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The U-boat menace

ID number: P11193.005
Photographer: unknown
Place: New South Wales

In the early morning of 26 February 1918 the hospital ship Glenart Castle was torpedoed by the German U-boat UC-56. Among those killed was Edith Blake, an Australian sister serving with the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Service. Her family placed a small memorial notice in the Sydney Morning Herald on the first anniversary of her death:

For her there were no flowers
To adorn the unmarked surface of the water;
The ocean alone decks her grave with gifts of pearls and shell,
And wreathes her brow with seaweeds rare.

Sister Blake's next of kin were sent a memorial plaque in 1923 as “a solace for bereavement and as a memento”. Sixty thousand of these plaques were issued in Australia‚ only 25 to the families of Australian nurses. They bore the unique inscription, “She died for freedom and honour”.

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This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection www.awm.gov.au
Persistent URL: www.awm.gov.au/collection/HP11193.005

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Taken on: January 1, 2016

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