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[weeKnightingale]

No try again!

[Doc Vernon]

Well then you got me!
This is from WIKI Answers

Florence Nightingale was 'The lady with the lamp' because at night, in the hospitals it was dark and they had no electricity, so she walked around with a lantern instead.
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[weeKnightingale]

Castleman, you are right. History has called her that and she will always be known as that: but she was known by the soldiers by another title.

[Doc Vernon]

The Soldiers knew her as the Lady-in-Chief
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[weeKnightingale]

Oops! Sorry about the quote thing!


The answer she was called the Lady-in-Chief by the soldiers. Little known facts!

[Doc Vernon]

As far as can be established about the Lady in Chief it supposedly happened when Florence was very ill with Typhus (Crimean Fever) and Lord Raglan then Commander In Chief went to visit her on her sickbed,but he kept himself unknown only as a Soldier!
This however became known and from then Florence was known as Lady in Chief!
This is of course not firmly established,but makes good sense!
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[happy daze john in oz]

The lady with the lamp. She distingushed her self during the Crimea war if I am corrcet. She was admired by the soldiers for her compassion and devotion to duty. Ofte seen late at night comforting a dying soldier, and it is reported often wrote to loved ones to inform them of their loved ones situation.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Karola
Well i havent given up yet and have come across this info!

There is a Burial Ground at the Hospital that was used by the Hospital when they needed to Bury people and it was close by!

It is called East Greenwich Pleasaunce and this is the new place that took all the old graves some 3000 of them,after the old Burial Ground was redeveloped!


Situated near a busy main road, the East Greenwich Pleasaunce - a formal, tree-lined garden - is a quiet haven that contains a burial ground for around 3,000 sailors who spent their last days at the local Royal Hospital Greenwich

Chevening Road
Greenwich
London SE10

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...app=newmap.srf

In 1926, the Admiralty sold the Royal Hospital Cemetery to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich (a predecessor of Greenwich Council) but reserved the rights for further burials. The last burial took place in 1981

So there is a good possibility that he may well be there!
Wouldnt that be great! Well you know what i mean!

Second Pic

East Greenwich Pleasaunce: south side
The high brick walls give away the origin of this secluded urban park as a burial ground.

Third Pic

Memorial to the Greenwich Royal Hospital Seaman
The memorial, and the mass grave to which it refers, are in the East Greenwich
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[alf corbyn]

i'm not positive vernon but believe those gates are on the old A2 cheers.alf

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Alf
On the Map that i attached a Link for it shows the A206 so not sure where exactly that would be mate!
I am too far away and too Bleedin old to remember all these places haha!
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