India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Matron M. Hilson, Q.A.M.N.S.I.) extremely fine and rare £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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‘Assistant Lady Superintendent. King George’s Hospital, Lucknow, U.P., India.- Miss Mabel Hilson has been appointed Assistant Lady Superintendent. She was trained at the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, and Park Fever Hospital, Hither Green, and has the following experience of nursing in India:- Theatre and Ward Sister at the Walker Hospital, Simla, and Theatre and Ward Sister at St George’s Hospital, Bombay. She holds the certificate of the Central Midwives Board.’ (The British Journal of Nursing, 20 September 1913, refers). She is also entitled to British War and Victory Medals which her m.i.c. states were ‘Issued in India’.