ID PLease

Can anyone ID this button for me please?:

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While I'm at it, a very big thank you to Phil2m, for this and all the other great badges/buttons he very generously donated to the collection.

With thanks,

Peter.

[Old Smelly]

I think it could be nursing, possibly midwives
Lee

Originally Posted by Old Smelly

I think it could be nursing, possibly midwives
Lee

Lee,

There's an angle I wasn't expecting. I was kind of hoping something more along the lines of 'Volunteer Rifles' with that cipher and given that the button is black.

Any (midwifery) ideas what the letters could possibly stand for?

Thanks for looking.

Peter

[Phil2M]

Now I know how it feels, there should be a blush emoticon!

The button was sold in a bag with Rifles buttons and a KRRC boss.

Midwifery, never would have thought that. I know the red cross had black plastic buttons.

Maybe 'Volunteer Infant Removers'

Phil

[ANGLE IRON]

Memory a bit Hazy but I have one of these and asked Howard Ripley what it was, I think it was something like Royal Victoria Institute?

[XIII]

On an internet search it comes up as a button to the Queen's Institute Of District Nursing - VRI

Many thanks one and all, for your help.

Regards,

Peter.

[Arthur R]

I read the initials as VRI. Apart from anything else, that was Queen Victoria's cipher from 1876 onwards: Victoria Regina Imperatrix.

[Old Smelly]

Just remembered these badges I have that came with simliar buttons, look like it is District Nurse
Lee

Originally Posted by Old Smelly

Just remembered these badges I have that came with simliar buttons, look like it is District Nurse
Lee

Nice one, Lee. Thanks for posting those.

Peter.