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Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry 47


A rare Boer War R.R.C. group of six awarded to Nursing Sister E. M. Whiteman, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve, later Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, who was Mentioned in Despatches for her services in Salonika during the Great War


Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister E. M. Whiteman); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister E. M. Whiteman); 1914 Star (Miss E. M. Whiteman. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister E. M. Whiteman) generally very fine (6)


£3,000-£4,000 R.R.C. London Gazette 31 October 1902.


Emily Margaret Whiteman was born in Brixworth, Northamptonshire in 1869, and trained as a nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Rochester. She enrolled in the Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 19 March 1897, with the British Journal of Nursing of 14 October 1899 showing her as a member of the Bart’s League. The Journal of a week earlier shows her as a Gold Medallist. Around this time she was working at Princess Christian’s Nursing Home in Windsor.


No. 3 General Hospital sailed for South Africa on 4 November 1899 with Miss Whiteman on the staff, and she served at No. 3 General Hospital at Kroondstat and No. 12 General Hospital at Springfontein in the Boer War. For her services she was awarded the Royal Red Cross. She arrived back in the UK on 9 October 1902, and was invested with the award on 18 December 1902. The British Journal of Nursing shows her as being appointed a ‘Queen’s Nurse’ on 1 July 1903.


Whiteman embarked for France on 12 August 1914, and served during the Great War with No. 6 General Hospital. She returned to the U.K. following a posting to the M.E.F, for Salonika, and sailed from Liverpool for Alexandria on 2 December 1915 and thence to Salonika on 27 January 1916, after a month in Egypt. She served in a variety of Hospitals in Salonika from 1 February 1916 until May 1918 when she returned to the UK, but requested to serve with Army of Occupation in June 1919, and served until 31 July 1919. For her service is Salonika she was Mentioned in General Milne’s Despatch (London Gazette 11 June 1918). She resigned on account of age on 19 January 1925, and died in Peterborough in 1953.


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A Great War R.R.C. pair awarded to Sister-in-Charge Miss Effie R. Sloan, Territorial Force Nursing Service, who served as Sister-in-Charge of No. 42 Casualty Clearing Station, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches


Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Collingwood, London, case of issue; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Sister E. R. Sloan.) nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500


R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.


Miss Effie Robytson Sloan joined the Territorial Force Nursing Service and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, ultimately rising to become Sister-in-Charge of No. 42 Casualty Clearing Station at Douai. For her services during the Great War she was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 15 June 1916 and 30 December 1918) and was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class.


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