Description
St John’s Ambulance Medal for the Boer War, Bronze, 1141 Private W. Lambert, Barnoldswick Division.
Officially engraved: “1141 Pte W. Lambert Barnoldswick Div.”
Attractive example barely worn with good detail.
Confirmed on the matching QSA medal roll as having earned the Queen’s South Africa, 2 clasps, Orange Free State and Transvaal. as an Orderly with the “St John Ambulance Brigade”
A note reads that he was serving at 10 General Hospital.
No 10 General Hospital, was based in Bloemfontein, in the building of Grey’s College. (An old distinguished School in Bloemfontein)
You can click here to a view a period photograph inside the hospital held by the National Army Museum showing some nurses and medical staff treating patients.
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1998-01-135-66
Apparently the men of the Barnoldswick Division were amongst the first Ambulance to go out to to South Africa.
The remarks on the medal roll notes that he returned “To Base 10th October 1900”
Barnoldswick is a Town from the “West Riding of Yorkshire” now part of Lancashire in the borough of Pendle.
