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17 August 2021

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№ 311

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17 August 2021

Hammer Price:
£2,200

Three: Assistant Matron Miss Florence Winterborne, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

1914 Star (Miss F. Winterborne. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Asst. Matron F. Winterborne.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Gravesend Hospital for Nursing Award of Merit bronze medal, the reverse engraved ‘Florence Winterbourne [sic].’, with integral suspension bar, in Elkington, London, fitted case, good very fine (4) £240-£280

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916.

Miss Florence Winterborne was born in Belper, Derbyshire, on 6 December 1880 and trained at Gravesend Hospital from 1903-06. She enrolled in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve in 1912 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 August 1914. For her services during the Great War she was Mentioned in Despatches.