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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (1687 Tpr: E. M. Hoops. S.A.C.); together with a silver prize medal, the reverse engraved ‘3rd Prize Boys Championship Race Won by E. M. Hoops.’; and the recipient’s South African War Veterans Association lapel badge, gilt and enamel, toned, good very fine
Pair: Staff Nurse Eilsea C. Hoops, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (S/Nurse E. C. Hoops) surname officially corrected on VM; together with the recipient’s silver identity bracelet, nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180
Eilsea Constance Hoops served as a Staff Nurse with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 September 1917.
Sold with a commemorative ‘horseshoe’ brooch badge for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee 1887, silver and enamel; and a commemorative brooch badge for King George VI’s Coronation 1937, bronze-gilt.
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