DEDICATION “Lest We Forget – Volume # 10 – is dedicated to the memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice during the First World War; the Second World War; the Korean War; by land, by sea and in the air. It is also dedicated to the memory of those Comrades who have since departed this life. “At the going down of the sun and in the morning “We Will Remember Them” Thank You!! Front Cover Photo: ETHEL GERTRUDE DICKINSON MEMORIAL Back cover: Inscription at the base of the Ethel Gertrude Dickinson Memorial ETHEL GERTRUDE DICKINSON MEMORIAL (1880 – 1918) Ethel Gertrude Dickinson was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and was educated at Methodist College. After taking a domestic science course in Guelph, Ontario, she returned to St. John’s to operate the interdenominational Domestic Science School in Harvey Road. In 1915, while visiting England, Ethel began working as a volunteer nurse to wounded Newfoundland soldiers. She later became a full-time volunteer at the Ascot Hospital, possibly as a member of the Volunteer Aid Detachment (VAD), the corps of para-nurses who were a vital part of the war effort. As a volunteer she spent the next several years caring for sick and wounded soldiers in England. She also spent some of her spare time writing to soldiers at the Front or convalescing in other parts of England. These were probably young men from St. John's whom she had grown up with or others she had met in the hospitals where she had volunteered. Three years later she returned to the school, but in 1918 an outbreak of the Spanish Flu forced the school to close. Ethel began caring for the sick at the emergency hospital established at King George V Institute on Water Street. Already in poor health, she contracted the Spanish Flu and died that same year. In an effort to recognize her volunteer contribution to the war effort and during the epidemic, and possibly to recognize, through Dickinson, the contributions of all women who had volunteered in both causes, the citizens of St. John's contributed $4,000 to commission a public monument in her honour. Constructed from grey Aberdeen granite, with a base made from local granite, the 26-foot high monument is a pedestal base surmounted by an eight-sided shaft, crowned with a Celtic cross. It was unveiled by Lady Constance Harris, wife of the governor of Newfoundland, on Oct. 26, 1920. Moved from its original location on the northeast end of Cavendish Square where it adjoined King's Bridge Road, the monument now sits in the centre of the green space which separates Cavendish Square from Ordinance Street. “Lest We Forget” Front Cover Photo: Courtesy of Steve Cooney, Provincial Command Photographer
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