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# Service of dedication held for new nursing memorial in Alrewas
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/service-of-dedication-held-for-new-nursing-memorial-in-alrewas/
- Published: 2018-06-05T07:47:03.000Z
- Updated: 2018-06-05T07:47:05.000Z
- Description: Dignitaries and former nurses have attended a service of dedication at the National Memorial Arboretum.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Alrewas, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:23, News

Dignitaries and former nurses have attended a service of dedication at the National Memorial Arboretum.

[![The ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum. Pic: Richard Pursehouse](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nursing-memorial-4-june-2018-nma-richard-pursehouse-2-1.jpg)](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2018/06/05/service-of-dedication-held-for-new-nursing-memorial-in-alrewas/nursing-memorial-4-june-2018-nma-richard-pursehouse-2-2/)

The ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum. Pic: Richard Pursehouse

More than 200 invited guests, including the Countess of Wessex, visited Alrewas to mark the unveiling of the the memorial commemorating the service of professional and voluntary aid detachment nurses.

Among them was 97-year-old Ethel Lote, who treated troops returning from Dunkirk at the Burntwood Military Hospital during World War Two.