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This photograph is a trip down memory lane.....................
My maternal Grand Mother served in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service from 1916 to 1920. In 1918 she served in the Royal Naval Hospital Bighi - Malta. She was then Sister Lillian Coates.
The picture contains 2 photographs of her at that time, her uniform collar badges and her belt buckle.
The shell case is a 3pdr from 1917 and is engraved with her name and all the hospitals that she served in during and after WWI.
She was the only one of my Grand Parents that I knew, the others having died before I was born in 1949.
The Maltese 5/- note was reproduced from one I found on the web from 1918. At that time British currency was also legal tender in Malta.
