FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MEDAL: documents

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There are a least four different types of documents for Florence Nightingale Medal.

First type was introduced in 1920. Thanks to our colleague Dieter3 we have an opportunity to examine this fist type of document in color.

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Doc

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Doc close up

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And here we have document from the same 1920 vintage, but issued for another lady.

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This type of document was in use (at least) until early 1960s. Although a small color addition was made later (I don’t know exactly when) – two flowers in the corners of the document became painted red and some red color was added to decorative ornament. Here we have this second type document (from the collection of MedicalCorpsMuseum in St. Petersburg). Document was issued back in 1961.

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Next type was introduced in early 1990s (most probably in 1991) and exists in two variations. Here we have a nice opportunity to look at third type of document issued in 2010 for Ms Joyce Hood (New Zealand). Unfortunately not very clear photo of document.

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Fortunatly we have another photo of the document that was issued in 2009 for Ms Meredith Buck.

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And here we have document and award that were issued in 2011 to Ukrainian nurse Ludmila Alexsandrovna Vlasova.

This is the latest, forth type of document.

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Doc and award close up

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Ludmila Alexsandrovna Vlasova

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Same text, same Florence Nightingale engraving (made after famous picture), but different orientation of the text, different fonts with different colors.

Well to top it off – interesting official translation of the text of original document into Russian that was made in 1967 (original document was issued on the name Irina Ivanovna Klykova).

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Klykova