Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare South Africa Medal 1877-79 awarded to Nurse Mary Ann Shiplen (Sister Elizabeth), Stafford House South African Aid Society

South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (Miss M. A. Shiplen. “Nurse”.) extremely fine £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Nurses of the Stafford House South African Aid Society agreed to serve in South Africa for 6 months or for as long as hostilities continued. They arrived at Cape Town on 6 July 1879 and at Durban on 12 July. Sisters ‘Ruth’ and ‘Elizabeth’ were posted to the Auxiliary Hospital at Addington Point. Miss Shiplen was awarded the South Africa Medal without clasp; one of seven awarded to members of the Stafford House South African Aid Committee. Mary Shiplen was with the Egypt and Nile Expedition as a Cooking Sister, 10 June-18 August 1885 - sent out by the Princess Mary’s Branch of the National Aid Society. The Stafford House Society was one of many set up within the ‘National Aid Society’ - which with re-organisation in 1905 became the British Red Cross Society. With copied research.