Warwickshire School of Nursing,Silver Enrolled Nurse Training Badge

A heavy silver and enamel Nurses badge from the Warwickshire School of Nursing.The oval badge features a central design of the Bear and ragged staff ,of Warwickshire,in enamel on a silver background.The school title is found in silver on a green enamel band to the edge.Very good condition.Pin,clasp and safety roller catch all good.Loop for safety chain .Silver hallmarks for EAW Birmingham 1985....  read more

Code: 54582

College of Nursing,silver Members badge

Another early College of Nursing members badge. Featuring the letters C and N in silver on a blue enamel background with the title The College of Nursing Founded MCMXVI (1916)around the rim.The Rose,Thistle,Leek and Shamrock emblems feature at each quarter.
To the rear it features the registration number of the design and the membership number 22981.These badges were first issued after 1...  read more

Code: 54581

Royal College of Nursing and National Council of Nurses of the United Kingdom,Silver Members Badge

A scarce model of a Royal College of Nursing members badge which was in use from 1963 to 1975.In silver and enamel,it features the crest of the college in a voided centre.The shield bears a sun and three stars symbolising day and night.This is topped by an open book and roman lamp symbolising learning and nursing.A red scroll at the base bears the latin Tradimus Lampada-We Pass on the Torch.The...  read more

Code: 54580

Highland Light Infantry, Nurses/Sweetheart Belt buckle and belt

Another unusual two piece buckle in pressed brass onto which the regimental badge of the Highland Light Infantry has been added in white metal.
I believe this to be a souvenir/sweetheart piece from around the time of the First World War.I have been told that such pieces were often gifted by soldiers to the nurses caring for them or their sweethearts and might carry the regimental badges...  read more

Code: 54579

Borocourt Hospital,Silver RNMD Nurses Badge

A scarce silver and enamel badge for training at the Borocourt hospital near Henley on Thames.The Boro was derived from the acronyms for the original Buckinghamshire,Oxfordshire, Reading and Oxford Authorities which it was to serve .Opened in the 1930s in Wyfold Manor House for the treatment and care of Learning disabilities Patients it closed in the 1990s.The site has now been redeveloped to ...  read more

Code: 54578

City General Hospital Sheffield , Silver Nurses Badge

A silver and enamel nurses badge from the City General Hospital ,Sheffield.It features a silver Geneva cross edged in blue enamel with a symbolic Nurses lamp of learning in the centre.The title City General Hospital Sheffield appears on a circular blue enamel scroll.Condition moderate with some loss of enamel to the blue border.Pin looks to be a replacement,clasp and safety roller catch are all...  read more

Code: 54577

Hull Royal Infirmary Training School for Nurses/ General Nursing Council For England & Wales,Silver pair of badges

A silver and enamel badge for the Hull Royal Infirmary Training School For Nurses.In lovely clean condition it features the twin shields bearing the three crowns of the city's arms and the cross of St George.These are above the title Hull Royal Infirmary in blue enamel.Training School for Nurses is in silver on a white enamel band to the edge. Pin and clasp good, safety chain in situ. Engraved...  read more

Code: 54575

Parkside Hospital Macclesfield, Silver Male RMN Nurses Badge

A nice silver and enamel mental nurses badge for the Parkside Hospital Macclesfield.Originally opened as the Second Cheshire County Asylum in 1841, it was renamed Parkside Hospital in 1948 upon joining the NHS.
The design has a shield with a sword with the three wheat sheaves of Cheshire, within a laurel wreath.The hospital title appears on a blue band around the edge. Very good conditio...  read more

Code: 54576

Ipswich Nurse Education Centre,Silver Nurses Badge

A silver and enamel nurses badge from the Ipswich Nurse Education Centre.It features a black ship with castles fore and aft from Ipswich's early arms.To this emblem a snake is added, entwined around the mast to form a Rod of Asclepius,the medical symbol.In good condition .The pin,clasp and safety roller catch are all good.Engraved to the rear M M Lord 1973.Hallmarked for Thomas Fattorini,Birmin...  read more

Code: 54574

Colonial Nursing Association, Africa General Service Medal -Nyasaland 1915,Nursing Sister Beatrice C Empson

An extremely rare group of badges and medal awarded to a Nursing sister who was co-opted into the Nyasaland Frontier Force during the Chilembwe Uprising in 1915.
Beatrice Charity Empson was born in 1869 in Northampton and trained at St Thomas' Hospital in London qualifying as a Nightingale Nurse in 1899. She gained her midwifery qualification from the London School of Obstetrics in 1904....  read more

Code: 54566