Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Miscellaneous Nursing Insignia.
A small selection of Nursing insignia, including Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service cape badge, silver (2), together with two related miniature awards, one in silver the other bronze; Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve cape badge, silver; Queen Alexandra’s Military Families Nursing Service cape badge, silver, together with the related miniature award; British Red Cross Society War Service 1914-18 Medal, bronze; Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B230776’; Volunteer Medical Service Medal, with two Additional Award Bars (Miss Alice Hunt); two Queen Mary Nursing Guild Badges, gilt and enamel, one with clasps for 1916, 1917, and 1918; a Royal Star and Garter Home Nurses Badge, bronze and enamel, the reverse named ‘Dorothy Hutchinson Dec. 1939’, in fitted case; and a Belgian Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze and enamel; together with a St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘41068 Charles S. Priddle’, with 25 date clasps for 1912-1916 and 1919-1938 inclusive ,the reverse all engraved ‘141068’, generally good very fine £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Female Medics.

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Silver War Badge no. B230776 was awarded to Staff Nurse T. E. Docwra, Territorial Force Nursing Service.

Sold with a large quantity of postcards, photographs, newspaper cuttings, and other nursing related ephemera, including photographs of the Boer War Hospital Ship Princess of Wales.