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13 October 2021

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№ 243

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13 October 2021

Hammer Price:
£300

Six: Attributed to Miss L. Schofield, Territorial Army Nursing Service

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Miss L. Schofield, 141 Malton Road, Pitsmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire’, and forwarded onto ‘German Hospital, Dalston, London E8’; together with the recipient’s Territorial Army Nursing Service cape badge; and a a Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps lapel badge, all mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (8) £60-£80

Miss L. Schofield trained as a nurse at the German Hospital, Dalston, London, and joined up as a member of the Territorial Army Nursing Service. In 1940 she was transferred to the Cairo Hospital to nurse British 8th Army wounded, and proceeded with the 8th Army to Italy. She then transferred to north-west Europe, to perform a similar role with the 7th Armoured Division.

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