MEMORIAL TO 40 SCOTTISH NURSES

[Indunna]

MEMORIAL TO 40 SCOTTISH NURSES at St. Giles in Edinburgh

The British journal of Nursing - Volume 67, 12th November 1921 (p304)

MEMORIAL TO SCOTTISH NURSES.

No more fitting shrine could have been found for the Memorial erected by members of the

Military Nursing Services in memory of their Scottish colleagues who gave their lives in the Great

War than the grand old Cathedral of St. Giles in Edinburgh, where the worn colours of many a

brave Scottish regiment decorate the stately edifice.

It was unveiled with fitting ceremonial on Nov. 3rd, by Lieut.-General Sir Francis Davies, K.C.B.,

in the presence of a large number of relatives of the nurses commemorated, representatives of

various nursing associations, and prominent citizens of Edinburgh. The memorial is a bronze

tablet set in green marble on which the names of the nurses are inscribed.

During the war 150 nurses lost their lives owing to enemy action or disease.

Of that number, forty were Scottish nurses. Their names, which appear on the memorial, are as follows :

QUEEN ALEXANDRA IMPERIAL MILITARY NURSING SERVICE.

* Sister. Joan G. Dalton.

MILITARY FAMILIES NURSING SERVICE.

Matron. Mary MacGill.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA IMPERIAL MILITARY NURSING SERVICE RESERVE.

Sisters.

Ellen Armstrong.

Ella Maud Bond,

Christina Jack.

Isabella Mackenzie.

Helen Milne.

Jeanie B. Smith.

Christina M. Wilson.

Staff Nurses.

Helena S. Bennet.

Margaret S. Dewar.

Elizabeth Edgar.

Bessie Harkness.

Christina M. F. Kemp.

Margaret A. MacBeth.

Mary B. Marshall.

Agnes G. Mann.

Jessie E. MacRobbie.

Annie C. Reid.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA IMPERIAL MILITARY NURSING SERVICE RESERVE - cont.

Staff Nurses.

Jessie Ritchie

Elizabeth R. Thomson.

Mary Watson.

Myrtle E. Wilson.

TERRITORIAL FORCE NURSING SERVICE.

Sister.

May Grant.

Helen M. Hastings.

Isabel Meldrum.

Staff Nurses.

Agncs M. Climie.

Beatrice G. F. Forbes.

Jessie S. Jamieson.

Mary T. Kerr.

Mabel Milne.

Mary Mackinnon.

Margaret B. Marnoch.

Jessie J. Paterson.

Edith Simlpson.

Wilma B. Stewart.

Assistant Nurses.

Hannah D. Mark.

Elizabeth M'Donald.

Caroline C. C. Miller.

Christian M'Combie.

Of the forty nurses, four were lulled by enemy action, three were drowned whilst serving on

hospital ships, and 33 died of diseases arising from military service. Only two were members of the

regular Military Nursing Service, and the others were members of Queen Alexandra's Imperial

Military Nursing Service Reserve, and the Territorial Force Nursing Service who had been called

up from civil employment.

The Rev. Dr. Wallace Williamson conducted the memorial service, and the Dowager-Countess of Airlie, President of the Memorial Committee, on behalf of the donors, asked Lieut.-General Sir Francis Davies to perform the unveiling ceremony.

[dhubthaigh]

There is a photograph of the memorial on the Scottish War Memorials Discussion forum here;

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic....orum=warmemscot

It would be great if you could add some of this info to the thread, it was most interesting.

rgds.,

Mark

[Indunna]

Thanks for the picture

please post info up to other forum

regards Jennifer