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Six: Private A. H. Martin, Oldham Corps, St. John Ambulance Brigade, later Royal Army...
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Six: Private A. H. Martin, Oldham Corps, St. John Ambulance Brigade, later Royal Army Medical Corps, who served on the staff at the Langman Hospital during the Boer War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Pte. A. L [sic]. Martin, Langman Hospital) officially re-impressed naming, as typically encountered on QSAs issued to the Langman Hospital; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (422 Pte. A. H. Martin. Oldham Corps); 1914-15 Star (43433, Pte. A. Martin. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (46433 [sic] Pte. A. Martin. R.A.M.C.); Defence Medal, nearly very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- A. H. Martin is confirmed on the roll of the Langman Hospital, which lists 58 names, but this figure includes 12 nursing sisters who received the medal under the auspices of the R.A.M.C. Established by Mr. John Langman, this private hospital opened its tented wards for the first time in April 1900, on the cricket ground at Bloemfontein, where, a few days later, it was inspected by Lord Roberts, V.C., who said of it in a telegram to Langman back in London, that its ‘value to our R.A.M.C. and wounded cannot be overestimated’. Indeed, under the efficient command of Langman’s son, Archibald, actually a Lieutenant in the Middlesex Yeomanry, the hospital eventually treated 1211 cases, latterly at a new location in Pretoria. Of these patients, 278 returned to duty, 875 were transferred to other hospitals and 58 died.
Among the handful of Surgeons employed on the 45-strong staff, 18 of whom were from the St. John Ambulance Brigade, was Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D., of Sherlock Holmes fame, who had, from the outset, been invited by John Langman to assist in the selection of suitable personnel. The Hospital was eventually given as a free gift by John Langman to the Government in November 1900, complete with all its equipment, tentage and supplies, and for his contribution to the War effort he was created a Baronet in 1906.
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Six: Private A. H. Martin, Oldham Corps, St. John Ambulance Brigade, later Royal Army Medical Corps, who served on the staff at the Langman Hospital during the Boer War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Pte. A. L [sic]. Martin, Langman Hospital) officially re-impressed naming, as typically encountered on QSAs issued to the Langman Hospital; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (422 Pte. A. H. Martin. Oldham Corps); 1914-15 Star (43433, Pte. A. Martin. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (46433 [sic] Pte. A. Martin. R.A.M.C.); Defence Medal, nearly very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- A. H. Martin is confirmed on the roll of the Langman Hospital, which lists 58 names, but this figure includes 12 nursing sisters who received the medal under the auspices of the R.A.M.C. Established by Mr. John Langman, this private hospital opened its tented wards for the first time in April 1900, on the cricket ground at Bloemfontein, where, a few days later, it was inspected by Lord Roberts, V.C., who said of it in a telegram to Langman back in London, that its ‘value to our R.A.M.C. and wounded cannot be overestimated’. Indeed, under the efficient command of Langman’s son, Archibald, actually a Lieutenant in the Middlesex Yeomanry, the hospital eventually treated 1211 cases, latterly at a new location in Pretoria. Of these patients, 278 returned to duty, 875 were transferred to other hospitals and 58 died.
Among the handful of Surgeons employed on the 45-strong staff, 18 of whom were from the St. John Ambulance Brigade, was Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D., of Sherlock Holmes fame, who had, from the outset, been invited by John Langman to assist in the selection of suitable personnel. The Hospital was eventually given as a free gift by John Langman to the Government in November 1900, complete with all its equipment, tentage and supplies, and for his contribution to the War effort he was created a Baronet in 1906.
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