A Small Collection of Queen’s South Africa and Queen’s Mediterranean Medals 498 499 500 501 502 503
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (2805 Pte. C. M. Brown. Cape M.R.) good very fine
£300-£400 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (J. H. Simpson. Remount Dept:) very fine £80-£100
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp, bronze issue (13 Syce Bhaggoo 1st Bo. Lcrs.) ‘Syce’ partially erased, otherwise nearly very fine
£100-£120
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1453 Pte. A. E. Webber. 1st City Vols:) minor edge nicks, good very fine
£80-£100
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (11637 Corpl G. P. N. Angus, R.A.M.C.) contact marks, nearly very fine
£80-£100
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (1779 Ord: B. L. Brooksbank. St John Amb: Bde:); together with St John Ambulance Association re-examination medal (90315 Benj. L. Brooksbank) and three small silver S.J.A.B. competition medals, ‘Ambulance Patient, Keighley 1900’, ‘Shipley 1st Prize’, these two with monogram ‘BLB’, and ‘S. & D. F. & T.S. Amb. Comptn. 1902 B. L. Brooksbank’, first with small edge bruise, otherwise very fine (5)
£100-£140 504
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (R. Lowe, Scottish Hosp:) small official correction, otherwise nearly extremely fine and scarce
£400-£500 Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003.
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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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Whrmn: J. Hamilton, Irish Hospital) nearly extremely fine and scarce
£400-£500 Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003.
The Irish Hospital was offered to the Central Committee of the British Red Cross, in December 1899, by Lord Iveagh, who generously offered to pay for equipping the hospital for service in South Africa. He proposed that ‘it should be as far as possible a mobile unit and that the management should be left to whatever civilian medical gentleman he should select’. The hospital was formally established on 28 December 1899, and the first personnel and equipment sailed for the Cape in the following February. On arrival at Cape Town the staff went into camp at Green Point and then moved by rail to Naauwport, arriving there on 10 March. The following day two surgeons, two dressers and eighteen orderlies, with stores, were sent by rail to De Aar. The remainder of the unit, being under orders to move to Bloemfontein, were unable to operate at Naauwport. The final move was made between 10th and 12th April and the De Aar detachment joined the main body on 21 April at Bloemfontein.
On 10 May 1900 a section under Sir William Thomson marched out to join Lord Roberts’ force at Kroonstadt, were attached to the 11th Division on the advance which commenced on 22 May, and reached Pretoria on 6 June. On 14 June the Irish Hospital commenced operations in the Palace of Justice and by 19 June had had 93 admissions. The original capacity of 100 beds was soon extended to 250 beds and by 10 July there were 500 beds, the staff being supplemented by military personnel. No patients were admitted after 30 September 1900 and the unit left South Africa on 15 October, handing over its last 180 patients to the Royal Army Medical Corps.
The medal roll for the Irish Hospital shows a total of 67 members entitled to the medal with various clasps. Also included in the roll are three members of the R.A.M.C. and 25 Nursing Sisters of the Army Nursing Service Reserve. Hamilton is one of two Washermen shown on the roll and, interestingly, is one of only two recipients to receive just these two clasps.
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Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Civ. Ord. F. C. Caslake, Welsh
Hospital) nearly extremely fine and scarce 507 508 509 510 £400-£500
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia (Pte. G. S. Harding, Med. Staff R.F.F.) obverse polished, nearly very fine, reverse extremely fine
£160-£200 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister S. Stowe.) good very fine Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Rev. R. Morrison. C to F.) good very fine £200-£240 £140-£180
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (Agent R. R. Higham. F.I.D.) good very fine £100-£120
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