Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Nursing Sister Elizabeth F. Easley, South African Military Nursing Service

British War Medal 1914-20 (N/N. P/N. E. F. Easley - S.A.M.N.S.); War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, these both officially impressed ‘254468 E. F. Easley’, the BWM a somewhat later issue, minor edge nicks, good very fine and better (3) £60-£80

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

View
Collection

Elizabeth Florence Easley was born in Cape Province on 14 November 1882. She attested at Wynberg for the South African Military Nursing Service on 31 December 1916, and was posted as Probationary Nurse to Wynberg Hospital soon thereafter. Discharged on 1 May 1918, she took her nursing studies in the 1920s and returned to service as Nursing Sister at Valhalla Military Camp Hospital on 31 December 1940. Transferred to Middleberg in October 1941 and Lenz in August 1943, she ended her second period of service at Wynberg Military Hospital on 28 November 1946.

Sold with the recipient’s copied Military Service Record which notes application for her Second World War medals in 1946; her BWM was not dispatched until February 1955, by which time she was over 70 years of age.