INDENTPrivate James Nutter was one of 14 men from the St. John's Ambulance Association to serve in the hospital ship, Maine during both the South African and China Wars, 1900 (both Private Nutter's campaign awards are held by the Museum of the Order of St. John). At the commencement of the South African War, a number of American Ladies, headed by Lady Randolph Churchill, raised funds to equip a hospital ship for service in South Africa. An insufficient sum was raised, but the President of the Atlantic Transport Line, Mr. B. Baker, converted the cargo ship Maine, at his own expense, into a hospital vessel and later presented the Maine to the Royal Navy to act as their first permanent hospital ship.