Military Service Recognition Book - Volume 10

Ethel Gertrude Dickinson 1880 - 1918 The Inscriptions at the Base of the Monument erected for Ethel Gertrude Dickinson (Photo Right) on two opposite sides read as follows: “This shaft, surmounted by the world emblem of sacrifice, is set up by a grateful public in memory of Ethel Dickinson volunteer nurse who in the great epidemic of 1918 gave her life while tending patients at the King George the Fifth Institute, St. John’s. In honour also of those who nursed with her in the imminent shadow of death.” On the other two sides: “Be Thou Faithful Unto Death and I Will Give Thee A Crown of Life.”

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