🗓️ 22 May 1927. A stained glass window dedicated to the Royal Army Medical Corps was unveiled in Westminster Abbey.
Designed by Sir Ninian Comper, one of the finest church architects and stained glass artists of his generation, the two-light window stands in the north aisle of the nave. It depicts St Edward the Confessor and Edwin, Abbot of Westminster, and forms part of a series of windows Comper designed for the Abbey showing kings and abbots across the centuries.
The window was created to honour the 6,873 men of all ranks who gave their lives serving with the RAMC in the Great War. Their names were inscribed in a Golden Book, placed in the Chapter House of the Abbey. The inscription at the base of the window reads: “In memory of the Royal Army Medical Corps of all ranks who gave their lives in the service of their country.”
Below the inscription were named the theatres in which they served: France, Flanders, the Dardanelles, Italy, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Africa, Persia, India and Russia. Twelve theatres. One Corps. Every front, in every campaign.
The window still stands in Westminster Abbey today, visited by thousands each year, most of whom will never know the story it holds.
98 years ago today, the RAMC took its rightful place among the nation’s most honoured.
