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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 347

Pair: Senior Nurse G. N. Reynolds, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, who married a Canadian Serviceman she met while nursing, later emigrating to Canada to live with him

British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse G. N. Reynolds.), good very fine

Gladys Naomi Reynolds was born at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in January 1887, the daughter of Edward and Eva Reynolds. Working as a Governess at Spring Hill Farm, Milton-Under-Wychwood in 1911 she later trained at The London Hospital, Whitechapel as a Staff Nurse, leaving on 6 March 1916 and enlisting with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 13 June 1916. Posted first to Tidworth Military Hospital on 22 June 1916 before entering the war in Egypt in August 1917 and joining 17 Military General Hospital at Alexandra on 14 September 1917. Transferring to 68 General Hospital in October 1917 Posted to Palestine in April 1918 she served at 21 General Hospital until being returned to the Reserve in 23 June 1916. After the war Reynolds married Francis Clifford Armstrong, a Canadian soldier, in the Summer of 1919 at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, she later emigrated to Canada; sold together with copied service records, M.I.C. and handwritten research.

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£150

Starting price
£50