Special Collections

Sold between 7 March & 22 September 2006

3 parts

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The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick

David Riddick

Lot

№ 42

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6 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£450

Six: Sister F. L. Sands, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister L. Sands), note only one initial; 1914-15 Star (Sister, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with letter ‘a’, unnamed, lacks brooch bar; Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Cape Badge, unnamed, hallmarks for Birmingham 1915, first with slight edge bruise, very fine (6) £320-380

Nursing Sister L. Sands, Army Nursing Service Reserve, was on the strength of 13 Station Hospital, Kimberley; she subsequently served in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.