A WOMAN’S VISION.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 939, 8 December 1933, Page 1

A WOMAN’S VISION.

War Memorial That Grew Out of Dream. LONDON, December 2 A romantic story of how a led to the restoration of the Five S*sters window in York Minster, which the Duchess of York unveiled in 1925 as a memorial to women who gave their lives in the Great War, is told in a letter which Mrs Helen Little left to be published after her death. She related how she saw the first wotinded arriving in Cairo from Galiipoli, and witnessed the untiring devotion of nurses and other women, some of whom sacrificed their lives to alleviate the men’s sufferings. “ I was often wondering after the war,” she w’rote, “ what memorial would be possible for the women whose supreme sacrifice apparently had been forgotten, when, in 1922, I had a vision. I was entering York Minster for evensong and sawtwo whit:-clad figures, one beckoning to me and the other pointing to the Five Sisters window. “ I recognised them as my sisters, who had died in childhood, and looked at the window, which was opened, revealing an exquisite garden, with five women sitting in the shade of a gu-at tree and many girls and women, clad in grey blue, approaching. As the vision faded, I saw- both the children pointing to the window, whereupon I awoke, crying, ‘ A sisters’ window for the sisters

“ The Times ” recalls that £32,000 was subscribed throughout the Empire in nine weeks for the restoration, though only £3OOO was needed.