Page 229 from Ethel Moir Diary, Vol 1

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Page 229 from Ethel Moir Diary, Vol 1

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Two newspaper cuttings:

THE LATE MRS. HAVERFIELD
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The Hon. Evelina Haverfield, whose death in Serbia on March 21 was announced in The Times on Thursday, joined, with Dr. Elsie Inglis, the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Serbia when the typhus epidemic was at its height in 1915. She stuck to her post, and went through the horrors of the winter months with the sick and wounded at Krushevatz until taken prisoner by the Germans. She was repatriated in the spring of 1916, and went the following August to Russia as commandant of the motor ambulance and transport with Dr. Inglis, who was in command of a Scottish Women's Hospital unit for South Russia. Here they took part in the retreat from the Dobrudja, giving most valuable service in those trying conditions.
On her return to England in March, 1917, she started the Haverfield Fund for disabled Serbian soldiers, which enabled her to help the Serbian Army when in great need with socks, shirts, and comforts of all sorts. In December, 1918, she again went to Serbia,
and, in addition to her work for soldiers, she started orphanages for the friendless children in the remotest districts. It was when grappling with this difficult task, her strength undermined by the hardships she had faced for so long, that she fell a victim to pneumonia. Mrs. Haverfield received the Serbian Red Cross the Orders of St. George of Russia and of St. Anne of Russia, and the Order of St. Sava, Second Class, a very high order rarely awarded to women.

Artist / maker

Moir, Ethel

Date

1916

Size

20.4 x 16.0 cm

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

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DR. ELSIE INGLIS
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SERBIA'S TRIBUTE.
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Prince George of Serbia formally presented to the Scottish nation yesterday a bust of the late Dr. Elsie Inglis. The ceremony took place in the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, the Lord Provost presiding over a large and representative gathering. The gift was accepted by
the Secretary for Scotland (Mr. R. Munro), who paid a high tribute to Dr. Inglis's work in
Serbia.
M. YOVANOVITCH, Minister Plenipotentiaryfor Serbia, said history would relate how the initiative for the participation of women in this war had had its cradle among the Scottish women, and history would also show that the record work of any women's organisation in this war was the work of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, whose chief and soul was Dr. Elsie Inglis. Serbs and Southern Slavs were happy in their distress and proud in their sufferings that the Scottish and British women had done their greatest work in the war
amongst them and with their Army. The speaker remarked on the resemblance between the story of the Scottish people and that of the
Serbs, and reminded his hearers that the Scottish national bards sang of their nation's
defeat just as the Serbian Guslars had sung of Kossovo.
Alluding to the Scottish women who had fallen victims to their spirit of sacrifice in Serbia, and making special reference to Dr. Elizabeth Ross, Nurse Neil Fraser, Madame Harley, and Dr. Elsie Inglis, the Minister declared that, so as to express in some measure Serbian gratitude and sympathy, he had brought a small gift, the best portrait of their sculptor, Mestrovic, though he made it without ever having seen Dr. Inglis. Another cast of it, he said, was to be placed on the grave at Kragujevats. He hoped the bust might become at Edinburgh a centre of common Scottish and Serbian reverence.
Earlier in the day Prince George and party drove to the Dean Cemetery and deposited a floral tribute on the grave of Dr. Elsie Inglis.

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