Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Nursing Sister Helen L. Neale, Army Nursing Service and Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister H. L. Neale.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister H. L. Neale.) nearly extremely fine (2) £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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Christie’s, December 1990.

Helen L. Neale was appointed to the Army Nursing Service as Nursing Sister at Netley on 5 October 1894. She served in Cape Colony from October 1899 to September 1901, and the Transvaal from October 1901 to May 1902, the medal rolls confirming postings to the Base Hospital at Cape Town and No. 1 General Hospital at Wynberg. She then served a further period at the General Hospital in Pretoria. Appointed Sister in 1903 upon the reorganisation of the service, Neale returned from South Africa and spent two years at Netley from 1904 to 1906, resigning in May 1906.