Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Staff Nurse Hilda I. North, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, New Zealand Expeditionary Force

British War and Victory Medals (22/470 S/Nurse H. I. North. N.Z.E.F.) good very fine (2) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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Hilda Irene North was born on 25 December 1899, the daughter of the Reverend North of Market Rasen, Lincoln. She trained as a nurse in Wellington, New Zealand, and took her first appointment at the Otaki Sanatorium with the New Zealand Public Health Department. Appointed Staff Nurse in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service in January 1918, she was taken on the strength of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service (Headquarters) and sent to Egypt, arriving for duty at No. 27 General Hospital in Cairo on 11 March 1918.

She later worked aboard the Hospital Ship Valdivia from 4 November 1918 to 3 February 1919, before spending a further two months back in Cairo. Returned home per Hospital Ship Devon from Suez to New Zealand, she was struck off strength and placed on Reserve on 22 July 1919.

Sold with copied Service Record.