Volume 1

The Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa, 1900-1902 / edited by the Countess Howe.

  • Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals Committee.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa, 1900-1902 / edited by the Countess Howe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    The two parts are now issued together, so that a record of the work may remain for all time in a connected and continuous form, and every subscriber can thus see what has been done with the funds so generously entrusted to the Committee. There are two features that stand prominently forward in connection with the great work which has been accomplished by the Imperial Yeomanry PRESENTATION OF MEDALS. Hospitals. One, the loyal eo-operation and work ungrudgingly given by the members of the Committee (over ninety in number) in working and collecting funds. The devotion to their self-imposed task inspired all with whom they worked, and the capacity and ability exhibited by these ladies in the execution of it, is as wonderful as it is instructive. Their power of initiating ideas, and dealing with difficult and complicated questions of organization, must, I think, have impressed even those who fill high official positions in the different depart- ments of State. The second feature is the absolutely loyal adherence of the staff of the hos-