Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Four: Major P. M. Wright, Royal Army Medical Corps
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, all privately inscribed, ‘Major P. M. Wright’, together with a quantity of R.A.M.C. badges and buttons, good very fine

Pair: Nursing Sister Miss Marie Lever, later Mrs. Wright, Territorial Army Nursing Service
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with a quantity of Girl Guides’ and nursing badges, several of them named; and a pair of belt brooches, extremely fine (lot) £40-£50

Philip Miall Wright, the son of Doctor Joseph Farrall Wright, was born in Bolton, Lancashire, on 17 March 1907, and qualified as a Doctor in London in 1936. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 3 November 1939 and served during the Second World War at 38th British General Hospital, South East Asia Command. He married Nursing Sister Marie Lever while employed at Bolton Royal Infirmary after the War, and died in Keighley, Yorkshire, in March 1981.