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Sold on 26 July 2023

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A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press

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№ 295

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26 July 2023

Hammer Price:
£200

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Miss M. Warboys.) officially impressed but naming inverted to read from the reverse side, good fine £100-£140

Miss M. Warboys is confirmed on a roll of Civilian Nursing Sisters serving at No. 10 General Hospital at Norvals Pont. Locally engaged, these nurses volunteered in South Africa and were attached to the Army Nursing Service Reserve for service in military hospitals. Miss Warboys returned to Pretoria on 30 July 1900. She is also entitled to the K.S.A. without clasps and is shown on the roll as ‘Nursing Sister Warboys, M. (Civil) (now Mrs Hudson)’, having married one H. A. W. Hudson in 1902.

Sold with copied medal rolls and other research.