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17 January 2024

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№ 180

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17 January 2024

Hammer Price:
£240

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister S. C. Chown.) officially re-impressed naming as typically encountered with QSAs to nurses, nearly extremely fine £240-£280

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

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Sophie Charlotte Chown trained at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital and enrolled in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve (No. 76) on 9 July 1897. Sent to No. 7 General Hospital at Pretoria, she died on 23 March 1900.