Rainhill Hospital/County Hospital Whiston RMN/SRN Male Nurse group of four badges.

A group of four badges awarded to the same Male Nurse for his training as first a Registered Mental Nurses and later a State Registered Nurse in the 1940s.
These consist of a base metal badge for Rainhill Mental Hospital,Prescot,Lancs. It features a Cross Pattee with rose of Lancashire to the centre. Some scratches to the red painted finish but pin and clasp intact.Makers mark for Thomas Fattorini Ltd Regent Street Birmingham.Unnamed to rear. This is accompanied by a silver and enamel badge for the Royal Medico Psychological Association. Responsible to setting the training and examinations for Mental Nurse training until this later became the sole responsibility of the GNC it maintained its own registers. This has a buttonhole fixing and is engraved for S Pennington 40288.Silver hallmarks for WD&S (William Dingley & Sons) Birmingham 1938.
The next item is a silver and enamel badge for the County Hospital Whiston. In excellent condition with pin clasp and safety roller catchall good. It is named to Sidney Pennington 1946-1950.Silver hallmarks for F&S Birmingham 1950.
This is accompanied by a chrome badge for the General Nursing Council for England & Wales. Once again it has a button hole fixing and is named to S Pennington SRN 178112 15.12.50.
The four badges all relate to Sidney Pennington born 29/12/07. He is showing the GNC registers as having gained his RMPA Certificate in 1939 and later registering this with the GNC becoming RMN 10547 on 23/04/1948. He doesn't appear to have purchased a badge for this qualification or had had it added to his later SRN badge(presumably because of the extra cost?) He later went on to complete his SRN training at the County Hospital Whiston.
He appears to have lived in the same house in Forrester Avenue St Helens from the 1930s through to his death in 1984,

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