Memorial Window
Former Servicemen who were nursed during the World War I by Sister Mary Christmas are among the many persons from all parts of New Zealand who have subscribed to the memorial window in her honour which has now been installed in the Christchurch Hospital Memorial Chapel. The stained-glass window, designed and made in England, will be unveiled by two of her fellow-members of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, Misses E. Hodges and J. Erwin, at a dedication service on Sunday. Miss Christmas trained as a nurse at the Christchurch Hospital from 1910 and went overseas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1915. She served in Egypt until 1917, and was in the troop-ship Marquette when it was torpedoed in the Gulf of Salonika in October, 1915. Sister Christmas held various appointments in New Zealand after the war, and in 1923 she was the first tutor sister to be appointed at the Christchurch Hospital. She held this position until 1937. She died in Christchurch in 1964. The funds for the memorial window were raised by the Rose Muir Association, an organisation of nurses and former nurses who trained at the Christchurch Hospital.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31656, 17 April 1968, Page 5
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195Memorial Window Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31656, 17 April 1968, Page 5
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