A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers 30 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr R. Hinde, S.C.A.) very fine and rare £600-700
Mr. R. Hinde was one of 24 men of the Soldiers’ Christian Association who were entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal. A description of their services are contained in a report written by Mr. A. H. Wheeler, General Secretary of the Y.M.C.A.:
‘When the war clouds began to gather in South Africa, knowing the great value of the tent work carried on by the Young Men’s Christian Associations of America in the late war with Spain, the Soldiers’ Christian Association took steps through its Council to send suitably equipped tents and qualified workers to the front. The results, at first, were disappointing. Nothing daunted, the Council made preparation to carry out the object they had in view, applying to the authorities at the Cape for the necessary permission, and before the first band of workers was ready to start they received the following gratifying cablegram: “Permission granted; send tents at once.” Messrs. Hinde and Fleming sailed from Southampton for the Cape on Saturday, November 11th [1899], and already, on the previous Thursday, the following notice had been published in Orders for the day, issued from the Castle, Cape Town: “Permission has been given to the Soldiers’ Christian Association to send out tents and writing material for the troops. Facilities are to be accorded to the Association to put up tents at fixed stations as far as military requirements will permit.” Tents were set up wherever British troops were gathered in numbers and were sometimes used as hospitals, shelters for refugees and as overnight marquees. The tent in Bloemfontein was opened by Lord Roberts. The role of the S.C.A. tent was described in The Friend, the Bloemfontein newspaper edited by Rudyard Kipling and other war correspondents: ‘A prominent feature of camp life at Bloemfontein is the erection by the Soldiers’ Christian Association of large marquees for the use of our troops, for the purpose of writing, reading and recreation. Within a week of British occupation, the first of these was pitched within the Highland Brigade’s lines, and since then another has been established in the 1st Division. Field Marshal Lord Roberts has at all times taken an active personal interest in the work of the Association, and has already inspected the marquees, and expressed his cordial approval of the work which is being done in them. It may be of interest to mention that within three days of erection of the first tent five thousand sheets of note-paper and envelopes had been supplied (gratis) for the use of letter writing. The marquees are brilliantly lighted after dark, and short bright religious services are held there. The informal character of these gatherings and the hearty singing of well-known old hymns and choruses attract a nightly crowd of men, with which the accommodation provided is inadequate to cope’ ’ (Year Book of the English Union of Young Men’s Christian Association 1900-01 refers).
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Mr Blevin’s name appears on the roll of ‘Staff Workers, Camp Soldier’s Homes’. With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr H. J. Blevin) with card box of issue, nearly extremely fine
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (W. P. McNaughton) some edge bruising, very fine £70-90 £80-100
Listed on the medal roll of ‘Civilian Officials, Colonial Secretary’s Department’, as ‘Lockup Keeper McNaughton, W.P.’, employed as a ‘Guide to Maj. Wormald’s Column’. With copied roll extract.
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With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (C. W. Dand, Remount Dept.) very fine
Driver C. J. Alcock served on the Cape Government Railways. With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (C. J. Alcock, C.G.R.) good very fine
otherwise very fine 36 37 £50-70 £60-80
Imperial Military Railways. With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Interpreter W. J. Lishman, I.M.R.) ‘Queen’s cheek disfigured by solder (?)
£70-90
Carpenter S. Naulder was employed by the Natal Government Railways on reconstruction work. With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr S. Naulder, Natal Govt. Rlys.) good very fine
fine 38 £60-80
With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp, bronze issue (LB 12 Syce Ishar Bali, 17th Bl. Lcrs.) minor edge bruising, very
£140-180
Discharged to the South African Constabulary, 26 October 1900. With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (7178 Pte. J. Wolfe, Rl. Warwick Regt.) nearly extremely fine
39 £60-80
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (R. J. Kidd, Scottish Hosp.) officially re-impressed, scratch to Queen’s cheek, very fine
£50-70
The Scottish National Red Cross Hospital was organised in the first instance by the St Andrew’s Association and was funded by voluntary donations. The organisation of the hospital commenced in January 1900, the personnel eventually consisting of an officer in charge, 18 civil medical officers, 1 Quartermaster, 1 Warrant Officer, 2 secretaries, 35 nursing sisters of the Army Nursing Service Reserve, 45 first-class orderlies, all of whom were medical students, and 57 second-class orderlies, making a total of 160.
The first section arrived at Cape Town on 13 May 1900, and the hospital was opened for patients on 4 June, at Kroonstadt. Previous to that time however, the hospital staff had been employed on duty in the military hospitals at Bloemfontein and Kroonstadt. It remained during the whole period at Kroonstadt, and its equipment was handed over to the Government, when it ceased to exist as a private hospital, on 14 October 1900.
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