DR. ELSIE INGLIS
SERBIA'S TRIBUTE. Pi'inci) George of Serbia formally presented to the bcoitish nation receutiy a bust, of the late Dr. Elsie, Inglis. 'iJie ceremony twk place in the Kuyal Scutt.sh; Academy, Edinburgh, the Lord l'rovust presiding over aJurge and representative gatiieiing. Tlie gut mis accepted by tho Secretary for Scotland (iUr. It. iUunro), wiio paid u high tribute to Dr. lnglis's work in Serbia. M. Yovuuovitcli,. Plenijio';eiitiary for Serbia, said history would relate how tho initiative for the participation of women in this wi|.r had had its cradle among tho Scottish women, and history would also show that tho record work of any women's organisation in this war, was the work of tho Scottish Women's Hospitals, whoso chief and soul was Dr. Eisio Injlis. Serbs and Southern Slavs were happy in thoir distress and proud, in their sufferings that the Scottish and. British women had dojio their greatest work in the war amongst them' and with their anny. Tho sneaker remarked-on the resemblance between the stury of the Scottish people nnd that of tho Serbs, and reminded his hearers that the Scottish national bards sang of their nation's .defeat just .as- tho Serbian Guslars had sung of Kossovo / Alluding to" the' Scottish' Women who had- fallen victims to their spirit of sacrifice in Serbia, and making special vcferenco to Dr. Elizabeth .Ross, Nurse Neil Eraser, Madame Hurley, and Dr. Elsie Inglis, the Minister declared that, so as to express in some measure Serbian gratitude and sympathy, he had brought a small gift, the best portrait of their sculptor, Mcstrovic, though lie made it without ever having seen Dr. Inglis. Another cast of it, he said, wa.s to be placed on the grave at Kragujevats. He hoped the bust might become at Edinburgh a centre of common Scottish and-Serbian reverence!
.Earlier in the day Prince George and party drove to the' Dean Cemetery and deposited a (ioral tribute on the grave of Dr. Elsie Inglis, "
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 2
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326DR. ELSIE INGLIS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 2
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