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Nursing Sister Castle's medal sold for a hammer price of GBP 380. Totals: GBP 489. R 10,910. AUD 900. NZD 970. CAD 780. USD 580. EUR 540.

Nursing Sister Meade's medal sold for a hammer price of GBP 290. Totals: GBP 374. R 8,330. AUD 690. NZD 740. CAD 590. USD 440. EUR 410.

The famous Mary Kingsley's Medal was a burial at sea off Cape Point from the torpedo boat, HMS Thrush, together with a firing party from the Royal Marine Light Infantry. She died of heart failure and enteric fever on 3rd June 1900, just over two months after her arrival in Simon’s Town to Nurse Boer POW's having contracted fatal “camp fever”.
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Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (0) (Nursing Sister M. Holland) heavy abrasions to both edge and obverse therefore good fine, the reverse better

Served in Ladysmith and in No 15 General Hospital.

There is a nurse named F E M Holland, a locally employed nurse in Ladysmith on WO100/229p152.