Colony: Natal, South Africa
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 00/00/1900
Number issued: ?
Gold brooches, each set with a diamond, to:
Nurses who served through the Siege of Ladysmith
Locally Employed –
Nursing Sister Amy Blake KEIGHLEY
Nursing Sister Sophie LEES
Nusing Sister Rose SHAPPERE
Nursing Sister Ellena Philipson STOW
Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) –
593 Nursing Sister Eugenia LUDLOW
and other unnamed nurses
Obverse: "Ladysmith / 1900".
Reverse (for example): "A.B. KEIGHLEY".
A gift from officers of the Imperial Light Horse.
Rose Shappere apparently received her brooch from Lady White (Sydney Evening News, 20/02/1901).
Keighley example sold through Spink, 20/10/1999, for £1,600.
Stow example sold through City Coins, Cape Town, Dec 2004, for R26,000 (£2,220)
Keighley exampe sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 26/03/2009, for £1,800
Diamond Fields Advertiser, 01/04/1902
Spink, 20/10/1999
City Coins, Cape Town, Dec 2004
Information provided by Paul Dunn
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Sydney Evening News, 20th February 1901
Among the few non-combatants who left for South Africa with the Victorians on the troopship Orient on Friday was Miss Rose SHAPPERE, who was acting as an army nurse throughout the siege of Ladysmith, and who goes back to resume her nursing duties with the Australians. She wore upon her dress a gold medal, commemorating the siege of Ladysmith and her services during that terrible time. The medal was sent out to her lately by Lady White.
Courtesy of City Coins
