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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 166

(x) Four: Staff Nurse F. Fearnhead, Territorial Force Nursing Service, who served in Salonica and Italy

British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse F. Fearnhead.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (S. Nurse F. Fearnhead T.F.N.S.); Greece, Kingdom, Silver Medal of Honour of the Hellenic Red Cross, silver and enamel, very fine (4)

Approximately 227 Territorial Force War Medals 1914-19 to the Territorial Force Nursing Service.

Frances Fearnhead was born in October 1892 at Oldham, Lancashire. She studied at the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield between 1907-11. During the Great War she served at the 3rd Northern General Hospital from September 1914 and on Salonica from September 1916. Fearnhead joined 62nd General Hospital, a unit that arrived from Malta on Salonica in August 1917 and was transferred to Italy in November 1917. In Italy she worked under Matron Davidson-Woodhouse and was discharged in April 1919. Living at West Beach, Lytham, Lancashire, she finally resigned the Territorial Army Nursing Service in January 1937, being entitled to keep her Badge; sold together with a letter from the War Office dated 10 April 1922 confirming the sending of the T.F.W.M. riband and boxes for the Great War Medals, her Greek award remains unconfirmed.

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£400 to £600

Starting price
£320