- Object type
- Clothing and accessories
- Date
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Production: 20th century
In use: 1957 - Maker
- Woodrow & Sons
- Subject(s)
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Gender
Uniform - Associated person
- User: Lady Zia Wernher (1892 - 1977)
- Inscriptions
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By appointment to the late King George V. Woodrow Piccadilly London London Belfast Manchester Glasgow Liverpool Dublin
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 110 x 250 x 280mm
- Materials and technique
- Felted wool hat with ribbon and silk detailing and metal badge
- Physical description
- Black felted wool hat with brim turned up on left side, band of white corded ribbon with two narrow stripes of equal width, rosette of the same ribbon on turned up brim, County President's badge on rosette has been replaced with an area/corps/divisional president's badge; inner-lining edged with black silk ribbon; brown elastic chin strap; Milliner's insignia in gold ink on fabric patch on underside of hat.
- Production place
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Piccadilly
London
England - Themes
- Nursing Hats: Tracing Gender and Duty through Uniform
- Credit line
- Gift of Gina Phillips, Lady Kennard, 1995
- Catalogue number
- SJA3028
County President Lady Zia Wernher's hat
Lady Zia Wernher was a Russian-British aristocrat and thoroughbred racehorse owner; her horse Charlottown won the 1966 Epson Derby. Earlier in her life, she served as the County President of the St John Ambulance Brigade in Leicestershire during the Second World War. For this work, she was made an OBE in 1946, and later promoted to CBE in 1956.