COBI Nurse Figure Keyring Set 1360

A COBI minifigure of a wartime nurse in printed uniform, fixed to a matching brick with a metal chain and keyring. The connection points are glued so it survives daily use.

They were closer to the fighting than nurses had ever been

The Second World War moved nursing forward. Field hospitals were set up within a few kilometres of the front so that surgery could happen within hours rather than days, and nurses went with them.

Around 59,000 women served in the US Army Nurse Corps alone, in North Africa, Italy, Normandy, the Pacific and on hospital ships and evacuation aircraft. Sixteen were killed by enemy fire, more than 200 died in service, and 67 were taken prisoner in the Philippines and held for nearly three years.

The survival rate among wounded men who reached a hospital — around 96 per cent — is largely their work.

In the COBI range

One of a series of sixteen figure keyrings from the Historical Collection. Set 1373 is the retail display holding the full assortment. Set 2268 is the US Field Hospital with a surgeon and a medic.

Specifications

Contents: one minifigure on a brick with metal chain and keyring · Glued connection points · Printed detail