Tag: nursing sisters
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Nursing Sister Evelyn Verrall McKay in the Great War
NS Evelyn Verrall McKay served with Lt-Col John McCrae in No. 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill), and like the author of In Flanders Fields, died under similar circumstances later in 1918. Evelyn born on 24 November 1892 in Galt, Ontario. The fifth of six daughters born to Mark Smith McKay and Sarah Marie Verrall. Enlistment…
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Matron Jessie Brown Jaggard in the Great War
Matron Jessie Brown Jaggard the second female casualty of the Canadian Army Medical Corps and CEF in the Great War. Jessie happened to be a cousin of Sir Robert Borden, Canada’s Prime Minister during wartime. “WHAT I ASPIRED TO BE AND WAS NOT COMFORTS ME” Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning Early Life of Jessie…
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Nursing Sister Gladys Maude Mary Wake in the Great War
Mount Wake named to remember Canadian Army Medical Corp Nursing Sister Gladys Maude Mary Wake, of Esquimalt, who died 21 May 1918 of wounds received 2 days earlier during the air raid on No.1 Canadian General Hospital at Etaples, France. Gladys Maude Mary Wake born 13 December 1883 at Esquimalt, graduated from Victoria’s Jubilee Hospital…
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Nursing Sister Nellie Josephine Enright RRC in the Great War
Nellie Josephine Enright the daughter of John Charles Enright and his wife, Alice (nee McCurley) Enright in Ottawa, Ontario. She had one sister, Mrs E J McCluen, of San Leandro, California. Her birth date noted as 14 September 1882. Nellie attended St. Patrick’s School from 1888-1897, then Sacred Heart Convent in Ottawa from 1897 to…
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Matron Edith Campbell MM in the Great War
Nursing Sister Edith Campbell R.R.C., M.M., M.I.D. Matron Edith Campbell awarded the Military Medal for actions during an air raid. Also twice Mentioned in Despatches (June 1915 and December 1917). Edith Campbell of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, one of only eight Canadian Nursing Sisters awarded the Military Medal in the Great War. Edith’s nephew James Campbell Clouston…
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No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in the Great War
No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in the Great War describes the origins of the unit beginning in August 1914 with Herbert Stanley Birkett, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, until May 1916. The Call to Arms (4 August 1914 – 5 May 1915) Origins of No.3 Canadian General Hospital When war declared…
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Nursing Sister Henrietta Mellett in the Great War
Nursing Sister Henrietta Mellett, died 10 October 1918 in the sinking of RMS Leinster. The ship torpedoed in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, in the morning, while travelling from Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales. Three torpedoes fired at the ship by German submarine, UB-123, commanded by Kapitänleutnant…
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Matron Margaret Clothilde MacDonald RRC in the Great War
Matron Margaret Clothilde MacDonald appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service, becoming the first woman in the British Empire to obtain the rank of major during a nursing career of over thirty years. Early Life Margaret Clothilde MacDonald born 26 February 1879 in Bailey’s Brook, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The third daughter of Donald…
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Nursing Sister Margaret Helen McGill in the Great War
Margaret Helen McGill born on 10 March 1895 in Minnedosa, Manitoba. Diptheria – mild attack in October 1910 with a good recovery. Operation for acute mastoiditis (right ear) in 1913, also with a good recovery. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and later accepted a position as staff nurse at Winnipeg…
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Nursing Sister Anna Elizabeth Whitely in the Great War
One of the eldest Nursing Sisters of the Great War, Anna Elizabeth Whitely born 22 January 1872 in Manvers County, Ontario. Noted, her next of kin Mrs. R.A. Anderson (sister), 349 Piccadilly St., London, Ontario and sister of Harry J. Henning, of Peterborough, Ontario. Earlier, Anna had received her nursing training in Cleveland, Ohio, and…