The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lord Forster,Governor General of Australia (right), presenting the Military Medal to Staff Nurse Pearl Corkhill at a medal investiture ceremony. Nurse Corkhill received the award for her courage and presence of mind when the British Army's No. 38 Casualty Clearing Station, to which she was temporarily attached, was twice bombed by enemy aircraft in 1918-07.
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill was born in 1887 at Tilba Tilba, New South Wales, and undertook nursing training at 'Burilda' private hospital
1914-15 Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details. Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill was born in 1887 at Tilba Tilba, New South Wales, and undertook nursing training at 'Burilda' private hospital in S
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill was born in 1887 at Tilba Tilba, New South Wales, and undertook nursing training at 'Burilda' priv
Military Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details. Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill was born in 1887 at Tilba Tilba, New South Wales, and undertook nursing training at 'Burilda' private
Cutwork linen supper cloth embroidered in white cotton, with a central fourteen sided motif secured to the main body of the cloth with evenly spaced buttonhole stitched bars. A smaller octagonal shape
Portrait of Staff Sister Pearl E. Corkhill MM, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), of Tilba Tilba, NSW. Awarded the Military Medal, 28 August 1918, aged 31. Corkhill had been transferred to No. 38
