Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s Institute of District Nursing Badge, 1st Class for Distinguished Service to the Institute, by J. R. Gaunt & Son, London, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented by the Council with the approval of the Queen to Mercy Wilmshurst, General Superintendent, 1935’, 53 x 34mm., 9ct. gold, hallmarks for Birmingham 1935, complete with neck ribbon, in case of issue, good very fine, rare rank £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Prize, Training Ship, Nursing & Other Medals from the James N. Spencer Collection.

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Founded in 1887 as the Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses, its aim was promote the training of district nurses and to supervise the county and district nursing associations. It was renamed the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing in 1928 and the Queen’s Nursing Institute in 1973.