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Article: Lusitania nurse's medals for auction.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 11, 2003
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Byline: Chris Bentley and Claire Watkins
A RARE pair of medals awarded to a woman who died in one of the world's most famous shipping tragedies are set to fetch up to pounds 6,000 at auction in London next Friday.
Anna Enderson, 40, a nursing matron from Bootle, drowned when unarmed British ship the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915.
Now the Norwegian-born widow's British and Mercantile Marine war medals have surfaced at London-based auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb. Also in the lot is a bronze memorial plaque engraved with her name and bearing the message: ``She died for freedom and honour''.
Rachel Mulhearn, ...