Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant Jeanette M. Davies, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps

Defence Medal; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Lt. J. M. Davies. Q.A.R.A.N.C.) very fine (3) £80-£100

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

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Jeanette Mary Davies took her studies in nursing at the Fulham Hospital in London from 1933 to 1937 and was registered as SRN No. 87781 on 25 June 1937. Likely employed in civilian nursing during the Second World War, she was appointed to a commission as Lieutenant in Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps on 29 December 1950. Posted to the British Army of the Rhine in 1951 and Japan in late 1952, she was released from the service in September 1955.