Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A scarce Great War group of three to Senior Nursing Sister E. M. Cunningham, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India, who served in the Hospital Ship Takada

1914-15 Star (Nurs: Sister E. M. Cunningham. H.S. Takada.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Sen. Nursing Sister E. M. Cunningham.) mounted as worn, generally good very fine (3) £180-£220

Ethel Mary Cunningham joined the Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India on 2 October 1903 and was appointed a Senior Nursing Sister on 12 December 1915.

The S.S. Takada was requisitioned as a hospital ship in August 1915 and was paid off in April 1919.