Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing badge
Maker and role
J Gaunt (b.1884, d.1991): Medal/badge smith
Production date
Unknown
Description
Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing badge with 1944 bar (N0 33843), belonging to Miss M T C Smith.
Collection Type
Objects
Media/Materials
History
Issued from 1914-1968. Proficiency Badges were awarded in the following areas of Red Cross work: First Aid, Nursing, Hygiene & Sanitation, Cookery, Administration and Organisation, Tuberculosis Course, Infant and Child Welfare, First Aid in Chemical Warfare, Anti-Gas training, Air Raid Precautions Training, Civil Defence, Welfare Services, Hospital Librarianship and Maternal & Child Welfare. In order to receive a proficiency badge, the member needed to complete three successive Red Cross certificates in the appropriate subject. Certificates acquired through other approved examining bodies could count towards the award.
Catalogue Number
762/2/1