Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Medical Services in the Boer War: a souvenir album belonging to Nurse (later Sister) Anita Lawrence of No.1 General Hospital, Wynberg, Cape Colony, containing various cartoon sketches and messages from patients (mostly colonial volunteers); together with a letter of commendation dated 4 October 1903 relating to her time as a Sister at No.9 General Hospital, Bloemfontein; two small group photographs featuring Lawrence; an enteric fever patient’s medical chart; an attractive colour printed testimonial from the Town and Parish of Worksop to Private John Moore, St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, on his return from South Africa, dated November 1902, this framed and glazed, 55 x 41cm. (approx.); Self-Aid in War booklet by T. F. S. Caverhill, 1900, 54pp., named to ‘Crosbie Barton, Sharpshooters’ providing ‘Practical Hints for the Cavalry Wounded in South Africa’; photograph album belonging to Nurse A. Webb, No.2 General Hospital, Pretoria, containing photographs and two sketches; four large group photographs of medical staff and patients; a photograph of G. W. Brown, R.A.M.C. c.1900, albums and chart in a fragile state, fair condition; framed testimonial in very good condition (lot)

One of the contributors in Lawrence’s album provides a list of hospital ‘rules’:
‘1. Reveille sounds at 5.30 a.m. each morning. Patients found out of bed before that time will have their medicine stopped for the day’
‘6. Patients possessing any money must hand it to the Sergt. Major so that he may not be short in his accounts’.
‘10. Patients are not allowed to give their stimulants to the cat ...’
‘11. Patients must endeavour to sleep on their backs at night as snoring helps to keep the orderly awake!!’
‘13. “Live and let live” being our motto, patients should not interfere with the personal comfort of other occupants in their beds & blankets’.
‘14. Patients are not allowed to throw their medicines at the microbes on the walls as they cannot swim’.