Memorial

St Mary Abbots Hospital Nurses - Window

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St Mary Abbots Hospital, Marloes Road, Kensington, Kensington And Chelsea, Greater London, W8 5UP, England

TQ 25622 79120

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Type of Memorial: Window
WMR Reference Number: 85035
Description: Memorial window in memory of the eight nurses from St Mary Abbots Hospital killed during WW2. The window was built in memory of these nurses, who, regardless of the heavy bombing, stayed on duty until the end. The church was also damaged by the bombing and most of the windows blown out. The window tells the story of the bombing and shows St. George of England with a sister and nurse kneeling in adoration among the ruins of the hospital. It measure nine feet by two. The Matron hoped to add more windows later. Six sisters and nurses in the bombing. Either fourteen or seventeen patients (including six children) were killed in air raids during the way With the demolition of the hospital and changes to the site, not sure of the location of the window and tablet.
Inscription: The East Window "This window was restored by the friends and nurses of St Mary Abbots' Hospital in grateful appreciation of our revered colleague, the late Miss Harriet Amelia Alsop, M.B.E., Dame of Grace, Order of St John of Jerusalem, who left us on December 13th, 1951.

War: Second World War - civilians
Number Commemorated: 8
Died: 8
Additional Information: Six nurses killed at St Mary Abbott, 2 others elsewhere.

Unveiled

26th February 1949

Miss Harriet Amelia Alsop, Matron of St. Mary Abbots from 1907 to 1930.

Dedicated

26th February 1949

Bishop of Southwark

Window

Made from: Stained Glass

Condition: Unknown

Kensington Post - Friday 04 March 1949 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002500/19490304/012/0001 Nurses on duty 'listen in' as war comrades are honoured. Also Kensington News and West London 27 November 1953 and Kensington Post 27 November 1953
LOST HOSPITALS OF LONDON https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/stmaryabbots.html