Colonial Nursing Association, Africa General Service Medal -Nyasaland 1915,Nursing Sister Beatrice C Empson

An extremely rare group of badges and medal awarded to a Nursing sister who was co-opted into the Nyasaland Frontier Force during the Chilembwe Uprising in 1915.
Beatrice Charity Empson was born in 1869 in Northampton and trained at St Thomas' Hospital in London qualifying as a Nightingale Nurse in 1899. She gained her midwifery qualification from the London School of Obstetrics in 1904.
At some point she joined the Colonial Nursing Service and went out to British East Africa where she found herself at the outbreak of the First World War. She joined up with the British Military Force and became a Nursing Sister with the Nyasaland Field Force dealing with the Chilembwe Uprising of early 1915. For this service she was awarded the Africa General Service Medal with the rare Nyasaland 1915 bar, named to the rim Nursing Sister B C Empson.Whilst she was also eligible for the Victory,War and 1914 medals her MIC shows these were unclaimed.
This lot has her two badges from the Colonial Nursing Association in bronze and white metal(bronze is missing its suspension bar) The Africa GSM (minus ribbon) and a medal ribbon for the Africa GSM and 1914 star with oak leaf for Mentioned in Dispatches. A laminated copy of her handwritten history is include.
She appears to have returned to the UK from Mombassa in May 1915 and I can only find her in the membership records of the newly formed College of Nursing in 1916 being member 296. She took up the post of Sister at St John and St Thomas' House Queens Square and worked there until 1927. She passed away at St Thomas' hospital on May 30th 1928
An interesting group worthy of much more research, Being sold on behalf of the Nightingale Fellowship.
Please ask for any further details although information is very limited.

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