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Nursing Sister Castle's medal sold for a hammer price of GBP 380. Totals: GBP 489. R 10,910. AUD 900. NZD 970. CAD 780. USD 580. EUR 540.

Nursing Sister Meade's medal sold for a hammer price of GBP 290. Totals: GBP 374. R 8,330. AUD 690. NZD 740. CAD 590. USD 440. EUR 410.

The famous Mary Kingsley's Medal was a burial at sea off Cape Point from the torpedo boat, HMS Thrush, together with a firing party from the Royal Marine Light Infantry. She died of heart failure and enteric fever on 3rd June 1900, just over two months after her arrival in Simon’s Town to Nurse Boer POW's having contracted fatal “camp fever”.
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QSA (0) (Nursing Sister M. Holland) heavy abrasions to both edge and obverse therefore good fine, the reverse better

Served in Ladysmith and in No 15 General Hospital.

There is a nurse named F E M Holland, a locally employed nurse in Ladysmith on WO100/229p152.

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QSA (0) (NURSING SISTER F.E. CROSS. 1901.)

Nurse Cross did serve in the base Hospital in Cape Town.

This medal is described as 'stunning' by the seller but it is clearly renamed in an unofficial style. That aspect is not mentioned.

Starting price request is R11,500 or nearly 500 GBP. No bids so far.

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MBE, Civil, 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, HM London 1919;
QSA (0) (Miss. M. E. Waring.), scratch to observe of QSA;
British War and Victory Medals (M. E. Waring. B.R.C. & St. J.J.)

MBE London Gazette 2 November 1920: ‘Miss Margaret Elizabeth Waring. A devoted worker in British hospitals in Boulogne.’

Margaret Elizabeth Waring is recorded on the QSA medal roll as a Staff Worker at the Camp Soldier’s Homes, one of just four ladies listed. The Army Medal roll shows that she served in France from September 1918 to 29 April 1919.

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RRC GV silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband;
QSA (0) (Nursing Sister D. Westbrook. I.Y. Hp. Staff);
KSA (0) (Nursing Sister D. Westbrook.);
Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with Second Award Bar (Dora King.);
British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, bronze, with integral top riband bar

RRC London Gazette 24 October 1917.

Dora Westbrook trained in nursing at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. She joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 15 May 1900 and served during the Boer War as a Nursing Sister at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in Dreelfontein.

According to The Yeomen of the Karoo, The Story of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Dreelfontein, this military hospital was created by the charitable efforts of Lady Georgina Curzon, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Beatrice Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster. Tasked initially with providing the highest quality medical care for the Imperial Yeomanry, the hospital was staffed by 706 medical professionals and offered 1960 beds to sick and injured soldiers. The Chairman’s report of 1902 notes that for its short period of existence, the hospital treated over 20,000 patients and developed a reputation as the best equipped, most sophisticated medical, surgical and convalescent hospital of the war, borne heavily of the untiring efforts of its aristocratic figureheads and their successful fundraising efforts.

Westbrook later served during the Great War as Matron of Highfield Hall Hospital in Southampton, and was awarded the RRC under her married name of Dora King. She received the decoration from the hand of the King at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 12 December 1917.