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English: ID number: A04728

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Pearl Corkhill was one of only eight nurses to receive a Military Medal (MM) for bravery in the First World War. Serving at the 38th (British) Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front she was awarded the MM for coolness and presence of mind where during a heavy German air raid on the Station on 27 July 1917 “she continued to attend to the wounded without any regard to her own safety, though enemy aircraft were overhead.” Sister Corkhill was not notified until July 1918 that she had received the award. She wrote to her mother:
Today word came that I had been awarded the MM. Well the C.O. sent me over a bottle of champagne and they all drank my health and now the medical officers are giving me a dinner in honour of the event. I can’t see what I’ve done to deserve it but the part I don’t like is having to face old George and Mary to get the medal. It will cost me a new mess dress, but I suppose I should not grumble at that–I’m still wearing the one I left Australian in.
In the end Corkhill returned to Australia on 25 January 1919 without visiting Buckingham Palace to receive her award. The medal was finally posted to her in 1923. It is now held in the Memorial’s collection.
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