Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2013

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 640

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26 March 2013

Hammer Price:
£2,900

Scottish National Red Cross Hospital and St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association Tribute Medal 1900 (Margaret B. Alexander) 30 x 20mm., gold and enamel, nearly extremely fine, rare £800-1000

Ref. Hibbard J.7 - though it is listed as being only issued in silver.

Margaret Butler Alexander trained at The Western Infirmary, Glasgow and enrolled into the P.C.A.N.S.R. on 23 March 1900 being given the number ‘477’. She went to South Africa as a Nurse in the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital serving at Kroonstad. She is also listed as serving at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Pretoria. Mentioned in Despatches by Lord Roberts in 1902 (
London Gazette 1 March 1902). With copied gazette extract.

Nursing Sister Alexander’s Q.S.A./K.S.A. pair were sold in the Sabell Collection, Part 1, D.N.W. 13 September 2012.