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RRCs for the Boer War 3 years 8 months ago #70789

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RRC VR;
QSA (0) (Nursing Sister J. E. Skillman)
Queen Alexandra’s Nursing Badge 1899-1902

RRC LG 27 September 1901. MID LG 10 September 1901.

Janet Elizabeth Skillman trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and enrolled in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve as No. 95 on 2 January 1900. She served in South Africa at No. 6 General Hospital, and was presented with the R.R.C. at an investiture on 17 December 1901. She returned to St Bartholomew’s after the war and was still there in 1905.
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RRCs for the Boer War 3 years 7 months ago #71287

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A lively start to the Jack Webb auction this morning. This RRC group sold for a total price of £3,864.
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I have to say that I would have not been surprised if it had done a little more given the current marketplace.


djb wrote: A lively start to the Jack Webb auction this morning. This RRC group sold for a total price of £3,864.

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RRCs for the Boer War 2 years 9 months ago #76671

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RRC VR;
QSA (0) (Nursing Sister E. M. Whiteman);
KSA (0) (Nursing Sister E. M. Whiteman);
1914 Star (Miss E. M. Whiteman. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.);
British War and Victory Medals (Sister E. M. Whiteman)

RRC London Gazette 31 October 1902.

Emily Margaret Whiteman was born in Brixworth, Northamptonshire in 1869, and trained as a nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Rochester. She enrolled in the Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 19 March 1897, with the British Journal of Nursing of 14 October 1899 showing her as a member of the Bart’s League. The Journal of a week earlier shows her as a Gold Medallist. Around this time she was working at Princess Christian’s Nursing Home in Windsor.

No. 3 General Hospital sailed for South Africa on 4 November 1899 with Miss Whiteman on the staff, and she served at No. 3 General Hospital at Kroondstat and No. 12 General Hospital at Springfontein in the Boer War. For her services she was awarded the Royal Red Cross. She arrived back in the UK on 9 October 1902, and was invested with the award on 18 December 1902. The British Journal of Nursing shows her as being appointed a ‘Queen’s Nurse’ on 1 July 1903.

Whiteman embarked for France on 12 August 1914, and served during the Great War with No. 6 General Hospital. She returned to the U.K. following a posting to the M.E.F, for Salonika, and sailed from Liverpool for Alexandria on 2 December 1915 and thence to Salonika on 27 January 1916, after a month in Egypt. She served in a variety of Hospitals in Salonika from 1 February 1916 until May 1918 when she returned to the UK, but requested to serve with Army of Occupation in June 1919, and served until 31 July 1919. For her service is Salonika she was Mentioned in General Milne’s Despatch (London Gazette 11 June 1918).

She resigned on account of age on 19 January 1925, and died in Peterborough in 1953.
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Emily Whiteman's RRC group sold for a hammer price of £2,800. Totals (inc VAT for UK only): £3,606. R68,700. Au$6,420. Can$5,970. US$4,860
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