HEROINE OF PALESTINE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1939, Page 6

HEROINE OF PALESTINE

MISS ROGERS’S FINE 'WORK. Acclaimed as “the Palestine heroine.” Miss Winifred Rogers, of Bournemouth, has been receiving shoals of congratulatory letters upon her heroic work in Jerusalem, where she is head of the infant welfare and maternity centres. She entered an area that troops had not been able to penetrate, although warned that she did so at her own risk, and with, three native assistants distributed 6000 leaves to the starving people. Miss Rogers, who has been nine months in Palestine, was trained as a nurse at Charing Cross Hospital during the war. She has been a sister in Army hospitals on the North-west Frontier of India and the Punjab. In the Jubilee Honours List she was awarded the King's Medal, and in the Coronation Honours’ List received the M.B.E. "My sister simply lives for her work out there.” her brother told a reporter. "She' speaks Arabic and Hebrew, and is responsible for training both Arab and Jewish girls as midwives. I understand from a friend that she is so respected that there is not an Arab or a Jew in the country who would harm her, because they, realise the splendid work, she is doing.”