Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister G. S. Edwards); together with a Boer War Memorial Medal, by E. Fuchs, commemorating those who gave their lives for King and Country, 70mm., bronze, unnamed, this good very fine; first extremely fine (2) £250-300

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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Gertrude Stockley Edwards trained at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. She enrolled into the P.C.A.N.S.R. on 1 August 1900 and was given the number ‘794’. In South Africa she served with No. 9 General Hospital at Bloemfontein where she died of disease on 22 May 1901.