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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:30 pm Post subject: WW1 Nurses, Elder Memorial Chapel Western General Infirmary |
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UKNIWM Ref 54573
Located in the Elder Memorial Chapel in Glasgow Western Infirmary at OS Map Ref NS 563 666.
The infirmary is scheduled for redevelopment in 2013 and it seems unlikely that the chapel will survive so the future of this memorial is yet to be decided.
Name: BOND, ELLA MAUD
Initials: E M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sister
Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Unit Text: 2nd Reserve
Age: 31
Date of Death: 03/11/1918
Service No: B/1302
Awards: A R R C
Additional information: Daughter of Charles F. and Isabella D. Bond, of 48, King St., Southport.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 43. C. 2.
Cemetery: GRIMSBY (SCARTHO ROAD) CEMETERY
Name: DEWAR
Initials: M S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Staff Nurse
Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Unit Text: (Reserve)
Date of Death: 12/03/1917
Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 1554.
Cemetery: MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA
I think this is the first time I have seen a nurse mentioned in dispatches.
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Both are listed on the nurses memorial in St Giles in Edinburgh
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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From Hidden Glasgow: http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3077
From the British Medical Journal , Dec 19th 1925
'Two war memorials were unveiled in the chapel of the Glasgow Western Infirmary on December 12th, in the presence of a large number of nurses and members of the general public. The matron of the infirmary, Miss Gregory Smith, unveiled a memorial in memory of Lieutenant Donald Mackintosh, V.C., son of the superintendent of the infirmary, Colonel D. J. Mackintosh, C.B., M.V.O., which took the form of two stained glass windows erected by the Nurses' League. A tablet was unveiled also in memory of two nurses, Sister Ella Maud Bond and Staff Nurse Margaret S. Dewar, who lost their lives in the war. The Rev. George H. Morrison, D.D., conducted a commemoration service, and delivered an address in which he recalled the high esteem and affection in which those whom they were commemorating had been held. Such a joint commemoration was particularly appropriate because of the united comradeship, co-operation, and self-sacrifice of the two sexes in the great war. Colonel Mackintosh for many years had directed the Western Infirmary with a grasp of detail which had placed him high in the ranks of organizers; no man had surpassed him in devotion to the welfare of the great nursing profession. It was, therefore, fitting that in remembering the son the Nurses' League should also bear the father in mind. The two windows were the first of a series to be placed in the chapel. The matron of the infirmary, unveiling the memorials, spoke of the high esteem and regard in which Lieutenant Mackintosh and the two nurses had been held by the infirmiary staff. Colonel J. A. Roxburgh, accepting the custody of the memorials on behalf of the infirmary board of managers, said that they would serve to remind them of the spirit of devotion to duty and self-sacrifice which had always
distinguished the medical and nursing professions. At the conclusion of the service wreaths were placed at the base of the memorials.' |
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