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Bluebirds: Canadian Nurses of WW1
Bluebirds: Canadian Nurses of WW1
This community was inspired by the Library and Archives Canada exhibit, "The Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters," which explores the lives of six women who served as nursing sisters during the First World War. The community is not limited to these six, however, and I am adding more women to the group as I find them. Canadian nurses were nicknamed bluebirds because of their blue dresses, accented by white aprons and sheer veils. When I've found them, however, I've also included Canadian nurses who for whatever reason served with other forces, and therefore wore a different uniform.
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Born 1895
Died 1979
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Frances Beryl Innes -
Born 1875
Died 1956
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps, No 5 General Hospital
More about Edith Effie Lumsden -
Born 1895
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Marion Parker Schaffner -
Born 1893
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Ethel Bayliss -
Born 1890
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Wilhelmina Smith -
Born 1887
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Anne Dorothea Acheson -
Born 1890
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Seaborn Robertson -
Born 1889
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Jean Elisabeth Ramsay -
Born 1897
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Agnes Helen Adam -
Born 1888
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
Other Empire Force Nursing Sister American Ambulance Hospital
More about Jean Louise Ballantyne -
Born 1885
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Beatrice Davison -
Born 1889
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Katherine Crichton -
Born 1884
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Lillian May Armstrong -
Born 1889
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Edith Hunter -
Born 1881
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Beatrice Casgrain -
British Army Nurse Voluntary Aid Detachment
More about Ianthe Willard Constantinides -
Born 1886
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps Canadian Stationary Hospital
More about Ida Denmark -
Born 1893
Died 1980
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Leila Robson Batty -
Born 1889
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Constance Mary Stuart -
Born 1891
Died 1972
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Emma Charlotte Mcleod