Remembering The Sacrifices They Made
The aim of this exhibit was to not only illustrate the work of these hardworking nurses, but to highlight the lives of these nurses, as we remember our veterans who fought in the war, it is also important that the lives, the hard work and dedication to their post of these nurses is recognized as well. Nurses were exposed to many dangers while doing their job during the war. I would finally like to share the names of the nurses had lost their lives and be remembered for their extraordinary service during the First World War:
Mary Frances Munro (1915), Grace E Boyd Nourse (1916) Elsie Gertrude Ross (1916) Addie Allen (Adruenna) Tupper (1916), Sarah Ellen Garbutt (1917) Letitia Sparks (1917), Agnes Estelle Alpaugh (1918), Jean Ogilvie Alport (Roberts) (1918), Miriam Eastman Baker (1918), Dorothy Mary Yarwood Baldwin (1918), Bertha Bartlett (1918), Christina Campbell (1918), Ainslie St. Clair Dagg (1918), Lena A Davis (1918), Carola Josephine Douglas (1918), Alexina Dussault (1918), Minnie Asenath Follette (1918), Agnes Florien Forneri (1918), Margaret Jane Fortescue (1918), Christine Frederickson (1918), Minnie Katherine Gallaher (1918), Matilda Ethel Green (1918), Victoria Belle Hennan (1918), Myrtle Margaret Hunt (1918), Jessie Agnes Jarvis (1918), Lenna Mae Jenner (1918), Ida Lilian Kealy (1918), Margaret Lowe (1918), Jessie Mabel McDiarmid (1918), Katherine Maud MacDonald (1918), Rebecca Helen Maceachen (1918), Evelyn Verrall McKay (1918), Mary Agnes McKenzie (1918), Rena McLean (1918), Anges MacPherson (1918), Henrietta Mellett (1918), Eden Lyal Pringle (1918), Nellie Grace Rogers (1918), Ada Janet Ross (1918), Mary Belle Sampson (1918) Gladys Irene Sare (1918) Anna Irene Stamers (1918) Jean Templeman (1918), Alice L Trusdale (1918), Dorothy Pearson Twist (1918), Gladys Maud Mary Wake (1918), Anna Elizabeth Whitely (1918), Margaret Elisa Baker (1919), Ernestine Champagne (1919), (Petty) Gertrude Donaldson (1919), Grace Mabel Grant (1919), Jessie Nelson King (1919), Agnes McDougal (1919), Rebecca Mcintosh (1919), Margaret Christine MacLeod (1919), Mary Geraldine McGinnis (1920), Isobel Katherine Cumming (1921), Bessi Maud Hanna (1921), Caroline Graham Green (1922).
Canada, Veterans Affairs. “The Nursing Sisters of Canada.” Women and War - Remembering Those Who Served - Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada, 7 Sept. 2022, www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/those-who-served/women-veterans/nursing-sisters.