Edward Ashby Fardon,Middlesex Hospital,Nurses Prize Medal

A scarce Nurses prize medal from the Middlesex Hospital.The medal bears the name of Edward Ashby Fardon, a previous Resident Medical Officer at the hospital.The medal bears an image of the doctor with Edward Ashby Fardon RMO 1879 1907 around the edge.This is suspended from a rather grubby but original silk ribbon in white, pale blue and navy blue.It hangs from a bronze pin back bar brooch with Middlesex Hospital on it. The rear bears a shield which features the arms and motto of the Hospital "MIseris Succurrere Disco" meaning "I Learn (or Endeavour) to succour the unfortunate". below this is a scroll with the name Margaret D Exley 1930,presumably the recipient.She is shown on the GNC Register as having trained at the Middlesex from 1927-1930.Height 36mm Drop 85mm

Code: 52784