Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Staff Nurse Emily Bleazby, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse E. Bleazby.) very fine (2) £70-£90

Miss Emily Bleazby was born at Ballinacurra House, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland, on 24 May 1881, and trained at the Royal Infirmary, Bristol, 1908-11. She joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 25 June 1915, and served during the Great War in Malta and in the Hospital Ship Oxfordshire.

Miss Bleazby was subsequently Sister Tutor at Lambeth Hospital, and authored, along with A. Millicent Ashdown, a textbook for nurses entitled ‘Anatomy, Physiology, & Hygiene’, first published in 1935, and reprinted and revised several times into the 1950s. She was the last member of the Bleazby family to reside at Ballinacurra House, and died in 1967.

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