THE MILITARY MEDAL FOR WOMEN.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 926, 29 January 1917, Page 4

THE MILITARY MEDAL FOR WOMEN.

In the lists published in the "London Gazette" of September ]) of non-com-missioned officers and men, who have received the military medal for bravery in the field, appear the names of six women, live of whom are nurses who have be<ju wounded in France:—Miss Mabel Tunloy, matron, mentioned in dispatches in February, 1915, and awarded the Royal Red Cross in January, 1916; Miss Ethel Hutchinson (trained at the London Hospital); Miss Jean S. Whyte (trained at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow); Miss Nora Easby ami Miss Beatrice Allsop (St. Thomas's Hospital). -The sixth, Lady Dorothy Feilding, daughter of the Karl of Denbigh, has driven an ambulance in the Monro Corps, and attended the wounded tor over a year with marked devotion to duty and contempt for danger. It is (he first time that women have received this decoration.