On This Day
On This Day, 6 January 1916
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Birmingham Mail
6th January 1916
“THE SOUTHERN CROSS.”
BIRMINGHAM MILITARY HOSPITAL JOURNAL
In connection with the 1st Southern General Hospital, R.A.M.C.T., Birmingham, which compromises the Edgbaston, Dudley Road, Stourbridge, Selly Park and King’s Heath institutions, a month journal is being established under the appropriate title of “The Southern Cross,” a name which combines the designation of the hospital with the emblem of its work. It is excellently produced – the contents and illustrations showing an admirable diversity in style and tone- and if the merits of the first number are maintained in subsequent issues the future of the magazine should be assured.
In a “Foreword” the administrator of the hospital (Lieut.-Colonel Marsh), of whom a very good portrait is given, explains that “it has been felt by many that an attempt should be made to chronicle events which happen in the daily routine of the hospital – grave and gay; to tell of things and persons but avoiding personalities. In the hope of accomplishing this ‘The Southern Cross’ appears. From the able hands of the editor and his coadjutors it goes forth in the full hope that it will be found worthy of retention for reference in years to come when it I wished to refresh memories – pleasant but possibly not untinged with sadness – of what the reader or his friends did for their country in the greatest war the world has ever seen.
Birmingham Daily Gazette
6th January 1916
ARMY WEDDING
Bride & Bridegroom Mentioned in Despatches
The marriage of Nurse Grace Dorothy McCrae, daughter of Mrs. McCrae, 23, Edgbaston-road, to Captain George Henderson Stevenson of the Royal Army Medical Corps, was quietly solemnised in St. Alban’s Church, Conybere-street, Birmingham, at noon yesterday.
Both the bride and bridegroom were mentioned in the recent despatch for their fine work in a hospital on the western front. There were only a few intimate friends present in addition to the relatives. These included Miss Murson, the matron of the 1st Southern General Hospital, who was the chief of the nursing staff at the Birmingham General Hospital when the bride was undergoing her training.
The service was conducted by the Rev. F. H. Gillingham, a personal friend of the bride and bridegroom, and formerly the vicar of Holy Trinity, Bordesley.
The bridegroom was in uniform, while his bride was in a costume of brown cloth. She wore skunk furs and a brown velvet hat wreathed with a pretty coloured ostrich plume. Her bouquet was of pink carnations, lilies of the valley, and white chrysanthemums. There were no bridesmaids.
Captain Stevenson expects to return to France shortly.
