Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (N. Sister P. Gill. Q.A.R.N.N.S.; N. Sister G. H. McCurdy. Q.A.R.N.N.S.) edge bruising to second, very fine and better (2) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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Phoebe Gill trained at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London and joined Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service as Nursing Sister on 7 June 1915. She served at the Royal Hospital, Haslar, and in Gibraltar, returning to the UK aboard the Marpha on 3 June 1919. She is later recorded in 1926 working as a nurse at the Royal Free Hospital.

G. H. McCurdy served as Nursing Sister from 1 June 1915 at the Royal Hospital, Haslar, and later tended to patients on the island of Malta.