Nora Kathleen Fletcher medals and decorations awarded for service during the war, 1914-1919

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1914-1919

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Objects - 8 medals with ribbons - diam. 6.3 cm. or smaller

Australian nurse working in England, she served during World War I in-charge of the first batch of Red Cross nurses to arrive in France 1914, and as Principal Matron of the British Red Cross in France, 1915-1919 -- ML 1888/67

ITEM 01
Royal Red Cross 1915

ITEM 02
Serving Sister, The most venerable order of St. John of Jerusalem, 1916

ITEM 03
Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise

ITEM 04
Commander of the British Empire 1919 with purple ribbon

ITEM 05
Set of medals of Nora Kathleen Fletcher 1914-1919

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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Notes on medals filed at PXn 913, Original Materials Reading Room, Mitchell Library
Related manuscript material (Nora Kathleen Fletcher papers, 1914-1948) Location Number: ML MSS 1546 Mitchell Library

Reference Source: Ribbons and medals: the world's military and civil awards / Capt. H. Taprell Dorling. London : George Phillip, 1974. Location Number: REF N737.2/20 General Reference Library