RORKE, Meina

Nurse Meina RORKE.

Nursing Service in the Boer War

Nurse Melina RORKE was a civilian nurse who cared for the British sick and wounded during the Boer War.

Honours and Awards

RRC for service at Buluwayo

After Military Service

Bulawayo. Mrs. Melina Rorke is listed as a civilian nursing sister. She is reported as having nursed at Memorial Hospital in Bulawayo, Rhodesia; Kimberley; and was posted to Pretoria on 25 Mar 1903. Supporting Melina's own account of her war exploits, she was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1902. Melina is mentioned in a dispatch by Lord Roberts on 01 Mar 1902. Her medal was presented by King Edward VII in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 26 Oct 1902.