Katherine Mary Harley

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Reference WMO/237791

Address:

Parade Shopping Centre

St Mary's Place

Shrewsbury

SY1 1DL

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Situated just inside the doors of the main lobby on the left is a rectangular bronze plaque with decorated borders and inscription in relief. She was a sister of Viscount French and the widow of Colonel G E Harley CB of Condover House. Went to France early in the war with the Scottish Women's Hospital which was raised by the National Women's Suffrage Societies. In July 1916 she took charge of a flying column of motor ambulances in Macedonia to be attached to the Serbian Army there and rescuing and evacuating allied soldiers. For this work, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French. In December she left SWH in order to work in an independent motor ambulance unit for the civilian Serbian population of Monastir.. She had served in a hospital and had the idea of creating, and running, a “flying column” in 1917 by an enemy shell as she was feeding starving Serbian civilians. The Shopping Centre was formerly the Royal Salop Infirmary.
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IN HONOURED MEMORY/ OF/ KATHERINE MARY HARLEY/ WHO DID GALLANT SERVICE FOR MANY YEARS ON BEHALF OF WOMEN & CHILDREN/ KILLED BY A SHELL AT MONASTIR MARCH/ 7th 1917 WHILE TENDING THE DISTRESSED/ SERBIANS DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

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