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[ QSA (1) Natal]
SJAB Medal (1047. Pte. W. Bateman. Nelson Corps.)

W Bateman served with No. 14 Stationary Hospital in South Africa.

No 14 Hospital was based in Newcastle from August 1900 to the end of the war.

Noonan's say also entitled to the Johannesburg clasp but I think that is a misread of the roll.

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[ QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal ]
SJAB Medal (1452. Pte. W. Taylor. Accrington Corps.)

Served with No 17 Stationary Hospital (Standerton)

QSA listed on WO100/225p184

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QSA (2) Cape Colony, OFS (1770 Ord J. Makin St John Amb Bde.);
SJAB Medal (1770 Pte J. Makin Bury Div,)

Served at the Base Hospital,,Wynberg, and attached to 1st Corps Troops Field Hospital.

The pair to Makin sold for a hammer price of £470. Totals (inc VAT on the commission for the UK only): £583. R11,300. Au$980. Can$870. US$680

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QSA (2) Cape Colony, Orange Free State (St.- Sgt. G. Peat. R.A.M.C.);
SJAB Medal (80 1st. C. Sergt. G. Peat. Welbeck. Div.);
1914-15 Star (49490, Sjt. G. Peat, R.A.M.C.);
British War and Victory Medals (49490 Sgt. G. Peat. R.A.M.C.)

George Peat was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on 20 July 1874 and was a long serving member of the Welbeck Division of the St John Ambulance Brigade when he volunteered to serve (for 6 months) in South Africa during the Boer War with the Portland Field Hospital. The Portland Field Hospital (160 beds) was raised by subscription for the Boer War, with the Duke of Portland contributing £5,000 to the almost £14,000 raised (the Duke of Portland’s ancestral seat was Welbeck Abbey, and so presumably the hospital drew most of its staff from the Welbeck Division of the SJAB). The medical staff and orderlies, with full supplies, left England on 13 December 1899 and on their arrival at the Cape no time was lost in commencing operations at Rondebosch. Here they remained for three months, after which the hospital was removed to Bloemfontein, its existence coming to an end in July 1900. In total some 1,009 officers and men were treated by the Hospital, with Peat serving as Deputy Superintendent of the hospital. Interestingly, although his Queen’s South Africa Medal gives his rank as Staff Sergeant with the R.A.M.C. he never attested into the Army.

On returning from South Africa Peat gained employment as Clerk in charge of Stores, and he may have served with the Territorials in the RAMC post Boer War as his Great War enlistment papers record he was part of the Nottinghamshire National Reserve and wished to re-enlist. Whilst he was over age (40), he was accepted as a Private on 15 January 1915, being rapidly promoted to Sergeant. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 June 1915 where he was hospitalised several times (including malaria) and sent to Birmingham Hospital on 12 August 1917, suffering from neurasthenia which resulted in his medical discharge on 27 February 1918. He was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. 370,475. He died in Southport, Lancashire, in January 1949.

Hammer price £950.

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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (587 Ordly: H. J. Nuttall, St John Amb: Bde:) clasps attached with unofficial suspension rod;
St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (587 Pte. J. H. Nuttall Bolton Corps);
[ 1914/15 Star ? ];
BWM 1914-20 (M.8311 J. H. Nuttall. S.R.A. R.N.)
[ VM ]

John H. Nuttall was born near Bury, Lancashire, on 13 October 1873. He served with the Bolton Corps of the St John Ambulance Brigade in the South African war in 1900-01. He joined the Royal Navy on 2 August 1914, initially in Vivid, then joining Impregnable in October 1914 until his demobilisation in 1919.