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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 347

Pair: Nurse A. F. Catley, Indian Medical Department

British War Medal 1914-20 (T.-Nurse. A. F. Catley,); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Nurse A. F. Catley. I.M.D.), mounted as worn, minor official correction to unit, the second with minor edge bruise, good very fine and scarce (2)

Approximately 19 'Iraq' clasps to Nurses of the Indian Medical Department.

Ada Florence Catley was born in Bombay in November 1887, daughter of Thomas Pratt Catley, an Engine Driver and former soldier. She entered the prestigious Lawrence School at Ootacamund in October 1904. Catley then became a nurse in Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service, working at the military camp in Basra during the 1919-20 Iraq campaign. The state of Iraq had recently been formed by the League of Nations under a British mandate; Catley accompanied the 4th/8th Punjab Regiment as part of the occupying British force.

Catley subsequently worked at St. George's Hospital in Bombay and married Harry Alexander Milnes at Fort St. George, Madras on 29 September 1924; sold with copied MIC and medal roll confirmation, in addition to photographs and research.

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Sold for
£380