Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal (Airwoman) D. E. Nunn, Royal Canadian Air Force

War Medal 1939-45, in silver; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, together with identity discs (2) to ‘CAN W306205 Airwoman D. E. Nunn, R.C.A.F.’, and discharge and R.C.A.F. Reserve lapel badges, extremely fine (6)

Daisy Eileen Nunn entered the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Laboratory Assistant in 1942, direct from her employment at the Banting Institute. A graduate of Toronto University, she was granted a quick release from service at the war’s end, at the special request of her former employer, her work in the field of microbiology and, more specifically, in cutting-edge penicillin therapy, being urgently required.

Sold with a good quantity of original documentation, including R.C.A.F. papers, in addition to further documents appertaining to her husband, James Hinton, himself a former member of the R.C.A.F.; also invitations for them to attend garden parties at Government House in June 1965 and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh in July 1974.