Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sister C. Barraclough, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn; Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. Medal, all unnamed as issued, together with a General Nursing Council for England and Wales lapel badge, by Fattorini, Birmingham, silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1924, the reverse engraved, ‘C. Barraclough, S.R.N. 10995, 16-2-23’, pin-backed, and an Identity Bracelet with chain, bearing an enamelled Union Flag and engraved, ‘C. Barraclough, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R., B.1993’ and ‘France 1939’, slight contact marks, very fine and better (6) £60-80

Charlotte Barraclough trained as a nurse during 1914-17 at the Sheffield Royal Hospital and registered as S.R.N. No.10995 on 16 February 1923. Between the wars she worked at the Rotherham Isolation Hospital. In February 1940 she was in France on the staff of No.1 General Hospital, Dieppe. She was commissioned a Sister in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. on 30 May 1941. She appears in the 1946 Army List under the ‘Unemployed List’ section of the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.