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| In the Second World War, the Women's Voluntary Service for Harrogate was organised by Veale.<ref name="Veale obituary in BMJ" /> According to historian [[Malcolm Neesam]], Veale was, "someone who tackled everything with vast amounts of enthusiasm. During the war, [she] led the campaign in Harrogate to collect [[scrap]] metal to use in the war effort. She would ride through town in a car pulled by local [[Scout (Scouting)|Scout]]s, shouting out at the top of her voice".<ref name="Chalmers 2017" /> | In the Second World War, the Women's Voluntary Service for Harrogate was organised by Veale.<ref name="Veale obituary in BMJ" /> According to historian [[Malcolm Neesam]], Veale was, "someone who tackled everything with vast amounts of enthusiasm. During the war, [she] led the campaign in Harrogate to collect [[scrap]] metal to use in the war effort. She would ride through town in a car pulled by local [[Scout (Scouting)|Scout]]s, shouting out at the top of her voice".<ref name="Chalmers 2017" /> |
| ==Commemoration and assessment== | |
| ==Subsequent events== | |
| In January 2023, Malcolm Neesam, Harrogate Civic Society and Harrogate Medical Society affixed a [[Commemorative plaque|brown plaque]] in celebration of Veale on the building wherein she established her [[Doctor's office|surgery]], at 3 Victoria Avenue.<ref name="Chalmers 2017" /> In the same month, a blue plaque in commemoration of Veale was placed on the house in Hampsthwaite where she was born, and unveiled by the chair of Hampsthwaite and District NHS Foundation Trust.<ref name="Harrogate Advertiser 31 January 2023" /> "Veale's achievements were ... acknowledged by [[North Yorkshire Council|North Yorkshire County Council]]'s Sons and Daughters Campaign which saw the clinician make the top ten in their public vote". She "took the number one spot as one of North Yorkshire's most influential figures in medicine".<ref name="Harrogate Advertiser 31 January 2023" /> The ''[[British Medical Journal]]'' described her as "a very remarkable woman who during the past half-century had a considerable influence on life in Harrogate and beyond that in her native Yorkshire".<ref name="Veale obituary in BMJ" /> | In January 2023, Malcolm Neesam, Harrogate Civic Society and Harrogate Medical Society affixed a [[Commemorative plaque|brown plaque]] in celebration of Veale on the building wherein she established her [[Doctor's office|surgery]], at 3 Victoria Avenue.<ref name="Chalmers 2017" /> In the same month, a blue plaque in commemoration of Veale was placed on the house in Hampsthwaite where she was born, and unveiled by the chair of Hampsthwaite and District NHS Foundation Trust.<ref name="Harrogate Advertiser 31 January 2023" /> "Veale's achievements were ... acknowledged by [[North Yorkshire Council|North Yorkshire County Council]]'s Sons and Daughters Campaign which saw the clinician make the top ten in their public vote". She "took the number one spot as one of North Yorkshire's most influential figures in medicine".<ref name="Harrogate Advertiser 31 January 2023" /> The ''[[British Medical Journal]]'' described her as "a very remarkable woman who during the past half-century had a considerable influence on life in Harrogate and beyond that in her native Yorkshire".<ref name="Veale obituary in BMJ" /> |
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