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Alexandra H.J. Connon

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Alexandra H.J. Connon

Birth
Death
6 Mar 1950 (aged 72–73)
Burial
Barnet, London Borough of Barnet, Greater London, England Add to Map
Plot
Section A, just South (left) of the entrance gate.
Memorial ID
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In
loving memory of
my dear sister
Alexandra H.J. Connon
A.R.R.C.
called to rest March 6th. 1950
aged 73 years.
"God's finger touched her and she slept."

A.R.R.C. = Associate Royal Red Cross.This award was established in 1883 by Queen Victoria, for exceptional services to military nursing.

The epitaph is taken from Canto LXXXV of Tennyson's "In Memoriam":

My blood an even tenor kept,
Till on mine ear this message falls,
That in Vienna's fatal walls
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
In
loving memory of
my dear sister
Alexandra H.J. Connon
A.R.R.C.
called to rest March 6th. 1950
aged 73 years.
"God's finger touched her and she slept."

A.R.R.C. = Associate Royal Red Cross.This award was established in 1883 by Queen Victoria, for exceptional services to military nursing.

The epitaph is taken from Canto LXXXV of Tennyson's "In Memoriam":

My blood an even tenor kept,
Till on mine ear this message falls,
That in Vienna's fatal walls
God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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