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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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№ 325

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26 July 2023

Hammer Price:
£900

Anglo-Boer War Medal 1899-1902 (Verpleegster C. R. Visser.) officially re-impressed naming, otherwise extremely fine and rare £300-£400

Cornelia Rozina Visser was a Red Cross nursing sister serving with the Veldt-Hospital at Mafeking.

Sold with copied Vorm “B” and various submissions, mostly in Dutch. A small note attached in English reads ‘Served in Ambulance. Attack of malaria at Litchenburg where she had to remain, and lost contact with ambulance - returned to Holland - date not given but prob before 1902.’