Lot 544
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Ten: attributed to Dame Sidney Browne, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, Egypt, undated, one clasp, Suakin 1885; Queen's South Africa, no clasp; King's South Africa, no clasp; British War Medal 1914-18; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911, silver; Khedive's Star 1884-86, mounted as worn; Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, silver; Florence Nightingale Medal, 14 x 8mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel; together with a full-size Territorial Force Nursing Service Medal, silver, good very fine and better, with two sets of riband bars, bearing ribands for the Order of the British Empire (Military) and Royal Red Cross and Bar (10)

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Ten: attributed to Dame Sidney Browne, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, Egypt, undated, one clasp, Suakin 1885; Queen's South Africa, no clasp; King's South Africa, no clasp; British War Medal 1914-18; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911, silver; Khedive's Star 1884-86, mounted as worn; Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, silver; Florence Nightingale Medal, 14 x 8mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel; together with a full-size Territorial Force Nursing Service Medal, silver, good very fine and better, with two sets of riband bars, bearing ribands for the Order of the British Empire (Military) and Royal Red Cross and Bar (10)
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Lot Essay

Dame Sidney Jane Browne, [G.B.E., R.R.C. and Bar], was born in 1850 and entered the Army Nursing Service in 1883. During the Egyptian War she served in the Suez Hospital and in the Sudan Campaign in the Hospital Ship Ganges. In the Second Boer War she was based at the 3rd General Hospital at Randebosch and the 23rd General Hospital at Springfontein. Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service from 1902 to 1906 and of the Territorial Army Nursing Service from 1907 to 1919, Browne was twice Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the R.R.C. and Bar in the Great War, a G.B.E., Military following in 1919.