NURSES' ROLL OF HONOUR

Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1946, Page 7

NURSES' ROLL OF HONOUR

—Press Association

I TO BE IIUNG IN CHAPEL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, July 30. Tlie narnes oi New Zealand uurses who died while serving overseas during the war, are to be inseribed oil a roli of honour, togetlier with those of other Eritish Empire nurses, and placed in a ehapel in Westmiuster Aboey. A fuitu had been estabiished in Britain as a niemorial to nurses and mid-wives who lost their lives in the course of their "duty during the period 1939-15. The fund is ealled the British and Empire Nurses' Aiemorial Eund. .Dominion | nurses have been invited to join with i nurses throughout the Empire, in coui tributing to it. ; The following names of New Zealand { trained nurses will be sent: — j Sister A. M. Buckley, N.Z.A.N.H. ! graduate of tlie Wanganui Hospital j who died in I taly, 1944. j fSister Alma »S. Urampton, N.Z.A.N.S., : graduate of Christchurch Hospital, who . died in Italy, 1944. 1 >Sister Ellen E. Davidson, graduate oi | Dunedin Hospital, diecl in France, 1939, while serving witli the Queen, Alexandra i lmperial Militarv Nursing Bervice. | Aliss Gladys L. Ilughes, Auckland, • graduate of Thames Hospital, 'died while a member of the Australian Army •Nursing fcjervice as a prisoner of the . Japanese in klalaya. ! Miss A. A. Willis, graduate of Wairau Hospital. Blenheim, posted missing at sea when the sliip 011 wliich she was serving as a member of Q.A.LM.N.H, I was torpedoed. 'In addition, six Voluntary Aids died during this period while overseas. The | war niemorial ehapel will be the nurses' : and midwives' own niemorial to theii fallen coileagues. It will be almost side by side with the great niemorial ehapel to airinen of the Battle of Britain, t'or ' tlie place allocated by the Dean and Chapter of the Abbey t'or the proposed niemorial, is the Upper Islip ehapel bv : the 1101th transept just beside tlie choir. Beside, s commemorating fallen nurses, those who served during the war with , the regular nursing services, will be re- ; membered in the motnorial. These are ; the Red Cross, Bt. Jolin members and , V.A.I). '9 wliosc ranks paid a heavy ; toll for their devotion to duty.