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Auction: 25112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 115

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister E. Ellis.), contact marks, very fine

Elizabeth Ellis was born at Horbury, Yorkshire in 1858 and trained at Guy's Hospital, she married a George Ellis and by 1881 was living at Spring End, Horbury. They had moved to 3 Snake Hill, North Bierley, West Yorkshire in 1891 however she joined Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service (Reserve) at London on 2 March 1900.

Assigned to the 15th General Hospital at Howick, Natal, a 536 bed Hospital which opened in July 1900. A concentration camp operated nearby, although this was rather better run than the majority of those in Transvaal. It became overcrowded later in the war but even then the cases of typhoid, measles and bronchitis never reached epidemic levels. After the war, Ellis' husband died and she appeared on the 1911 census living at 4 Snake Hill Oakenshaw, North Bierly, West Yorkshire; sold together with copied research.

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£290

Starting price
£140