Dedication for soldiers’ nurse

Led by Seymour identity Colonel Jan McCarthy ARRC (Ret), a group visited Mansfield Cemetery recently to dedicate a plaque to Agnes Wotherspoon King.

The group included members of the Returned and Servicewomen’s Sub Branch and the Returned and Services Nurses Club of the Victorian Sub-Branch RSL, of which Col McCarthy is president.

Decedents of Mrs King were delighted by the visit to honour her.

Mrs King served in World War I in Egypt, and after Gallipoli moved to France where she nursed a large number of wounded allied servicemen.

Having worked at a number of hospitals as matron, she died aged 58 in 1942.

She was known, particularly during WWI, as the ‘‘Soldiers’ Nurse’’.

Col McCarthy said she was proud to lead the group to place a remembrance plaque on Mrs King’s grave site in Mansfield.

— Ted Gray