Educator, Hero Nurse. Her name is spelled sometimes as Dickenson or Dickinson. Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, she was an educator and nurse. She is best remembered for her tireless work during the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918. For her efforts in helping the sick, she was named one of the "Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador." Educated at the Methodist College in St. John's, and the MacDonald Institute in Guelph, Ontario, she decided to volunteer as a nurse during World War I. In 1915, she traveled to London, England, and volunteered at the Wandsworth Hospital and then at the Ascot Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. She became sick soon after and had to return home. In 1918, after returning to St. John's, the Spanish flu epidemic had spread throughout the city and emergency service tents had to be set up including in the King George the Fifth Institute Building where she was stationed. Unfortunately, while treating the sick and dying patients, she became sick with the Spanish flu herself. Although, having been exposed to the virus she continued to help people tirelessly for hours putting their needs before her own. She eventually had to take to a bed. On October 26, 1918, she passed away at the age of 38. She was buried in the Church of England Cemetery (now Anglican Cemetery) in St. John's where some other Spanish influenza victims are also buried. On October 26, 1920, two years after her death, a monument in memory of Ethel Gertrude Dickenson was dedicated in Cavendish Square in St. John's. The monument sculpted from grey Aberdeen granite and containing an octagonal shaft with a Celtic Cross at its pinnacle was unveiled Sir Charles Alexander Harris, the British Colonial Administrator and Governor of Newfoundland. The monument reads on one side, "This shaft, surmounted by the world emblem of sacrifice, is set up by a grateful public in memory of Ethel Dickenson volunteer nurse who in the great epidemic of 1918 gave her life while tending patients at the King George the Fifth Institute, St. John's. In honor also of those who nursed with her in the imminent shadow of death." The other side reads "Be Thou Faithful Unto Death and I Will Give Thee A Crown of Life."