Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (Br: D. Shopland. Natal Vol: Amb: C.) cleaned, edge nicks, nearly very fine £70-£90

The Natal Volunteer Ambulance Corps was hurriedly constituted at the outbreak of hostilities by Colonel T. Gallwey, Principal Medical Officer of Natal, with the intention of providing bearers to carry the wounded from the battlefields. It eventually reached a strength of over 1000 men before disbandment in February 1900.