Louth - Photo: Boer War Army Hospital, Natal S. Africa June 1900

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File contributed by: Michelle Wilson micpaint.wilson@gmail.com
August 23, 2011, 6:31 am

PHOTO: BOER WAR ARMY HOSPITAL, NATAL S. AFRICA JUNE 1900

Source:  Family Album

Martha Sabina Farley (born 1871) receiving nursing training
at at Sir Patrick Dun Hospital in Dublin and was attached to
Princess Christians Army Nursing Reserve #358 where she
served at the Army Field Hospital in Napal, S. Africa for
the duration of the war and was decorated by King George V.
In WW1 she was dispatched to a field hospital in Flanders
where she and others were gassed and she never fully
recovered and died 3 years later.