Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sister Mary B. Lane, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Sister. M. B. Lane. Q.A.I.M.N.S.) good very fine (5) £80-£100

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

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Mary Bridget Lane took her nursing studies at the Cheshire Joint Sanatorium from 1935 to 1938, and registered as SRN No. 102179 on 26 January 1940. Appointed to a commission as Sister in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 3 March 1943, she was posted to Africa and taken on the strength of No. 99 British General Hospital in Algeria. She later transferred to Naples and Rome, ending her service with Middle East Command at No. 78 British General Hospital at Fayid in Egypt.