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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 598

Sold by Order of the Recipient's Daughter

A rare example of the Queen's Badge of Honour and Certificate of Honour bestowed on Mrs. Christine Savory

Badge of Honour, E.II.R., oval bronze award, with 'Tanganyika' reverse, in its Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine; together with related Certificate of Honour, illuminated scroll with official seal, in the name of 'Mrs. Christine Savoury of Kigoma, Western Province', for 'the valuable services rendered by her to the Country and People of Tanganyika', and related forwarding letter from the Office of the Chief Secretary at Dar-es-Salaam, dated 29 March 1957 (Lot)

Christina Maclean Savory was born on 18 November 1909 on the Isle of Lewis. She attended the Nicholson Institute in Stornoway and later the Glasgow College of Domestic Science for her education, before training at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as a nurse and midwife. Following her marriage to B. W. Savory in 1944 she spend over 25 years in East Africa, clearly devoting her efforts in much the same way as her husband, evident in her unusual award of the Badge of Honour. She had two daugters, Frances, a Doctor who was tragically killed in a car accident in British Columbia and Fiona, an Investment Administrator who lives in London.

Also sold with a quantity of related nursing badges and documentation, including Register of Nurses Certificate in the name of 'Christina Maclean Murray', dated 27 July 1933, together with Central Midwives Board for Scotland certificate, and Edinburgh Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital certificate, dated 1 February 1934; General Nursing Council for Scotland Certificate of Registration as a General Nurse; corresponding silver hallmarked nursing badges with engraved naming (2), and B.E.U. badge by Pinches.

Please see Lot 597 for her husband's awards.



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Sold for
£950