Badge, New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association (Nurses)
Description
A New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association (nurses) badge. The silver badge bears a red enamelled cross and is surmounted by a crown. " N Z " flanks the crown. " RETURNED SOLIDERS / ASSOCIATION is also marked on the badge. "RGD 861" is also marked in small lettering on the badge.
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Object detail
Subject person
Classification
Credit line
This
badge
was
awarded
to
Mary
Ellen
Affleck,
a
daughter
of
Robert
and
Jessie
Affleck,
of
Opunake.
Mary
trained
as
a
nurse
and
embarked
as
a
nurse
with
the
New
Zealand
Army
Nursing
Service
Corps
during
World
War
I.
She
served
in
the
New
Zealand
General
Hospital
in
Cairo,
Egypt
and
in
the
General
Hospital
in
Brockenhurst,
England.
She
also
appears
to
have
served
on
hospital
transport
ships.
See:
Cenotaph
Database
record
at
Auckland
War
Memorial
Museum.
http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/34793.detail?keywords=Affleck%20Mary%20Ellen%20World%20War%20I,%201914-1918
Accession number
TM1999.286
Collection type
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