Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major A. Summers, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Army) and Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (23127618 Pte. A. Summers. RAMC.); Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1984, with one Additional Award Bar, the reverse officially dated 1991, with integral top riband bar; Malaysia, Federation, Pingat Jasa Malaysia, mounted court-style as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted; together with a group of three unofficial medals, comprising National Service 1939-60, unnamed; General Service Cross, silver (Maj. A. Summers. RAMC.) privately engraved to reverse; Voluntary Service Medal (Major A. Summers. TD. RAMC. (V).) privately named, mounted as worn; together with the corresponding miniature medals, these similarly mounted; and a further group of full-size commemorative medals, comprising On Active Service Medal, 1 clasp, Malaya, gilt (Major A. Summers RAMC (V)) privately named to obverse; For National Service Medal, silver (Major A. Summers. RAMC (V).) privately named; Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee 2002 , 1 clasp, Army, gilt (Major A. Summers. RAMC (V).) privately named; Eastern Service Medal for Eastern and Asiatic Service, unnamed; The Orderly Medal (Verzorgingsmedaille), with Vierdaagse Nijmegen brooch bar, unnamed; Nijmegen Cross, gilt, with No. 4 insignia and 4-Daagse Nijmegen brooch bar, unnamed, the first three mounted as worn, the remainder mounted from original wearing pins, nearly extremely fine (lot) £160-£200

Alfred Summers was born in 1934 and witnessed initial service with No. 34 Company, Royal Army Medical Corps from 24 March 1954 to 1 November 1956. Posted overseas during the Malayan Emergency, he treated the sick and wounded who were engaged in operations against communist guerillas in Malaya and Singapore. Returning home to England, Summers qualified at Broadgreen Hospital (Liverpool) as a Registered Nurse of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales on 29 March 1961, and was subsequently appointed to the Queen’s Roll having completed training in District Nursing on 10 September 1964. He was later awarded the Territorial Decoration and Second Award Bar whilst serving in Queen’s Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, before taking his retirement on 4 June 1995.

Sold with a large archive of original documentation, including Broadgreen Hospital Training School for Nurses Certificate; N.H.S. District Nursing Certificate; City & Guilds Advanced Management for Care Certificates (3), Liverpool Community College (1992); Queen’s Institute of District Nursing letters forwarding the recipient’s Queen’s Nurse’s badge and stating his number as ‘30542’; General Nursing Council correspondence; Buckingham Palace Garden Party invitation and ticket, 1981; Regimental Ball invitation, 208 (Merseyside) General Hospital, R.A.M.C. (V)., dated 3 March 1984; with 14 colour photographs of the recipient whilst a serving member of the Territorial Army, including mess dinners and commemorative events.