Pair: Nursing Sister M. B. Alexander, Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital and Army Nursing Service Reserve

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nurse M. B. Alexander, Scottish Hos.) initials re-impressed; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. B. Alexander) some contact marks, very fine (2) £550-650

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Margaret Butler Alexander trained at The Western Infirmary, Glasgow and enrolled into the P.C.A.N.S.R. on 23 March 1900 being given the number ‘477’. She went to South Africa as a Nurse in the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital serving at Kroonstad. She is also listed as serving at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Pretoria. Mentioned in Despatches by Lord Roberts in 1902 (London Gazette 1 March 1902). With copied roll extract and other research.