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The RRC to Nurse Hogarth sold for a hammer price of GBP 2,600. Total GBP 3,349. R 75,820. AUD 6,200. NZD 6,750. CAD 5,530. USD 4,040. EUR 3,760

The RRC, QSA pair to Nurse Hogarth, appears in the March 2025 sale.

Nuring Sister Hogarth's pair sold for a hammer price of GBP 2,200. Total GBP 2,834. R 67,920. AUD 5,680. NZD 6,120. CAD 4,980. USD 3,600. EUR 3,150.

Picture courtesy of Warwick and Warwick

RRC VR;
The Order of St John (Dame of Grace);
QSA (0) (Lady Sarah I. Wilson. Nurse H. Mafeking [sic]);
1914 Star (Lady. S. Wilson. B.R.C.S.& O. St J.J.);
BWM and VM (Lady S. Wilson.);
1902 Coronation Medal

Lady Sarah was the daughter of the seventh Duke of Marlborough and Aunt to Sir Winston Churchill. Her husband Captain Gordon Wilson served as an ADC to Baden-Powell, so she and her husband took up residence in Mafeking. By the end of September 1898 on instruction of Baden-Powell who was concerned for her safety due to the news of a large force of burgers advancing on Mafeking, she left for Setagoli and shortly after to a farm in Mosita owned by a MrKeeley. A Daily Mail newspaper correspondent was captured and Lady Sarah undertook to send the Daily Mail cables about the siege of Mafeking. By November, she met with a representative from Reuter's agency, offering her a basket of carrier pigeons so she can communicate with Mafeking swiftly and safely, however one of the pigeons was captured exposing her identity to General Snyma. With this, she decided to meet with the general to ask for safe return to Mafeking for the exchange of a Boer lady held in Mafeking. This was refused and Lady Sarah was held prisoner in a field hospital. After several months an exchange for Lady Sarah's freedom was arranged and she spent the next five and half months in an under-ground bomb shelter constructed for her. During this time she assisted in and organised the nursing at the casualty hospital. Lady Sarah also served in the First World War working for the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.

The lots is to be sold with her husband's medals.