Women of the Empire Screen

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Reference WMO/265308

Address:

York Minster

Deansgate

York

YO1 7HH

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Screen
Materials:
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Wooden screen with names inscribed behind twelve wooden doors. Inscription on a gold background in black painted lettering. The actual Five Sisters Window is WMO 181574.
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THIS SCREEN RECORDS THE NAMES OF THE WOMEN OF THE EMPIRE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR 1914 - 1918 TO WHOSE MEMORY THE FIVE SISTERS WINDOW WAS RESTORED BY WOMEN/ GRANT UNTO THEM O LORD, ETERNAL REST STANDING AS I DO IN/VIEW OF GOD AND/ETERNITY, I REALIZE/THAT PATRIOTISM IS/NOT ENOUGH. I MUST/HAVE NO HATRED OR/BITTERNESS TOWARDS/ANYONE."/Edith Cavell/Brussels, Oct 12, 1915 Panel 1- QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S ROYAL NAVAL NURSING SERVICE/OFFICERS/[names]/WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE/OFFICER/[name]/RATINGS/[names] Panel 2- QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S IMPERIAL MILITARY/ NURSING SERVICE/[names in 3 columns]/ QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S IMPERIAL MILITARY NURSING /SERVICE FOR INDIA/[names] Panel 3-QUEEN MARY'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS/[names] Panel 4-WOMEN'S ROYAL AIR FORCE/[names] Panel 5- Roll of Honour of British Trained Nurses serving under the/JOINT WAR COMMITTEE of the Order of St. John and the British/Red Cross Society who gave their lives in the War of 1914-1918/[names]/Members of Voluntary Aid Detachments who lost their lives on/Active Service/[names] Panel 6-MEDICAL WOMEN/[names]/BRITISH WOMEN'S HOSPITALS/[names]/Endell Street Military Hospital/[names]/AUXILIARY HOSPITALS/[names]/BRITISH COMMITTEE OF THE FRENCH RED CROSS/[names] Panel 7-CANADIAN NURSING SISTERS WHO SERVED WITH THE/OVERSEAS MILITARY FORCES/MATRONS/[names]/NURSING SISTERS/[names]/DOMINION OF NEWFOUNDLAND/[name] Panel 8- MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE/AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCES/[names]/AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY/[names] Panel 9-MEMBERS OF THE NEW ZEALAND ARMY NURSING SERVICE/[names]/Attached/[names] Panel 10-SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY NURSING SERVICE/[names]/COLONIAL NURSING ASSOCIATION/[names] Panel 11-MERCANTILE MARINE STEWARDESSES/[names]/MUNITIONS WORKERS/[names] Panel 12-WOMEN'S FORAGE CORPS/[names]/WOMEN'S LEGION MOTOR TRANSPORT/[names]/SERBIAN RELIEF FUND/[names]/FRIENDS' WAR VICTIMS RELIEF COMMITTEE/[names]/WOMEN'S EMERGENCY CANTEENS/[names]/YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION/[names]

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