Nurses Memorial, Salford Royal Hospital Building
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Nurses Memorial, Salford Royal Hospital Building
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 11 Mar 2014
The hospital sustained a direct hit in a Luftwaffe bombing raid in 1941, in which fourteen nurses lost their lives. This plaque on the Chapel Street side of the building was unveiled in 1944 by the Duchess of Kent as a memorial. It reads: THIS PANEL RECORDS THE NAMES OF FOUTEEN NURSES WHO LOST THEIR LIVES AT THE HOSPITAL DURING AN AIR RAID JUNE 2nd 1941 FOURTEEN BEDS HAVE BEEN ENDOWED IN PERPETUITY TO COMMEMORATE THEIR DEVOTION TO DUTY SISTER DORIS PRESTON CHEADLE CHES STAFF NURSES VERA CREIGHTON COROFIN EDITH HASLAM BURY MAUREEN LYNCH ENNIS PROBATIONERS BRIDGET LEONARD ATHLONE MARGARET LOWERY ST HELENS PHILOMENA McCROSSAN STRABANE ROSE MOFFATT ST HELENS HELEN SHERIDAN ST HELENS PRELIMINARY TRAINING SCHOOL DOROTHY BURSLEM STACKSTEADS ELSIE OKELE BUCKLEY MARTHA STOTT MIDDLETON DORIS TYSON ULVERSTON THIS PANEL WAS UNVEILED BY H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT FEBRUARY 16th 1944
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