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Wallace1: Ladysmith, volunteer at Military Hospital.
Gray: GH/ITBI Ladysmith, Hospital Ship to England, 8 Gen. Hosp. Bloemfontein, 16 Gen. Hospital Elandsfontein, 5 Gen. Hospital Cape Town.
URL3: ?invalided to Eng. 10.9.1902 aboard the 'Avoca'.
Source:# 1090 sister on Sgt. Harry SHAPPERE RHA also inside seige of Ladysmith.
URL4: returning to Melbourne per 'Ophir' 1.1902.
URL5: Nurse Rosalind SHAFFERE, in Sydney to see her relations 8.1902 but returning to Johannesburg in a few days.
URL6: volunteered as nurse and accepted c11.1899, had been in Johannesburg for some time.
URL7: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
URL10: Sister Rosalind SHAPPERE, one of the nursing staff from Australia in South Africa, has returned to Sydney. She was the first English nurse at the front, to which she started from Adelaide, and has spent over two and a-half years in connection with nursing sick and wounded British and Boer soldiers. She has had an unusual experience, and has received various distinctions. Nurse SHAPPERE has been informed that she is to receive four clasps, in recognition of having nursed the sick and wounded in four separate States in South Africa. She proposes to return to Johannesburg after spending a few days with her relatives in Sydney.
Jewish Herald: Miss Rose SHAPPERE. It has already been stated in these columns that Miss Rose SHAPPERE, or Nurse SHAPPERE as she is professionally called, after the fatigues of the siege of Ladysmith, was sent to England to recruit her health. At the beginning of June [1900] she was in London. Called upon by a representative of the Jewish World, she gave a brief account of her experience, of which the following is an abstract ...
Roe: An NAA Research Guide says - "there was a small but solid Australian Jewish presence in the Boer War (1899–1902). Prominent among the soldiers were Major Walter 'Karri' Davis (who endured two years as a prisoner of war), Myer BLASHKI, Louis E Phillips, Alfred Saunders (son of Rev Moses Saunders of Melbourne) and two sons of Ballarat's Rev Israel M Goldreich. A Jewish woman, Rose Shappere, was notable among nurses who volunteered to tend the sick and wounded on the South African front."
Ball. Star: Sister Shappere, formerly of the Melbourne Hospital, who in the war in South Africa was the first Australian nurse in the field, and was at the memorable siege of Ladysmith, has been appointed matron of the Western General Hospital, Marylebone Road London [c4.1903].
Queenslander: A brave and noble woman is Miss Rosalind SHAFFERE, a nurse, who left Sydney for South Africa two and a-half years ago, to nurse the sick and wounded British and Boer soldiers. Her experiences (says "AAA") have not been ordinary, and many severe privations and dangerous risks has she gone through. On one occasion, whilst travelling by train, the Boers shelled the train, and she narrowly escaped with her life, the shells coming within a few feet of where she was. During her stay at the war she served as nurse in the hospitals at Bloemfontein, Elandsfontein, and Winberg, in addition to
the transport and hospital ships Avoca and Assaye. Nurse SHAFFERE thinks very highly of the colonial nurses, their experience and zeal being far beyond that of their English sisters, who are exceedingly jealous of the "colonials." Miss SHAFFERE was commanded to appear before the King to receive a medal in recognition of her services, but unfortunately she was at sea when this command reached South Africa, and could not obey it; however, she received the Royal Red Cross honour from Sir George GREY, and is to have conferred upon her four clasps in recognition of having nursed in four separate States in South
Africa. Whilst in South Africa Sister Rosalind met Lord ROBERTS, Generals KNOX,
CLEARY, Sir George GREY, and BADEN-POWELL, each of whom presented her his
autograph photograph. Miss SHAFFERE has just [8.1902] returned to Sydney to see her relatives, and after a few days returns to Johannesburg.
Syd. Herald : RETURN OF SISTER ROSALIND SHAPPERE. A DISTINGUISHED AUSTRALIAN NURSE GAZETTED FOR THE "ROYAL RED CROSS". Sister Rosalind SHAPPERE, one of the nursing staff from Australia in South Africa, returned to Sydney from Melbourne by the steamer Warrigal on Monday [16.6.1902]. Nurse SHAPPERE, who was the first English
nurse at the front, has spent over two and a half years in connection with nursing sick and wounded British and Boer soldiers, has had an unusual experience, and has received distinctions of various kinds. ... HebSA: Nursing Sister Rose SHAPPERE. Nurse Rose SHAPPERE who distinguished herself at the siege of Ladysmith and was commanded to appear before the King, is now on
a visit to her brother Mr. J SHAPPERE, Bondi. During her long stay at the war Nurse SHAPPERE also served as nurse in the hospitals at Winberg, Bloemfontein, and Elandsfontein, in addition to the transport and hospital ships Assaye and Avoca. She returned to England from South Africa upon three occasions as superintending nurse in charge of invalids, and also visited Melbourne and returned to the war with the Fifth Contingent. During her stay in South Africa she met Lord ROBERTS, Generals KNOX, CLEARY, Sir George GREY, BROCKLEHURST,
and BADEN-POWEL, and obtained photographs bearing the autograph of each. She was
gazetted by Sir George GREY to receive the Royal Red Cross of honour, and also received a command to attend before his Majesty the King to receive a medal in recognition of the services she had rendered. At the time that the command from his Majesty reached South Africa, Nurse SHAPPERE was at sea, and in consequence
could not obey it. Nurse SHAPPERE was the only Australian nurse present at the siege of Ladysmith. Nurse SHAPPERE has been informed that she was to receive four clasps (sic), in recognition of having nursed the sick and wounded in four
separate States in South Africa. She proposes to return to Johannesburg after spending a few days with her relatives in Sydney.
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