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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 373

The Gold Medal awarded to Nurse M. M. Snape, for her tireless work

Gold Medal for all round Excellence of Work & Conduct (Nurse. M.M. Snape), gold marks for 9 carats, with Johnston's of Grange case of issue, good very fine

Margaret Myfanny (Peggy) Snape was born at Salford, Lancashire on 28 December 1922, the daughter of Alfred and Minnie Snape. Snape served for three years at the Hope Hospital, Salford during which she displayed a quality of care and commitment that she was awarded the Ingleby gold medal. This award was presented to the most successful nurses who had completed three years of training at Hope Hospital. After the war Snape married Ronald Leo Ward at Salford in the winter of 1949, and lived at 5 Mayfield Terrace, Grange-Over-Sands, Anglesey. She died on 6 December 2013; sold together with extracts from the British Journal of Nursing, census data and handwritten research.

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£260

Starting price
£130