Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sister Francis Charles, Territorial Force Nursing Service

British War and Victory Medals (Sister); Territorial Force Nursing Service Cape Badge (2) silver, unnamed; College of Nursing Badge, silver and enamel, reverse numbered, ‘24636’, pin-backed, in case, extremely fine (lot) £140-180

With damaged named medal card boxes of issue; Sheffield Union Hospital Certificate of Efficiency, having completed four years nurse training, 1908-12; Central Midwives Board Certificate 1911; College of Nursing Certificate 1925 to ‘Francis Macdonald’; General Nursing Council for England and Wales certificates (2) for 1945 and 1950; posting tube, addressed to ‘Miss F. Charles, Union Hospital, Firvale, Sheffield’; letter of recommendation 31 March 1925; passport of Francis Charles, bearing photograph, stamped ‘Bombay 1919’; Central Midwives Board rules booklet; autograph book bearing water-colours, sketches, poems, etc; loose sketches executed by patients (6); loose water-colour; photograph album, ‘Around 1916 India & Ceylon’ with photographs; group photograph of nurses with recipient identified; portrait photograph of recipient; loose photographs (70+) mostly India related.