Rosie & Robbie

Rosemary Sandercock and Winnifred Robinson (Robbie) worked for AMREF or as it was known when they started, the flying doctor service.

Rosemary and Robbie (Sister Winifred Robinson) became a legend with the Maasai community throughout Kenya and parts of Tanzania, through their remarkable teamwork over twenty years.

Dr. Paul Zuckerman, Board member of both AMREF (African Medical Research and Education Foundation), Nairobi, and AMREF U.K.

They lived and worked in Nairobi, Kenyan for many years from the 1960s before also completing assignments in other African countries finally retiring to peaceful Norfolk, England.

An article about Rosemary Sandercock and her colleague Robbie appeared in AMREF News. 

Read the tribute to at her Memorial Service.

More information about the continuing amazing work of AMREF can be found on their website. The stamps below include photos taken of Robbie and Rosie at work.

They often set up the mobile clinic under a tree for shade. This formed the basis of one of the stamps
20 March 1980 Flying Doctor Service First Day Cover 50c stamp
20 March 1980 Flying Doctor Service First Day Cover Leaflet1
20 March 1980 Flying Doctor Service First Day Cover Leaflet2
20 March 1980 Flying Doctor Service First Day Cover Leaflet3
20 March 1980 Flying Doctor Service First Day Cover Leaflet4
20 March 1980 East African Flying Doctor Service
A First Day Cover set of stamps featured their work
Rosie’s resting place in Norfolk
A tree dedicated to Rosie at AMREF office in Nairobi
A bush dedicated to Rosie at AMREF office in Nairobi
Robbie and Rosie at home in Norfolk
Robbie caring at a mobile medical unit in the bush
At the Palace – Robbie and Rosie with John Craven a journalist who had met and prepared stories with them in Kenya