IMPERIAL LIGHT HORSE

       

 

Colony: Natal, South Africa
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 00/00/1900
Number issued: ?

 

Gold brooches, each set with a diamond, to:

Nurses who served through the Siege of Ladysmith

Locally Employed –
Nursing Sister Amy Blake KEIGHLEY
Nursing Sister Sophie LEES
Nusing Sister Rose SHAPPERE

Nursing Sister Ellena Philipson STOW

Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) –

593 Nursing Sister Eugenia LUDLOW

and other unnamed nurses
 
Obverse: "Ladysmith / 1900".
Reverse (for example): "A.B. KEIGHLEY".
 

A gift from officers of the Imperial Light Horse.

Rose Shappere apparently received her brooch from Lady White (Sydney Evening News, 20/02/1901).

 

Keighley example sold through Spink, 20/10/1999, for £1,600.
Stow example sold through City Coins, Cape Town, Dec 2004, for R26,000 (£2,220)

Keighley exampe sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 26/03/2009, for £1,800

 

 

Diamond Fields Advertiser, 01/04/1902
Spink, 20/10/1999
City Coins, Cape Town, Dec 2004
Information provided by Paul Dunn
 
 
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Sydney Evening News, 20th February 1901
 
Among the few non-combatants who left for South Africa with the Victorians on the troopship Orient on Friday was Miss Rose SHAPPERE, who was acting as an army nurse throughout the siege of Ladysmith, and who goes back to resume her nursing duties with the Australians. She wore upon her dress a gold medal, commemorating the siege of Ladysmith and her services during that terrible time. The medal was sent out to her lately by Lady White.
 
 
 
 
  Imperial Light Horse ALL
Courtesy of City Coins