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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 935

Pair: Compounder F. Haq, Civilian Medical Department and Indian Hospital Corps

India General service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Compounder Fazal Haq. Civ. Med. Dept.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (Compounder Fazal Haq Ind Hospt. Cps), engraved naming, good very fine (2)


The role of a compounder was to create medication. During the Second World War, the lack of nurses in Indian hospitals meant that the care of patients was in practice provided by relatives and semi-trained personnel holding a series of titles, including ward boys, orderlies, sweepers, compounders and ayah. Many of these caregivers were men (Indian Sisters: A History of Nursing and the State, 1907-2000, refers), such as Compounder Fazal Haq.

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£350

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