Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nursing Badges awarded to Miss Catherine M. Jamieson, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Cape Badge, silver; General Nursing Council for England and Wales Badge, silvered and enamel, reverse engraved ‘C. M. Jamieson S.R.N. 173376 25.8.50’; Royal College of Nursing Badge, silver and enamel, reverse numbered ‘58943’; St. Giles Hospital Camberwell Badge, bronze, reverse engraved ‘C. M. Jamieson 1914.’; Civil Nursing Reserve Badge, silver and enamel generally very fine and better (5) £60-80

Catherine Matilda Jamieson was born in Faversham, Kent, on born 7 March 1885, and trained at the Camberwell Workhouse Infirmary, from May 1911 to October 1914. Thereafter she had worked as a fever nurse, probably at the Western Hospital, Seagrove Road, Fulham, before applying to join the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve in March 1915. Posted to the Council Schools Military Hospital Aylesbury in May 1915, she went on sick leave in November 1915, and was admitted to Vincent Square - the Nurses’ Hospital. In February 1916 she was granted a further two months’ sick leave, and having undergone a medical in May 1916 she was retired on health grounds, suffering Valve Disease of the Heart. Recovering, she was passed fit for general service in April 1918, and was posted to the 2nd London General Hospital, where she served for the rest of the Great War. She died in Canterbury, Kent, in 1967.

Note: The Camberwell Workhouse Infirmary became St Giles Hospital Camberwell in 1927, suggesting that the badge with Jamieson’s name and training date on it was purchased retrospectively.

Sold together with Civil Defence enclosure for the Civil Nursing Reserve Badge.