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Nursing Service Cross

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Type
  
Medal

Post-nominals
  
NSC

Status
  
Discontinued

Established
  
18 October 1989

Eligibility
  
Members of the Australian Defence Force

Awarded for
  
Outstanding performance of nursing duties in both operational and non-operational situations

The Nursing Service Cross (Post-nominal letters NSC) was a decoration (medal) of the Australian Honours System. The NSC was awarded for outstanding performance of nursing duties in both operational and non-operational situations.

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The NSC replaced the Royal Red Cross in the Imperial honours system for recognising nursing personnel.

Description

  • The NSC is a four-stepped sterling silver cross ensigned with the Crown of St Edward. The obverse bears a transparent red enamel cross insert overlaid on a flecked pattern radiating from the centre of the medal.
  • The medal has a sterling silver suspender bar.
  • The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide, with a central red vertical band flanked by two wide white vertical bands and a further two thin vertical gold bands.

    • List of recipients

    There have been 28 recipients and 1 Bar since the NSC's establishment in 1989 until it was discontinued in 2007.

    References

    Nursing Service Cross Wikipedia
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