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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 5

One of the most famous hospital nurses- in the Empire, Dame Alicia Lloyd Still, for 25 years matron of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, has retired this- week after 50 years of nursing. She was a probationer at “Thomas’s”, and before she left she was entertained at a farewell party by members of the hospital staff of 20 years’ or more service. She will still act in an advisory capacity to the many national and international nursing bodies of which she is a member. Fair-haired Miss Evelina Calvert, who with her grandmother, mother, and five sisters escaped by. the last, train from Madrid to Valencia, and thence to England, has announced her engagement to Mr. Thomas Storey, of the R.A.F. Her five sisters,-the youngest of whom is only three, will act as her bridesmaids at her April wedding.