MISS ANNE PATTRICK

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1937, Page 16

MISS ANNE PATTRICK

GRAVE IN SOLDIERS' SECTION (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, September 25. The funeral of Miss Anne Pattrick (Christchurch), formerly Nursing Director of the Plunket 'Society, New Zealand, who died on September 19, took place yesterday at the Brookwood Cemetery, Woking. A short service was held in London at the Necropolis, Waterloo Station, and was attended by a large number of friends, the majority of whom were present at the graveside service. A great many wreaths were laid on the grave, which is situated in the New Zealand soldiers' section.

Among those present at the London service were Lady Galway (chairwoman of the executive of the Mothercraft Training Society), Dr. R. C. Jewesbury (honorary medical director of the Mothercraft Training Society), Mr. H. T. B. Drew (representing the New Zealand High Commissioner and the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association), Mrs.

Murdo MacCrae ' (representing the Hataitai branch of the Plunket Society), Miss M. Liddiard (Nursing Director of.the Mothercraft Training Society), Dame Alicia Lloyd Still (matron of St. Thomas's Hospital), and Miss G. V. Hillier (assistant matron of St. Thomas's Hospital), both represent-t ing the Nightingale Training School; Miss F. Hedderwick (matron, Cromwell House), Sir Hugh and Lady Acland, Mr. and Mrs. Tythe Brown (Wellington), Miss Thurston (Christchurch), Miss Baker, Miss Bingham (Otago), Mrs. Cameron (Wellington), Miss Cartwright (New Plymouth), Miss Chandler (New Plymouth), Miss Campbell, Miss Grant (New Plymouth), Miss I. Hawkins (Hamilton), Misses Kahn (Wellington), Mrs. F. A. Kidd (Auckland), liss J. Livingston (Auckland), Miss L. Miller (Hastings), Miss E. Paynter (Stratford), Miss J. Samson (Wellington), Mrs. Tiller and Miss Wilson, Miss Naismith, Miss Hooper, Miss Hillsyoung, Sister Birley, and Sister Elizabeth (St. Thomas's Hospital). Wreaths were sent by the Mothercraft Training Society, the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, the Plunket Nurses of New Zealand, the matron and sisters of the Nightingale Training School, New Zealand Nursing Sisters in England, the staff, Cromwell House, Highgate, .sisters and brothers, and another "In sacred memory of the life and . devotion to Humanity of one of New Zealand's greatest women." Miss M. Liddiard,- S.R.N., S.C.M., wrote the following note of appreciation which'was published in ."The Times:—"My first meeting with her was in 1918, when she pioneered the Mothercraft Training Society through its early difficult days. Her personality was an outstanding one, it could be felt when she entered a room. Those of us who were privileged to train under her were inspired and enthused in a way difficult to explain. When visiting New Zealand I found that she created the same spirit of love and devotion to duty that she had in England. She was looked up to as friend, guide, and.adviser by all her nurses. She was truly great, human, humorous; she had a large heart and big interests; she loved human beings, Nature, birds, and all life. She will be missed by her friends in many countries as her activities were worldwide." . ,