Qui Nhon Nurse Awarded Medal

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31097, 28 June 1966, Page 2

Qui Nhon Nurse Awarded Medal

(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, June 26. The New Zealand nurse who died from illness in Saigon las* month, Miss Lesley Estelle Cowper, has received the first class Distinguished Service Medal of South Vietnam for her untiring work for Vietnamese patients in the hospital at Qui Nhon. The posthumous citation, announced from Saigon, said Miss Cowper was a member of the New Zealand surgical team at Qui Nhon, and was “a model nurse.” Miss Cowper spared neither land and was granted leave of

I absence for the Vietnam assignment. time nor care looking after her patients, it said, and she won the heart of the Vietnamese people. The medal was awarded by the chairman of the South Vietnamese Directory, Lieu-tenant-General Nguyen van Ohieu. Miss Cowper died from a sudden illness in a Saigon Hospital on May 2 after serving as a ward sister at the Qui Nhon Hospital from November, 1965. She was previously employed as a nursing sister at the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.