Soldiers’ thanks to nurse Esme: cape with military badges brings demand at auction
This scarlet and navy woollen cape sold in an Essex auction is sewn with the numerous cloth regimental badges that were given to Esme Kathleen Robinson (d.2017) by the soldiers she treated in Oxfordshire as a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) during the Second World War.
Robinson was based at Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, from 1942-45.
The cape, consigned b…