Badge

• Reference:GB 1199 C915/B/4
• Dates of Creation:Apr 1943
• Name of Creator:
  Mary Evans (1915-1992), Nurse, Midwife, Health Visitor
• Physical Description:
  0.003m

• Scope and Content

  Blue, red and bronze coloured badge in the shape of a rose. At the centre is a coat of arms. Outside reads: “Withington Hospital.” On the back is engraved:

  Mary Evans

  April 1943

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Mary Baxter (nee Evans) was born in Greater Manchester on 19 Mar 1915. She gained her first qualification as a nurse in c.1940 in Greater Manchester. She registered as a nurse in Tasmania, Australia in 1941 and saw war time service in India and Egypt before returning to Manchester to train as a midwife at St. Mary’s Hospital, Newton Heath in 1946. In 1950, Evans travelled to Australia again to work as a nurse and she returned to Manchester in 1951 where she subsequently trained as health visitor. She retired from nursing and health visitor practice in 1969 due to ill health. Mary Baxter passed away in 1999.

• Access Information

  This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit.

• Conditions Governing Use

  Royal College of Nursing