Florence NIGHTINGALE
The Florence Nightingale Memorial
The memorial to Florence Nightingale in the crypt of St. Paul’s, was unveiled on February 14th by Her Majesty Queen Mary. The great cathedral was nearly filled, and, as was appropriate, most of the great audience consisted of women, though men of the Army and Navy both came to do homage to the memory of the great woman, to whom both Services owe so much. Ranks of nurses in uniform filled the rows of chairs before the choir and immediately behind the chair reserved for the Queen and Princess Mary. It is the first time, we believe, that such acknowledgment has been made of a woman’s services to the State. Perhaps only in such times as these is the full significance of those words adequately realised, in which thanks were given for the ” gifts which Thou didst bestow upon Thy servant, Florence Nightingale.”
Common Cause – Friday 18 February 1916″
