Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (1687 Tpr: E. M. Hoops. S.A.C.); together with a silver prize medal, the reverse engraved ‘3rd Prize Boys Championship Race Won by E. M. Hoops.’; and the recipient’s South African War Veterans Association lapel badge, gilt and enamel, toned, good very fine

Pair: Staff Nurse E. C. Hoops, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (S/Nurse E. C. Hoops) surname officially corrected on VM; together with the recipient’s silver identity bracelet, nearly extremely fine (lot) £140-£180

Ernest Mostyn Hoops was born in Donegal, Ulster in September 1878, and was the son of a Doctor, and brother of Eilsea Hoops. The family moved to Canada in the 1890’s, and Hoops subsequently resided in South Africa, Argentina and Canada retiring to White Rock - where he died in 1964.

Eilsea/Eileen Constance Hoops was born in Wrexham, Wales in 1885. She trained as a nurse in Vancouver, Canada, and served as a Staff Nurse with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 September 1917. After the war she resided in Palo Alto, California, and died in Vancouver General Hospital in February 1963.

Sold with a commemorative ‘horseshoe’ brooch badge for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee 1887, silver and enamel; and a commemorative brooch badge for King George VI’s Coronation 1937, bronze-gilt; and copied research including photographic images of both recipients.