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Here is a link to the 2002 sale: www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/lot-archiv...Medals&lot_uid=81402

One option you have is to write to DNW and ask if they will pass on a message from you to the buyer. In similar situations, I have known items to be returned to the family. Worth a go?

Deconstructed belt (created in Photoshop; not actually broken apart!) -



For full list of recipients see: NATAL CARBINEERS BELTS


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Picture courtesy of Noonan's

Described as:

Silver waist belt clasp, the reverse hallmarked Birmingham 1901 and with maker’s mark ‘T&JB’, applied with gold badge of the Natal Carbineers, hallmarked 9 carat gold, with belt of eleven silver roundels linked by silver chains, two roundels inscribed, ‘Presented by the Natal Carbineers to Nurse C. E. Thompson, in recognition of her great services to the men of the Regiment’, ‘During the Siege of Ladysmith Nov. 2. 1899. to Feb. 28. 1900.’, the remaining nine roundels depicting Maritzburg Town Hall, a covered Ambulance Wagon, an Army Signaller with Observation Balloon in the distance, a Nursing Sister, the Arms of the Colony of Natal, a Mounted Trooper, two Indian bearers with dhoolie, an Artillery Gun, and Artillery Shells, the reverse of each roundel with silver mark and date letter for 1901, a little polished, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £1,000-£1,400

The belt to Nursing Sister Chrissie Emma THOMPSON (Intombi Camp) was last sold by City Coins in 2004, for R43,000 ZAR (£3,670 GBP).




Roll published in the "Natal Volunteer Record, Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1900" (Robinson & Co., Durban, 1900), p. 79.
One name is missing from the Intombi list: Nursing Sister Elizabeth BAMBER [Bessie Bamber].

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The Belt to Nurse Thompson sold this afternoon for a hammer price of GBP 17,000. Totals: GBP 21,896. R 481,830. AUD 40,230. NZD 43,740. CAD 35,920. USD 27,210. EUR 24,570.

Does anyone here happen to know which belt is/was in the collection of MuseuMAfricA (formerly Africana Museum), Johannesburg?
It features in Pieter Oosthuizen’s book ”Boer War Memorabilia” (p. 124), but is only described as one of the Maritzburg Assembly Hospital belts. The photograph is too small for one to be able to read the inscription.
The museum does not appear to have an online inventory.

Neville