WW1 Pair to Staff Nurse Reynolds QAIMNSR.

A British war and victory medal, both correctly named to S. Nurse. G. N Reynolds.
Gladys Naomi Raynolds was born on 3rd December 1886, the daughter of a farmer from Spring Hill, Milton Under Wychwood, Oxford. She was educated at Clough School, Risegate and her nurse training at the London Hospital, Whitchaple from 1911. Here she was eventually employed as Staff Nurse of ward in charge of 40 beds. She left to serve with the Queen Alexandria’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve at Tidworth Military hospital in March of 1916 and served in Egypt and later Palestine from August 1917 until February 1919 with the 21st General Hospital in Alexandria and with the 87th G H.
The 21st British General Hospital, Ras-el-Tin, Alexandria, which was a barracks with a hospital caring for troops involved in the fighting in Sinai, Palestine and Mesopotamia. Along with wounds, nearly all medical cases belonged to five groups of diseases usually prevalent in British troops in warm countries: typhoid, jaundice, malaria, dysentery and mixed cases.
After the war, she married Lieutenant Francis C Armstrong of the Canadian Garrison Artillery and in 1923, with her husband emigrated to Canada, Francis being employed with the Royal Bank of Canada.
She probably had a very good life in Canada, but as a lot of women, she had to fight to get her medals, with many letters to the war office, she finally received her awards in 1932.
These medals are in very good original condition and come with a group of photographs of Gladys in Egypt and her QAIMNSR collar badges also included is her complete service papers and medal index cars, over 30 pages of research.

Code: 29873