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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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