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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 329

Three: Nurse A. Stevenson, South African Red Cross Society, who nursed Boer Wounded during the Second Boer War

South African Red Cross Silver Medal for efficiency in General First Aid to the Injured, the reveres numbered '374' (A. Stevenson 1925) in fitted case of issue, silver and enamel; South African Red Cross 10 years service badge, gilt and enamel; Johannesburg Pioneer 1966 medal, silver, the first on shortened ribbon and the enamel slightly scratched, otherwise good very fine (3)

Armande Stevenson was born at Lyon, France on 3 December 1877, coming to the title of Comtesse de la Barge de Certeau she volunteered to serve in the French Ambulance-Hospital in November 1899. This unit established a hospital at Johannesburg in the Marist Brothers School in order to support the Boers during the Second Boer War. They continued to serve even after the British occupation of the city, after the war she married John Herbert Stevenson, a South African in 1907. Awarder the Pioneer of Johannesburg silver medal in 1966 as she was one of the few people left alive who had been living in the city prior to 1 January 1900. Stevenson died in 1968; sold together copied auction listing as well as an archive of original material including:

i) A Red Cross Nurse’s Armband with Z.A. (Transvaal Republic) ribbon.
ii) A Postcard sowing nurses at the French Boer War Hospital, torn and repaired
iii) Two worn British Boer War Johannesburg Permits dated 4 June 1900 and naming the recipient.
iv) Three nursing named certificates from the South African Red Cross dated 1923, 1924 and 1925.
v) A ticket for Mrs J. H Stevenson for a luncheon at Amiens following the unveiling of the South African memorial for Delville Wood on 10 October 1926.
vi) A photograph of the recipient
vii) 8 wartime postcard photographs of South African Nurses.
viii) A covering letter from Mayor Boyce Eagar of Johannesburg to Mrs Stevenson.

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Sold for
£200

Starting price
£40