A South African Nurse's Second World War Italy Campaign medal group  of 4: Senior Probationary Nurse Winifred E. Sweet, South African Military Nursing Service

- The 1939-1945 Star. No clasp (316612 W. E. Sweet) 
- The Italy Star (316612 W. E. Sweet) 
- War Medal 1939-45 (316612 W. E. Sweet) 
- Union of South Africa: Africa Service Medal (316612 W. E. Sweet) 

The medals are all Pretoria Mint struck issues, the medals with identically impressed South African naming

The recipients unique Army Number is from the block 316438-317437 that was allocated for issuance sequentially to recruits posted to the South African Military Nursing Service

Winifred Edna Sweet (nee Chisholm), daughter of Roderick Chisholm (a native born Scot) and Catherine Chisholm (nee Taaffe, a native born Irish woman), was born in South Africa in 1918. Winifred is recorded to have married Reginald Philip Sweet on 25 December 1944. Winifred was appointed a Probationer Nurse in the South African Military Nursing Service in 1941, and was promoted to Senior Probationer Nurse on 1 January 1944. She served with No. 107 General Hospital during the Second World War in the Middle East in 1944, and in Italy in 1944-45. Winifred Edna Sweet is recorded to have died at Clan William Western Cape, South Africa on, 26 August 1993

See item code for the recipients 'Father-in-Law' World Wars medal group of seven medals awarded to Sergeant Wilfred Sweet, late South African Army Medal Corps & St. John Ambulance Brigade of South Africa that are being sold separately

All South African Military Nursing Service medals for overseas service that include campaign service are scarce seen

Condition: About EF

Code: 25964