Memorial

Nurses and Members of VAD

Harrow Hospital VAD

Source: Copyright Lucy Haile

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Current Location

Harrow Cottage Hospital, Roxeth Hill, Roxeth, Harrow, Greater London, HA2 0JX, England

TQ 150 860

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 11112
Description: Bronze plaque with relief of nurse at left. At top a scroll bearing the badges of the St John Ambulance Brigade, the British Red Cross Society and the cypher V.A.D..
Inscription: THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES THE/ SELF-DENIAL AND DEVOTION OF/ THE NURSES AND MEMBERS OF THE/ VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT/ WHO MINISTERED TO OUR/ WOUNDED IN THE BUTTS AND/ IN THIS HOSPITAL DURING THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-1919

Maker(s): H H Martyn and Co., Cheltenham, Sculptor
Walter Henry Gilbert, Architect
Maintenance History: HOSPITAL POSSIBLY AT RISK FROM CLOSURE

Unveiled

17 March 1920

Lady Hillingdon

Plaque

Height: 381mm

Width: 603mm

Depth: 5mm

Made from: Bronze

Condition: Good

"WOMEN WAR WORKERS RECOGNITION. HARROW'S BRONZE TABLET." Harrow Observer, 19 March 1920.
"HARROW WOMEN'S WAR WORK. COTTAGE HOSPITAL CEREMONY." Harrow Gazette, 19 March 1920.
"HARROW NURSES. THEIR WAR WORK RECOGNISED. UNVEILING OF TABLET AT COTTAGE HOSPITAL." Harrow Gazette, 26 March 1920.