HEROINE OF THE CRIMEA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 7

HEROINE OF THE CRIMEA.

4 SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S. MISS NIGHTINGALE'S FUNERAL. GREAT BENEFACTRESS GONEUy Teleera.pli—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. August 22, 0.20 a.m.) London, August 21.Largo crowds attended Miss Nightingale's funeral, which proceeded from where the death occurred 'in South Street to "Waterloo Station, and thero entrained for East Wcllov, Wiltshire, where her parents aro buried. There was a great profusion of wreaths. Queen Alexandra sent a cross of orchids, inscribed: "In memory of the greatest benefactress of suffering humanity." lien of file Grenadier, Coldstream, and Scots Guards carried the coffin to tho train, and acted as a bearer partyat East Wellow. Tho wreaths included one from tho Tasinanian Nurses' Association. Tho Royal Victorian Trained Nurses also sent a telegram, and .there were many other colonial tributes. Five thousand persons attended the memorial service at St. Paul's Cathedral. ; '" ■ I King George, Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, the Duke of Connaught, -Princess Christian, and Mr. Asquith were represented, as were- also the War Office, the Admiralty, the hospitals, tho mtrsmg profession, Home and Foreign Red Cross Societies, Mr. Whitelaw Reid (American Ambassador) and his wife, 'and a brilliant group of Army and Navy officers and privates. Seven hundred nurses were gathered under the Dome together with forty Crimean veterans.