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Clara Edwards Cherry - Papers, 1916 - 1920

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  • Description

    Item 1 -- Citation for Mentioned in Despatches issued to Sister Miss C.E. Cherry, Army Nursing Service, dated 16 March 1916.

    Item 2 -- Certificate of service (380 mm x 460 mm) issued to 22/67 Sister Clara Edwards Cherry, dated 29 July 1919. [FRAGILE]

    Item 3 -- Memorandum from Lieutenant-Colonel C.E. Andrews, General Headquarters, Wellington, to Miss C.E. Cherry, Auckland, regarding the wearing of the emblem denoting being Mentioned in Despatches, dated 24 August 1920. (typescript; 1 leaf)

    Item 4 -- Newspaper obituary for Clara Edwards Cherry. [no date]

  • Other Id

    1927 (Presto content ID)

    MS-823-2 (Reference Number)

    21183 (DBTextworks system ID)

    76/87 (Registration number)

  • Department

    Manuscripts

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    manuscript

  • Name/Title
    Clara Edwards Cherry - Papers, 1916 - 1920
  • Primary Maker

     Sister Clara Cherry

  • Date
    1916-1920
  • Physical Description

    1 folder (4 items)

  • Level of Current Record
    Parent
  • Related Object Notes
    Cenotaph database record.
  • Subject Notes
    Clara Edwards Cherry was a nursing sister with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, 1NZEF. She died in 1965, in Auckland, aged 82.
  • Credit Line
    Presented by Mr Ronald Edwyn Adams, 1976.
  • Last Update
    22 Nov 2023
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