Nunquam Non Paratus, Early Professional Nursing/Midwifery Badge Liverpool Maternity.

A Bronze pendant badge which I believe was an early Privately purchased generic Nursing/Midwifery badge.These appear to have been bought by Nurses across a range of Hospitals which did not issue their own badges.Many were then engraved with the either the initials of the nurse or details of the training hospital,as in this case.They have been identified with date ranges from circa 1905 to the 1920s.They are found in two sizes and this is the smaller of those.
The shield shaped badge bears an image of Florence Nightingale with her lamp and a feeding cup.The motto Nunquam Non Paratus-Never Unprepared.This is suspended from a plain bronze pin back bar.The rear is engraved for Janet Irvine Dryden,Trained Liverpool Maternity Hospital Brownlow Hill.This may be Janet Dryden who was registered with the CMB on February 17 1913? Height 57mm

Code: 51332