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Has anyone ever seen one of these South Australian Devoted Service Crosses?

The South Australian gold Devoted Service Cross is described as being in the form of a laurel wreath over laid by the crossed flags of the Union Jack and South Australia, suspended by two chains from a plain bar with the inscription, 1901 AFRICA 1902. The reverse was in scribed on three straight lines, PRESENTED TO NURSING SISTER XXXX - ON BEHALF OF THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE - SOUTH AUSTRALIA FUND FOR WAR NURSE. It was presented to South Australian Sisters Bidmead, Glenie, Cocks, O'Shanahan, Watts and Stephenson by the wife of the then Governor of the Colony of South Australia.

Opcom,

No, I don't recall seeing one of those. When Bidmead's awards were sold in 2012, the group consisted of the RRC and QSA alone.

www.noble.com.au/auctions/lot?id=292665

I had Bidmeads medals in the mid-80's it had a siver 1902 Coronation on a bow with it, but not on a roll anywhere-must have parted company from the other two. No sign of a Devoted Service Cross.