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2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (CMR)

4th Yorkshire Military Band

7th South African Infantry

10th Canadian Field Hospital

18th Brigade Field Hospital

AANS see Australian Army Nursing Service

Adams, John

Adelaide Advertiser

Adelaide Children’s Hospital

Adelaide Chronicle

Adelaide Observer

Adriani, Miss

Affleck, Annie

African Society

Albrecht, Dr

Algemeen Nederlandsche Verbond

ambulance trains see trains

anaesthetic

Anderson, Axel

animals, dead

Appelgren, Carl David (‘Appelberg’)

Arbuckle, Gertrude

Arrow, Amy

Asselberghs, Julienne

Athenaeum, The

ATNA

ATNA journal

attack, fear of

attitude of British soldiers

Australasian

Australasian Trained Nurses Association see ATNA

Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS)

Australian colonies, nurses from

Australian Imperial Force

Australian teachers

Australian Trained Nurses’ Association

Avondale Castle

Backman, Mr

Baden-Powell, Lord Robert

Bailey, Mary (later Kingsley)

Bangley, Mr

Banks, Commandant

Barberton commando

Barolong tribe

Base Hospital, East London

Battle of Boshof

Battle of Colenso

Battle of Elandslaagte

Battle of Gallipoli

Battle of Magersfontein

Battle of Paardeberg

Battle of Tobaberg

Becher, Ethel

Belgian Ambulance

Belgian–German Ambulance

Belgian Workers Party

Bell, F.

Bellevue Hospital, New York

Benson, Eva E.

Bertelsman, Dr

Bester, Lucy

Bethel, Mr

Bidenkap, Dr Wilhelm Boeck

Bidmead, Anne

Bidmead, Martha Sarah

youth

journey to Cape Town

at No. 2 General Hospital, Wynberg

at No. 10 General Hospital, Bloemfontein

at No. 5 Stationary Hospital

uniforms

health

medals

at Bishop’s Lodge

journey to England

on concentration camps

souvenirs from war

later career

retirement

death

Bidmead, Thomas Benjamin

Bishop’s Lodge

Black Watch

‘Black Week’

blockhouses

Bloemfontein

Bloemhof

Boers

Alice Bron and

Boer women

distrust of foreigners

Hilda Ladley and

Mary Kingsley and

Maud Graham and

prisoner-of-war camps

retreat of

Boer, Sister

Borden, Minister

Bornhaupt, Dr Lev

Boshof, Battle of

Bosman, Field-Cornet

Botha, Miss

Botha, Mr

Botha, General Louis

Bourke Ambulance

Bradeley’s Farm

Brakpan

Bramner, Dr

bread

baking of

crusts of

see also food

Bremner, Maude

Britain

call to arms

education

British Army

British Army Nursing Service

British Hotel

British Museum

British soldiers, attitude of

British War Office

Bron, Alice

youth

early career

joins Belgian–German Ambulance

in Pretoria

in Jacobsdal

on Boers

on weather

travels with Scandinavian Ambulance

in Pretoria

at Fourteen Streams

death of husband

returns to Europe

returns to South Africa

health

death

Bron, Arthur

Brown, Lady

Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania

bugs see pests

Buller, General Redvers

bullock-wagon drivers

Burns, Annie

Burra Burra District Hospital

Cameron, Florence

Campbell, Bruce

Campbell, Freda

Campbell, Joyce

Campbell, Margaret M. (née McInnes) see McInnes, Margaret M.

Canadian Army Medical Corps

Canadian Army Nursing Corps

Canadian Red Cross

Canadian soldiers

Canadian teachers

candles, paraffin wax

Cape Medical Staff Corps

Cape Town

Carr, Agnes

Carré, Dr Gerard

Central School, Potchefstroom

Charbon, S.C.

Charlier, Monsieur

chilblains

Christiana

Christian National Education

Cobham Hall

Cocks, A.

Colenso, Battle of

Colesberg

Collins, Miss

Colonial Army

Colonial Nursing Association

Colonist newspaper

Columbia Hospital for Women

Conan Doyle, Arthur

concentration camps

after end of war

Hilda Ladley on

Irene concentration camp

Martha Bidmead on

Merebank concentration camp

Norval’s Pont concentration camp

teachers for

see also prisoner-of-war camps

Connaught, Duke and Duchess of

contaminated water from Modder River

Coolen, Dr Frans

Cooper, Mr

Corinthian

corporal punishment

Craik, George Lillie

Craik, Georgiana

Craik, Mary

Crandall, Ella

Creusot

Crimean War

Cronjé, General Piet

Damascus

Dame’s College

Daniels, Miss

Daughters of the Empire

Davidson, A.

Davis, Frances (Fanny)

deaths see mortality rate

Deelfontein military hospital

Defré, Louis

De Haan, Dr Bierens

De Jonge, Cars Geert

De Landsheere, Dr Jozef

De la Rey, Mrs

De la Rey, General Koos

De Villebois-Mareuil, General

Devin, Annie

Devoted Service Cross decoration

De Wet, Mr (headmaster)

De Wet, Mr (of Pretoria)

De Wet, General Christiaan

‘De Wet drives’

De Wolfe, Margaret

Dijksterhuijs, Haerko

Dilwara

District Trained Nursing Society of South Australia

Donn, Agnes

Douglas, Jessie

drought

dung

for floors

as fuel

Dunlop, Dr Thomas

Dunottar Castle

Dutch Ambulance, First

Dutch Ambulance, Second

Dutch East Indies ambulance

Dutcher, Grace

Dutch Reformed church

Dutch–Russian Ambulance

Dutch teachers

Du Toit, Rev. H.L.146

Du Toit, Rev. J.D. (Totius)

Du Toit, General Sarel Petrus

dysentery

Eberhardt, Dr R.K.

economic crisis in 1870s

Eddie, Miss

Edge, Colonel J. Dallas

education see schools; teachers

Edward VII

Egypt

Elandslaagte, Battle of

Elliott, Mabel

Ellis, Emma

enteric fever see typhoid fever

‘equal pay for equal work’ slogan

Erasmus, Mr

Ermelo

Ermelo Private Hospital, Sydney

ether, as anaesthetic

Evans, Clara

youth

early career

journey to Cape Town

at No. 1 General Hospital, Wynberg

at No. 8 General Hospital, Bloemfontein

health

death

commemoration

False Bay Hospital

farm schools

Fathers of Confederation

Fauresmith

female nurses, policy of employing

female suffrage

Ferguson, Phebe

Fessler, Dr

Firks, Miss

First Dutch Ambulance see Dutch Ambulance, First

First World War

Fitzmaurice, Ruth

Fleet, Jessie

Fletcher, Gertrude

Flinders Street Public School

Flygare, Johannes

food

Forbes, Sarah

Foreign Legion

Forster, J.

Fortesque, Eleanor

Fourteen Streams

Franco-Prussian War (1870–71)

Frater, Penelope

Freeman-Cohen, Harry

Free State Ambulance

Free State Red Cross society

Fremantle, Dr Francis

French, General

French ambulance

Frick, Lucy Maria

Friend, The

Fusco, Jean (pseudonym of Alice Bron)

see also Bron, Alice

Gallipoli, Battle of

Galopaud, Lieutenant

Garrison Hospital, Halifax

Gascon

Gatacre, General

Génestet, Petrus Augustus de

German Ambulance

German doctors

German South West Africa campaign

Gezina School

Gilles Street Public School

Gillingham, Miss

Girls High School, Quebec

Glennie, A.

Gould, Emily

Gould, Henry

Gould, Nellie ( Julia Ellen)

youth

early career

journey to Africa

uniforms

at Stationary Hospital, Sterkstroom

at No. 3 BGH, Kroonstad

at No. 6 BGH, Johannesburg

at No. 25 British Stationary Hospital, Johannesburg

at No. 31 British Stationary Hospital, Ermelo

returns to Australia

opens Ermelo Private Hospital

in Egypt

health

in England

death

medals

Gould, Sarah

Graham, Mr

Graham, Lydia

Graham, Maud (Ellen Maud) (later Millar)

youth

early career

journey to Cape Town

at Norval’s Pont concentration camp

on Boer children

at teachers’ convention

at Colesberg

at Fauresmith

at Kroonstad

appearance

returns to Canada

marriage

death

Graham, Samuel

Great Karoo

Greenham, M.

Grey College, Bloemfontein

Groote Schuur

Grundy, Mrs.

guerrilla phase of Boer war

Guise, Henrietta

Gunn, Mr

Günther, Dr Albert

Gwynn, Stephen

Hall, Dr Thomas

Hambly, Mr

Hamilton, General Ian

Hannibal

Hansen-Stormoen, Marius

Harrismith

Haselden, Frederick Melville

Haselden, Hilda Florence (née Ladley) see Ladley, Hilda Florence

Haselden, Norman Walter Veizard (Tim)

Haselden, Winifred Nancy

Hawarden Castle

Hawkesbury High School

Hawkesbury Ladies’ Music Club

Hay, Mary (Mollie)

heat see weather

Hebb, Bertha

Hedberg, Oscar

Hellemans, Adrianus

Hellemans, Atje

Hellemans, Johannes, Jr

Hellemans, Johannes, Sr

Hellemans, Lisette Magdalena (Lies)

youth

early career

journey to South Africa

in Harrismith

at Potgieter’s Farm

declared prisoner

at Intombi camp

at Glencoe

in Pretoria

at Christiana

letters seized

journey to Europe

at Koloniale School

chance meeting with General Hamilton

death

Hellemans, Thomas

Hellemans, Wilhelmina

Hendriks, Mr

Hermans, Mr

Hertzog, J.B.M.

Herzog

Het Groene Kruis, Groningen

Het Vaderland

Highland Brigade

Hines, Fanny

Hofmeyr, Nico

Hollander Corps

Holland, Sidney

Horne, Margaret

Hospital for the Insane, Sydney

hospital trains see trains

hunger

see also food

Hunter, Major General Sir Archibald

Hurcomb, Deborah

Ihle, D.D.

Illustrated London News

Imperial Yeomanry

Intombi camp

Introduction to the Study of Fishes, An

Iraouaddy

Irene concentration camp

Irish/American ambulance

Irish Hospital

Iveagh, Lord

Izedinova, Sophia

Jackson, Sister

Jackson, Elsie

Jacobsdal

Jagersfontein

Jameson, Sir Leander Starr

Johannesburg

Johanson, Jacob

John Elder

Johnston, Julia Bligh

Johnston, Winnifred

Joosten, Trijnko

Joosten, Wijtske (née Sijbrandi) see Sijbrandi, Wijtske

Josson, Maurits

Joubert, Piet Jacobus

Jungstedt, Lieutenant General C.

Kakebeeke, Dr Johannes

Kelso-Hamilton, Mrs

Kenrick, Caroline (Lena)

Keogh, Lieutenant-Colonel

Kimberley

Kinealy, Sister

Kingsley, Charles (brother of Mary Kingsley)

Kingsley, Charles (uncle of Mary Kingsley)

Kingsley, Dr George

Kingsley, Mary (née Bailey)

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

youth

early career

romantic relationships

journey to South Africa

in Simon’s Town

on dying

visits to Kiplings

on Boers

health

death

commemoration

King’s South Africa Medal

Kipling, Carrie

Kipling, Rudyard

Kitchener, Lord

Kliniek en Polikliniek, Rotterdam

Knight, Sister

Koloniale School voor Meisjes en Vrouwen

Koster, Dr I.D.

Krohn, Mr

Kroonstad

Kruger, Mrs

Kruger, Paul

Kruger, Piet

Kruger train

Kunsthandel Joosten

‘Kya Rosa’

Ladley, Hilda Florence (later Haselden)

youth

early career

journey to South Africa

at Merebank camp

at teachers’ conference

health

journey to Skeerpoort

at Irene concentration camp

at Boekenhoutkloof

returns to New Zealand

in Pretoria

marriage

death

Ladley, Walter

Ladysmith, Siege of

Lake Ontario

Laridon, Marie-Louise Caroline

Laurentian

‘Learned Eleventh, The’

Lee, A.M.D.

Lee, Sylvia

Leitz, Dr

Lempriere, Janey

Léon, Capt Sam

Le Peuple

letters seized

Le XXe Siècle

lice see pests

Lichtenburg

Lichtenburg commando

Lichtenburg Section

Liebing, Marie T. J.

Lindberg, Ernst

Lindblom, Anna

Lindblom, Elin Charlotte

youth

early career

joins Scandinavian Ambulance

at Mafeking

at Scholtz Nek

Battle of Magersfontein

in Brakpan

as prisoner of war

in Jacobsdal

at Paardenberg

at Bloemfontein

meets Alice Bron

in Johannesburg

returns to Sweden

medals

Lindblom, Francis Peter

Lingbeek, Dr G.W.S.

locust swarm

London Hospital, The

London Times

Long Tom

looting and theft

Lötter, Cmdt Hans

Lowther Hotel

Luckes, Eva

Lutheran medical mission station

Maartens family

Maartens, Landdrost

Maartens, Mrs

MacDonald, Blanche

Macdonald, Margaret

MacKenzie, Ellen

Mafeking

Magersfontein, Battle of

malaria

Manchester Regiment

Mansveldt, Dr Nicolaas

manure see dung

Maoris

Mary Kingsley Fund

Mary Kingsley Hospital, Liverpool

Mary Kingsley Society of West Africa

Mary Magdalene Hospital, St Petersburg

Masonic Temple Hospital, Kimberley

Matjiesfontein

Matthiolius, Dr H.

Maxfield, Walter

Maximov, Colonel Yevgeny

McCarthy, E.

McGowan, C.S.

McInnes, Annie

McInnes, Eliza (née Morison)

McInnes, Lachlan

McInnes, Margaret M. (later Campbell)

youth

early career

journey to South Africa

in Pretoria

at Irene concentration camp

in Johannesburg

on education

in Potchefstroom

marriage

on weather

death

McInnes-Campbell families

McLeod, Allanetta

McLeod, Helen

McLeod, Ida

meals see food

Medic

Mena Hospital

Merebank concentration camp

Methuen, Lord

Metz, Dr L.

Meuleman, E.

Middelburg Red Cross

Midmay Park College

milk

see also food

Millar, Frederick Gourlay

Millar, Frederick Graham

Millar, Helen Mary

Millar, Maud (née Graham) see Graham, Maud

Millar, Owen Bruce

Milner, Lord

Modder River

contaminated water from

fighting at

Montrose

Moor

Moravian

Morison, Eliza (later McInnes)

Morris, Sister

mortality rate

Mountain Villa Hotel

Mount Nelson Hotel

Murray, Edith

Natal fever

Nathan, Major Matthew

Nationale Kruisvereniging

National Scouts

Native Americans

Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij see NZASM

Nederlandsch Zuid-Afrikaanse Vereeniging see NZAV

Neethling, Dr Andrew Murray

Nelson Evening Mail, The

Netley Hospital, Southampton

‘Netley Sisters’

New Africa journal

New South Wales see NSW

New Zealand Tablet

New Zealand teachers

Nightingale, Florence

Nixon, Elizabeth

No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital

No. 1 General Hospital, Wynberg

No. 2 Australian General Hospital

No. 2 General Hospital, Wynberg

No. 3 British General Hospital, Kroonstad

No. 3 General Hospital, Rondebosch

No. 6 British General Hospital, Johannesburg

No. 8 General Hospital, Bloemfontein

No. 9 General Hospital, Bloemfontein

No. 10 General Hospital, Bloemfontein

No. 10 Stationary Hospital, Naauwpoort

No. 17 Stationary Hospital, Middelburg

No. 19 Stationary Hospital

No. 31 British Stationary Hospital, Ermelo

Noble, Miss

Normal College

Norval’s Pont concentration camp

NSWANSR

NSW Army Medical Corps

NSW Army Nursing Service Reserve see NSWANSR

NSW Hospital Field Brigade

NSW Mounted Infantry

NSW nursing contingent

NSW Public Health Department

Nurses’ Fund Committee

Nursing Record & Hospital World, The

NZASM

NZAV

Old St Andrew’s hospital

Omrah

Oram, Sister

Orcana

orderlies

Orr, Annie

Orr, Elizabeth

Osborne, Dr A.B.

O’Shanahan, Mary

Ottawa Children’s Hospital

Paardeberg, Battle of

Palace Barracks

Palace of Justice

paraffin wax candles

Parker, Mary (Nan)

‘Parting of the Columns, The’

Peace Treaty of Vereeniging

pests

Petit Bleu

Petrusburg

Phillips, Captain Lisle

Pickle, Sophie

Pino, Dr C.

Pocock, Bessie

Poore, Major Montague

Pope, Georgina

full names

youth

early career

uniforms

journey to Cape Town

at No. 1 General Hospital, Wynberg

at No. 3 General Hospital, Rondebosch

in Kroonstad

in Pretoria

travels through Natal

returns to Canada

on British soldiers

returns to South Africa

in Harrismith

returns to Canada again

medals

later career

death

Pope, Helen

Pope, Joseph

Pope, William

Popple, Mary Ann

Portland Hospital

Potchefstroom

Potgieter family

Potgieter’s Farm

President Brand Cemetery

Preston, Amanda

Pretoria

Prince Alfred Hospital

Prince Edward Island

Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve

prisoner-of-war camps

see also concentration camps

Queen’s South Africa Medal

racial bias

Rae, Sister

‘Rakaunui’

Ralston, Jean ( Jane)

RAMC see Royal Army Medical Corps

Rand Daily Mail

Ransley, Edwin Horace

Ravenhead Coal Mine

Red Cross committee, Cape Colony

Rees, Lily

refugee camps see concentration camps

Reinecke, Dr

Reitz, F.W.

reserve forces

Rhodes, Cecil John

Richardson, Marcella

Riggs, Alfred

Rijkens, Dr Reintjo

Rimington’s Guides

Roberts, Lord

Robertson, Mr

Robertson, Ida

Rocher, Mr

Rogers, Sister

Roslyn Castle

Roth, Colonel

Rough Notes on the Teaching of English to Children who Speak Other Languages at Home

Rowlandson, Sister

Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)

Royal Horse Artillery

Royal Hotel

Royal Red Cross Medal

Russell, Elizabeth

Russian Ambulance

Russian–Dutch Ambulance

Ruthstrom, John Rudolph

Ryerson, Lieutenant-Colonel

Sardinian

Sauer, Mr

Scandinavian Ambulance

see also Lindblom, Elin Charlotte

Scandinavian Corps

Schelkly, Dr W.

schools

in concentration camps

farm schools

Schrøder-Nielsen, Ingvald

Schulenburg, August

Schulenburg, Rev. Heinrich

scorpions

see also pests

Scott, Amy

Scottish National Red Cross Hospital

Seaforth Highlanders

Second Dutch Ambulance see Dutch Ambulance, Second

Sellers, W.E.

Seventeenth Lancers

Sharland, Mr

shield, handmade

Sick Sisters’ Home, Johannesburg

Siege of Ladysmith

Sijbrandi, Catharina

Sijbrandi, Rev. Rienk

Sijbrandi, Wijtske (later Joosten)

youth

journey to South Africa

in Pretoria

in Lichtenburg

meets Lies Hellemans

journey to Kimberley

health

as prisoner of war

returns to the Netherlands

marriage

returns to South Africa

retires from teaching

death

Simon’s Town

Simon’s Town Cottage Hospital

Slabbert, H.K.E.

Slessor, Mary

Slot, J.L.H.

Smith, Margaret

snakes

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Somerset Hospital

Somerville-Large, Lieutenant-Colonel

Something of Myself

Soudan Expedition

South Australian Nurses’ Association

South Australian Transvaal Nurses

South School

Staalberg, Lieutenant

Staatsmeisjesschool

Staffordshire Regiment

Standard Bank

Stanton, L.W.

Stationary Hospital, Sterkstroom

Stephenson, Amelia

Sterkstroom

Sternberg, Count Adalbert

Steyn, M.T.

St Helens

St John’s Church, St Helens

St John’s Church, Wakefield

St John’s Hospital, Yonkers

St Kilda Private Hospital

Stoffers, H.E.

Stoker, Dr George

Stolze, Wilhelm

Strangman, N.

suffrage movement

surgical procedures

Svensson, Hildur

Svensson, Johan Emil

Swedish immigration to Transvaal

Swedish Red Cross

Sydney Hospital

Taylor, Margaret (Meg)

Taylor, Roland

teachers

Australian

Canadian

for concentration camps

Dutch

New Zealand

theft see looting and theft

Theological School, Kampen

Thetis

Thouvenot, Madame

Thrush

Tilemann, Dr

Tippetts, L.

Tobaberg, Battle of

Toronto University

Totius see Du Toit, Rev. J.D.

trains, ambulance

Transvaal Red Cross

Travels in West Africa

Trotzmuller, Wolf

Tucker, General

Tweede Boerenbeweging

typhoid fever (enteric fever)

symptoms of

Uggla, Christer

uniforms

United Services College, Devon

Valiants Memorial, Ottawa

Van Breugel, Jeanne

vandalism see looting and theft

Vandeleur Kelly, Colonel

Van der Heyden, Mr

Van Eerten, H.G.C.W.

Van Houten, Dr

Van Houtte, Jean

Van Niekerk, Hugo

Van Oosten, C.J.

Van Sevenhoven, G.

Van Straten, Mr

Van Wyk, G.J.C.

Vermaas, Cmdt Hendrik

Victoria League

Viklund, Nils

volunteer corps

Von Willigh, Mrs

wagons

Waimea Girls School

Wakefield School

Wanderers Club

Ware, Mrs

Warrenton

water see contaminated water

Watson, Archibald

Watts, E.

Wavell, General

weather

Webb, Elizabeth Dora

Weber, Dr Feodor

Weeks, Captain William

Weinberg, Jeannot

West African Studies

West Coast Times

Westerbeek, Sister

Westralia

Willems, Sister

Williams, Frances A.

Williams, Colonel William

Wilson, SG C.W.

Wilson, Lady Sarah

Wilson, General W.D.

Winifredian

Wolmaransstad

Wolwehoek

Women’s Industries Gold Medal

Wood, Colonel Oswald

Woring, Miss

World War I

Wrench, Miss

Wylie, Kassie G.

X-ray machines

Younghusband, Susanna

Zijlstra, Landdrost

Zuurdeeg, Dr