Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, obverse with partially clothed man and woman together with a naked skeletal figure; reverse: ‘N.U.W.S.S. 1914 Scottish Women’s Hospitals’, 32mm., bronze, with original plaid silk ribbon; John Pinches fitted case of issue; and small paper enclosure certificate, inscribed ‘Medal conferred by the Committee of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals on Miss Edith Palliser in recognition of her valuable services’, reverse of certificate inscribed ‘This symbolic medal was designed by Miss Hazel Armour and represents the work of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. A kneeling woman draws towards her a wounded man, and shields him from the grim figure of death, intent on dealing a fatal blow’, extremely fine £200-250

N.U.W.S.S: National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.