BURIED WITH MILITARY HONOURS.
HEAD of war-time nursing. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. A full military funeral was accorded Miss Hester Maclean, former director of the Division of Nursing to-day. The Rev. H. E. K. Pry, Chaplain to the Forces, conducted a service at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral and at the Crematorium. Capt. D. H, Donaldson, N.Z. Staff Corps, represented the General Officer Commanding the New Zealand military forces (Major-General Sinclair Burgess). The pall-bearers were supplied by members of the Permanent Staff and the Royal N.Z. Artillery, Wellington. The firing party was under the command of Staff-Sergt.-Major Bauer and was selected from the Permanent Staff at Trentham. The funeral was largely attended by all sections of the community, and in the body of the church were some fifty military nursing sisters who bad served with the forces during the War.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 September 1932, Page 5
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