A NURSES’ MEMORIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19472, 6 May 1925, Page 12

A NURSES’ MEMORIAL.

INTERESTING SUGGESTION. PARTICIPATION OF EX-SERVICE-MEN. (Fjiom Due Own Cosrespondent.) LONDON, March 24. The announcement that the Extension Fund Committee of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital proposes that the nurses’ homo shall bo specially dedicated to overseas nurses who gave their lives in the war has inspired “Pandora,” of the Sunday Times, with a suggestion. She writes; “The half has not been told of all that •the nurses meant to the sick and wounded, the dying, and even to those bereaved who owed the knowledge of last loving words to the tired nurses who were not 100 tired nor too busy to write to mothers far away. The overseas nurses came from thousands of miles away to help not only their own men. but other British soldiers and sailors, and some of them never wont back. I have seen in France and Belgium the graves of nurses, and I have heard at first hand some of the experiences of those who served on several fronts. I know of overseas nurses who were drowned or killed by bombs, or died of illness in discharge of their duty. Because of these things I have a suggestion to make. “Would not the ex-servicemen like to help in the building or the equipment of this nurses’ homo, for the sake of tire nurses from the British Isles and from the overseas dominions who cared for them and soothed them, and were mothers and sislrrs to them in their dark hours? This should not ho too hard a thing to arrange, rnd it would be a matter of pride to the musing, profession, I think, that their soldier patients wished to be associated with a work which is dependent upon the nurses. Do you remember Kipling's ‘Dirge of Dead Sisters’? . Wherefore wc they ransomed, while the breath is in our nostrils, How and not hereafter, as the meaner years go by— Praise with love and worship many honourable women, Those that gave their lives for us when wo were like to die. “What better inscription could accompany a gift from the ex-servicemen to the proposed nurses’ home?”