NURSING CHIEF RETIRES.
With the retirement of Dame Ethel Hope Becher from the position of Ma-tron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Kursing Service, which, jit is'understood, takes place this month, a great figure will pass from the public service of Great Britain, the Kitchener, as sho has been termed, of Army nursing. Trained under the late Miss Eva Luckes, the famous matron of the London Hospital, Dame Becher had already seen service and won honour in the South African campaign, and was about to ' retire when war broke out, but the authorities persuaded her to reconsider her decision. All through the war years her work has involved constant anxiety. She has had to find the nurses for everv military hospital at home and abroad, whether in Salonica, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Italy, the Mediterranean, or Flanders. It may be mentioned that Dame Becher was the first to gain the distinction of a bar to the Royal R e d Cross.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16507, 26 April 1919, Page 10
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NURSING CHIEF RETIRES.
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16507, 26 April 1919, Page 10
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