Nursing Service Cross

The Nursing Service Cross (stylised NSC as post-nominal) is a conspicuous service decoration[note 1] of the Australian honours and awards system, instituted by Letters Patent[note 2] on 18 October 1989.[13]

Nursing Service Cross
Medal and ribbon
Awarded by Australia
Type	Medal (Decoration)[1]
Eligibility	Members of the Australian Defence Force[2]
Awarded for	Outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties, or for an act of exceptional dedication in the performance of such duties[3]
Status	Active (but nominations presently closed)[4]
Description	Four stepped sterling silver cross, with transparent red enamel cross insert, ensigned by Crown of Saint Edward, surmounted by a plain sterling silver suspender bar, and suspended on a gold edged white ribbon with deep red central bar[5]
Post-nominals	NSC[6]
Statistics
Established	18 October 1989[7]
First awarded	8 June 1992[8]
Last awarded	11 June 2007[9]
Total awarded	29[10]
Distinct recipients	28
Order of Wear
Next (higher)	Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC)
Next (lower)	Medal for Gallantry (MG)
Related	Royal Red Cross (RRC)

The Nursing Service Cross is awarded to medics (enrolled nurses) and nurses (registered nurses) of the Australian Defence Force for outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties,[note 3] or for an act of exceptional dedication in the performance of such duties, in warlike or non-warlike conditions.[15]

There have been 28 recipients, and 29 awards, since the Nursing Service Cross was instituted on 18 October 1989.[16] Jonathan Aharon Walter is the sole awardee to have received the Nursing Service Cross more than once, first in 2004, and then again in 2007 (when he was awarded a Bar to his existing Nursing Service Cross).[17]

The current Australian Army Command Sergeant Major – Forces Command, Warrant Officer Class One Kim Felmingham NSC OAM is also a Nursing Service Cross recipient.[18] As of March 2010, nominations for the award of the Nursing Service Cross were suspended by determination of the Chief of Defence Force.[19]

Design

The Nursing Service Cross is a four-stepped sterling silver equidistant straight armed cross, ensigned with the Crown of Saint Edward, surmounted by a plain sterling silver suspender bar.[20] The obverse (front of the medal) has a transparent red enamel cross insert, overlaid on a flecked pattern radiating from the centre of the cross.[21]

Reverse of Nursing Service Cross

The reverse (rear) of the Nursing Service Cross has a horizontal panel that displays the recipient’s details, superimposed on a design of fluted rays of varying lengths.[22]

The Nursing Service Cross is suspended on a 32 mm ribbon,[note 4] that has a central deep red band 12 mm wide, flanked by two white vertical bands 8 mm wide, and is edged in gold bands 2 mm wide.[24] The symbolism of the colours used on the ribbon for the Nursing Service Cross is that the gold represents the colour of sand, white represents purity, and the deep red colour used (which is the colour of a native sedge flower) is a link between a natural Australian colour and the red cross.[25]

Second and subsequent awards of the Nursing Service Cross are recognised by a sterling silver bar with a superimposed central 6mm wide red enamel cross insert, worn on the ribbon above the medal (and an 8 mm wide cross of red enamel worn centrally on the ribbon bar, and a half sized bar on the ribbon of the miniature cross).[26]

The miniature of the Nursing Service Cross is a half-sized replica of the cross, suspended from a miniature of the ribbon that is 16 mm wide.[27]

A lapel badge, being a 10 mm wide replica of the cross, is also provided to awardees.[28]

History

The award of medals for conspicuous conduct can be traced back to 1643 (potentially even earlier).[29] Before 18 October 1989, eligible Australian Defence Force (ADF) members could be awarded the Royal Red Cross under the Imperial honours system.[30] About 250 Australian nurses received one of the two classes of the Royal Red Cross between the Boer War and the Vietnam War.[31] The last time the Royal Red Cross was awarded in Australia,[note 5] which had never been intended as a specific award for Australian military nurses, was on 31 December 1981.[33]

Origin

When Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke came to power in 1983, he declared his government would no longer be making any recommendations for Imperial honours and awards.[34] On 26 January 1986, Hawke announced the intention to seek Letters Patent for a new military award to recognise outstanding operational and non-operational service by Australian Defence Force nurses, to be called the Australian Nursing Service Cross.[35] On 17 July 1986, the Australian Government announced a competition to design the Nursing Service Cross.[36] On 12 December 1986, the competition winners had their design concepts and ideas forwarded to qualified designers, sculptors and engravers for finalisation.[37]

On 18 October 1989, the Queen of Australia, Elizabeth II, issued Letters Patent instituting the Nursing Service Cross decoration.[38]

Suspension of new nominations

On 3 March 2010, the Nursing Service Cross (while it is still active as an award in the Australian honours and awards scheme) was closed to new nominations by determination of the Chief of Defence Force.[39] Awards to eligible defence members for outstanding devotion or exceptional dedication to nursing duties are now considered under the Order of Australia, Distinguished Service and Conspicuous Service awards criteria, as applicable.[40]

2017 commemorative coin

In 2017, the Royal Australian Mint produced for News Corp Australia a 20 cent non-circulating legal tender coin and card (241,744 produced) to commemorate the Nursing Service Cross, that was available from participating newsagents in April 2017.[41] The nickel plated copper coin had the following features:[42]

• Reverse – A representation of the Nursing Service Cross decoration, including suspender bar and ribbon. Positioned in the centre of a wreath at the bottom of the coin face is a representation of the St Edward's Crown. The design included the number '20' and the inscription 'NURSING SERVICE CROSS'.
• Obverse – An effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, together with the inscriptions 'ELIZABETH II', 'AUSTRALIA' and the inscription, in numerals, of the year 2017, as well as the initials of the coin's designer Ian Rank-Broadley 'IRB'.

List of recipients

There have been 28 recipients, and 29 awards, since the Nursing Service Cross was established on 18 October 1989.[43] Jonathan Aharon Walter is the sole awardee to have received the Nursing Service Cross twice, first in 2004, and then again in 2007 (when he was awarded a Bar to his existing Nursing Service Cross).[44]

Rank (at time of award)	Name	Post-nominals	Service	Date awarded	Citation	Notes
FLTLT	Amanda Banks	NSC	RAAF	26 January 2006	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the critical care Nursing Officer on Operation CATALYST within the USAF Theatre Hospital, 332nd Expeditionary Health Group, Balad, Iraq.	[45]
CAPT	Anne Frances Blundell	NSC	Army	26 January 1994	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia.	[46]
CAPT	Gregory Richard Brown	NSC	Army	12 June 2006	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the Second-in-Command of the Army Parachute Surgical Team and Officer Commanding Holding Company of the ANZAC Field Hospital deployed in support of Operation SUMATRA ASSIST.	[47]
SGT	Geoffrey Ian Cox	NSC	Army	11 June 2007	For an act of exceptional dedication in the performance of nursing duties as a member of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, Defence Co-operation Program – East Timor.	[48]
FLTLT	Stephen Michael Crimston	NSC	RAAF	17 October 2003	For outstanding devotion to duty and tireless work in the delivery of lifesaving care to the injured, and solace to their friends and relatives as a member of the Operation BALI ASSIST Aeromedical Evacuation Team, October 2002.	[49]
CPL	Daniel Troy Davidson	NSC	Army	26 January 2007	For acts of exceptional dedication in the performance of nursing duties as a member of Special Operations Task Unit 637.1 during Operation SLIPPER, Afghanistan 2005.	[50]
SSGT	Kim Felmingham	NSC, OAM[51]	Army	25 March 2000	For outstanding devotion and competency in providing medical treatment to vehicle accident casualties on 14 January 2000 while on Operation STABILISE in East Timor.	[52]
SQNLDR	Ann Teresa Harrison	NSC	RAAF	8 June 1992	For outstanding performance of nursing duties at No 3 RAAF Hospital.	[53]
CPL	Timothy John Hayden	NSC	Army	26 January 1995	For exceptional dedication and devotion to duty to the Australian Army, particularly following a motor vehicle accident near Paluda Camp in Malaysia on 23 September 1993.	[54]
FLTLT	Anna-Lisa Hernan	NSC	RAAF	12 June 2006	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties with the Royal Australian Air Force aeromedical evacuation team during Operation SUMATRA ASSIST.	[55]
WGCDR	Margaret Joy Hine	AM, NSC[56]	RAAF	26 January 2003	For outstanding achievement as the Commanding Officer of Number 6 Royal Australian Air Force Hospital, Royal Australian Air Force Williams, and as the Commanding Officer of the United Nations Military Hospital, Dili, East Timor.	[57]
SQNLDR	Elizabeth Anne Howell	NSC	RAAF	26 January 1998	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the Nursing Administrator at the No 3 Royal Australian Air Force Hospital, Richmond NSW.	[58]
PO	Adrian Leslie Leach	NSC	RAN	26 January 1997	For outstanding professionalism, expertise and devotion to duty while on board HMAS SWAN.	[59]
CPL	Sarah Ann Longshaw	NSC	Army	29 October 2004	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the Medical Assistant on Operation CATALYST with the Australian Army Training Team in Northern Iraq.	[60]
WO2	Alastair George Mackenzie	NSC	Army	11 June 2007	For an act of exceptional dedication in the performance of nursing duties as a member of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, Defence Co-operation Program – East Timor.	[61]
CAPT	Lewis Ritchie MacLeod	NSC	Army	25 November 1996	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the Operating Theatre Nursing Officer while serving with the Australian Medical Support Force in Rwanda.	[62]
CAPT	Jane Anne Mateer	NSC	Army	11 June 2007	For outstanding devotion and competency in nursing duties on Operation CATALYST at the United States Air Force Theatre Hospital, Balad, Iraq.	[63]
FLTLT	Helena Mary McDonnell	NSC	RAAF	14 June 1993	For conspicuous nursing service to the Royal Australian Air Force at No 3 RAAF Hospital.	[64]
CPL	Wayne Bradley McKenna	NSC	Army	25 March 2000	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of medical duties with the 1st Combat Service Support Team in East Timor.	[65]
CPO	Neil Michael Perrin	NSC	RAN	10 June 1996	For outstanding devotion to duty and competency as the senior health services member in HMAS HOBART.	[66]
CPL	Warren Mark Purse	NSC	Army	13 June 1994	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties while serving as a medical assistant with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia.	[67]
CPL	McQuilty Quirke	NSC	Army	26 January 2007	For exceptional dedication in the performance of nursing duties as the Regimental Aid Post Corporal Medic, B Squadron, the 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment.	[68]
FLGOFF	Catherine Anne Rafter	NSC	RAAF	26 January 1996	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties with the Australian Medical Support Force, Australian Contingent, United Nations Mission Assistance in Rwanda.	[69]
SQNLDR	Geoffrey Dean Robinson	NSC	RAAF	10 June 1996	For exceptional dedication to the RAAF in the field of nursing education	[70]
CAPT	Lorna Maria Todd	NSC	Army	26 January 1996	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties with the Australian Medical Support Force, Australian Contingent, United Nations Mission Assistance in Rwanda.	[71]
SGT	Lloyd Charles Tonkin	NSC	RAAF	14 June 1999	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Medical Assistant at the Health Services Flight, No 304 Air Base Wing, Edinburgh	[72]
PTE	Jonathan Aharon Walter	NSC	Army	14 June 2004	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties in warlike operations as the Medical Assistant/Nurse for Delta Company, AUSBATT VIII, whilst deployed on Operation CITADEL.	[73]
CPL	Jonathan Aharon Walter	NSC and Bar	Army	26 January 2007	For exceptional dedication in the performance of nursing duties as a member of Special Operations Task Unit 637.1 during Operation SLIPPER, Afghanistan 2005.	[74]
CPL	Marcus Wilson	NSC, BM[75]	Army	14 June 1999	For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the Medical Assistant for the Peace Monitoring Team Arawa during Operation BEL ISI, Bougainville.	[76]

See also

• Australian honours and awards system
• Australian Honours Order of Wearing
• Post-nominal letters (Australia)

Notes

1. A decoration is an award made for valour, gallantry, bravery, distinguished or conspicuous service, and is distinct from an honour in that it is not an appointment made to an order, like the Order of Australia.[11]
2. In Australia, Letters Patent are an official prerogative instrument of law making, made under the royal prerogative (which is that power of the Crown still existing and not superseded by parliamentary legislation), enabled by section 61 of the Australian Constitution. As the Sovereign has remained the font of "all honour and dignity" in Australia, the practice of instituting Australian honours and awards via Letters Patent continues, although in practice the role of the Sovereign is very limited, as Letters Patent are drafted by the government of the day and by convention the Sovereign is guided by the advice of that government to sign them, making the role taken by the Sovereign overwhelmingly symbolic.[12]
3. Nomination criteria excludes recognising immediate or short term paramedic and first aid care alone.[14]
4. Formally known as the riband.[23]
5. The last military nurses to be awarded the Royal Red Cross in Australia were Jane Greenslade (Navy), Pegeen Mallon (Air Force), Carol Ann O’Connor (Air Force), and Pamela Joy Wright (Army) on 31 December 1981.[32]

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39. Refer:
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45. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for FLTLT Banks, Amanda (RAAF)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 January 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the critical care Nursing Officer on Operation CATALYST within the USAF Theatre Hospital, 332nd Expeditionary Health Group, Balad, Iraq
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47. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for CAPT Brown, Gregory Richard (Army)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the Second-in-Command of the Army Parachute Surgical Team and Officer Commanding Holding Company of the ANZAC Field Hospital deployed in support of Operation SUMATRA ASSIST
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48. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for SGT Cox, Geoffrey Ian (Army)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 11 June 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For an act of exceptional dedication in the performance of nursing duties as a member of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, Defence Co-operation Program – East Timor
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49. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for FLTLT Crimston, Stephen Michael (RAAF)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 17 October 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For outstanding devotion to duty and tireless work in the delivery of lifesaving care to the injured, and solace to their friends and relatives as a member of the Operation BALI ASSIST Aeromedical Evacuation Team, October 2002
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50. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for CPL Davidson, Daniel Troy (Army)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For acts of exceptional dedication in the performance of nursing duties as a member of Special Operations Task Unit 637.1 during Operation SLIPPER, Afghanistan 2005
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52. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for SSGT Felmingham, Kim (Army)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 25 March 2000. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For outstanding devotion and competency in providing medical treatment to vehicle accident casualties on 14 January 2000 while on Operation STABILISE in East Timor
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53. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for SQNLDR Harrison, Ann Teresa (RAAF)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 8 June 1992. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For outstanding performance of nursing duties at No 3 RAAF Hospital
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54. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for CPL Hayden, Timothy John (Army)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 January 1995. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For exceptional dedication and devotion to duty to the Australian Army, particularly following a motor vehicle accident near Paluda Camp in Malaysia on 23 September 1993
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55. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for FLTLT Hernan, Anna-Lisa (RAAF)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 17 October 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties with the Royal Australian Air Force aeromedical evacuation team during Operation SUMATRA ASSIST
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57. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for WGCDR Hine, Margaret Joy (RAAF)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 January 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For outstanding achievement as the Commanding Officer of Number 6 Royal Australian Air Force Hospital, Royal Australian Air Force Williams, and as the Commanding Officer of the United Nations Military Hospital, Dili, East Timor
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58. Refer:
    • "Nursing Service Cross (NSC) entry for SQNLDR Howell, Elizabeth Anne (RAAF)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 January 1988. Retrieved 23 May 2020. For outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties as the Nursing Administrator at the No 3 Royal Australian Air Force Hospital, Richmond NSW
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63. Refer:
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66. Refer:
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67. Refer:
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68. Refer:
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69. Refer:
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70. Refer:
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71. Refer:
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72. Refer:
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74. Refer:
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75. "Bravery Medal (BM) entry for Mr Wilson, Marcus (Army)". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2020. For display of considerable bravery in assessing, treating and rescuing five military personnel from a crashed helicopter in Kabul, Afghanistan
76. Refer:
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