General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (S. Nurse S. M. Colvin. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.) edge nick, otherwise nearly extremely fine and rare to unit £200-£240

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2012 (when sold alongside the recipient’s British War Medal).

One of only 33 General Service Medals with the clasp Iraq awarded to Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve.

Miss Sarah Macintosh Colvin was born in Elgin on 22 March 1891 and trained at the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen from 1 March 1914 to 28 February 1917. She joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 28 April 1917, and served with them during the Great War as a Staff Nurse in Mesopotamia from June 1918 (also entitled to a British War and Victory Medal pair). She subsequently served with the Indian Military Nursing Service from 1923 to 1924.

Sold with copied research, including a copy of the article ‘The Army and RAF General Service Medal between the Wars: Awards to Service Nurses’, by N. G. Gooding, published in the OMRS Journal, September 2008, which states that only 16 of the George V General Service Medals awarded to Service Nurses are known to exist.