GREAT UNSEEN HEROES
"Those who know the heroic work of the Field Ambulances know that some of the men should get the Victoria Cross for their actions.” said .Sir R. Heaton Rhode--, president of the Canterbury and West Coast Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association, at the annual meeting. ."They work quietly and silently and are seldom. seen, so that they cannot be recommended for awards.” Sir Heaton said. lie spoke of the war nurses, too. and said that the Order of St. John had had great nurses in the Crusades, in Crimea, had had Florence Nightingale, and would have more great nurses in the present war.
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 19, 19 April 1940, Page 6
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