The Norman Gooding Collection

Pair: Nursing Sister Maud E. Tate, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. E. Tate); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. E. Tate.) very fine (2) £400-£500

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

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Maud Ellen Tate was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, around 1872, and took her nursing studies at the Metropolitan Hospital in London. Appointed to Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve, she served during the Boer War at No. 7 General Hospital in Pretoria and No. 14 General Hospital in Newcastle, and was at some time attached to Langman’s Hospital. The latter was a private field hospital endowed by the philanthropist John Langman, which garnered fame for its appointment of retired opthalmologist Arthur Conan Doyle and for its efforts in combating the typhoid fever epidemic which raged from April to June 1900 in Bloemfontein.