Admiralty Order in Council No. 190.

6 March 1902.

C.

Whereas Your Majesty was pleased by Your Majesty's Order in Council of the ninth day of February 1901, to approve of certain regulations for the Staff of Nursing Sisters in Naval Hospitals ;

And whereas Her Majesty Queen Alexandra has been pleased to intimate that it is Her gracious pleasure to assume the Presidency of this Staff;

We beg leave humbly to submit that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to approve of the same by Your Order in Council and that the Staff of Nursing Sisters be designated "Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service,"

We further humbly submit that the Nursing Sisters shall be entitled to wear on the prescribed uniform an embroidered badge consisting of a red Geneva Cross on a white ground in a gold border, and above, Her Majesty Queen Alexandra's Monogram, viz. : - two A's red interlacing an anchor and cable gold ; the whole surmounted by the Imperial Crown.

C. 3510 / 1902.

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