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Remembering wartime nurse on women's day

March 10, 2016 11:33
US Women co-chairs Jacqui Zinkin and Claire Lemer with Helen Style at the cemetery

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To mark International Women's Day, a ceremony was held at the United Synagogue's Plashet cemetery in east London in memory of a nurse who died on wartime service 100 years ago.

The memorial for Edith Munro, who died aged 23, was led by HM Armed Forces chaplain Rabbi Reuben Livingstone and attended by dignitaries and family members. It followed the discovery of her Commonwealth war grave and headstone by military researcher Stan Kaye.

Mr Kaye found that Nurse Munro had worked at the Albert Dock Hospital in Silvertown, east London, caring for Royal Navy and merchant seamen. She died at the hospital of acute broncho-pneumonia.

"I believe this is the first time a cere-mony such as this has taken place in a Jewish cemetery in the UK and, perhaps, in Europe," Mr Kaye said.

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