Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Cape Badge, silver, reverse numbered ‘258’, pin-backed; together with a similar badge, the reverse number erased (but remnants of number 448 visible) and engraved ‘The Lord is at Hand’, the first good very fine; the second nearly very fine (2) £240-£280

The Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve was established in 1897, and its members served in South Africa during the Boer War, where the Princess Christian Hospital was based in Pinetown, near Durban. The unit was disbanded in 1907, with its members transferring to Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve.