On This Day, 6 November 1917

Birmingham Daily Post

Tuesday 6 November 1917

BIRMINGHAM LADY HONOURED

Mrs. A. F. Porter, Lady Corps Superintendent of the Birmingham Nursing Corps, and Commandant of the Highbury Hospital, has been appointed a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John. Mrs Porter has taken a notable part in the work of the St. John Ambulance Association in Birmingham. When the war broke out she organised women’s ambulance classes, and as commandant she took charge of the squad of women who met the first ambulance train that came into Birmingham. This squad not only met the train, but fed the wounded, the arrangements for this first effort of the kind being made in little more than an hour. Since then, under Mrs. Porter’s direction, the rest station at Snow Hill has been organised and developed until it is now acknowledged to be not only the largest, but in all respects the best rest station in the country.

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