Cape features more than 300 thank-yous for nurse Carey

The front page of ATG No 2558 featured a Second World War nurse’s cape decorated with an array of cloth regimental badges that sold at Essex auction house Sworders in August last year.

That example took £4500, showing the demand for these very personal and evocative items.

A year l…

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