Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sister Miss J. N. Johnston, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn, very fine (5) £160-200

M.I.D. London Gazette 13 January 1944:
‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East.’

Miss Jane Nuttles Johnston was born in South Shields, Co. Durham, on 6 June 1899 and trained at Paddington Hospital. She was appointed a Sister in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 9 October 1939 and served firstly at No. 7 General Hospital from 17 October 1940, before going out to the Middle East on 9 March 1941, serving in Egypt, the Sudan, the Western Desert, Italy, Austria, and Germany. For her services in the Middle East, much of it spent with the 8th Army, she was Mentioned in Despatches. Her final posting was at the British Military Hospital in Hamburg. She relinquished her commission on 15 March 1954, and was granted the honorary rank of Sister.

Sold with the recipient’s Mention in Despatches Certificate, this glazed and framed, with War Office enclosures; Letter of congratulations on the ‘Mention’ from Katharine Jones, Matron-in-Chief, Q.A.I.M.N.S.; copied service records; and a large quantity of copied research.