Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister R. Donian.) officially impressed naming; together with a fine gold and enamel nursing award, the reverse inscribed ‘Johannesburg Hospital Awarded to Rosa Donian May 1900’, good very fine and rare £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press.

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Rosa Donian is confirmed as a Nursing Sister on the roll of Johannesburg Civil Hospital. She was born in King Williams Town, a British subject of French extraction. She died unmarried in the General Hospital at Johannesburg on 22 April 1916, aged 38 years 5 months.

Sold with copied medal roll and a Hospital report in Dutch for May 1900 that mentions Rosa Donian at No. 1 in a list of 7 ladies.