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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 1891
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Agnes Estelle Alpaugh -
Born 1880
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Bertha Blackburn Crompton -
Born 1875
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps 24 General Hospital Étaples France
British Army Nursing Sister Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Vincent Square Hospital
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps 16 Canadian General Hospital Orpington
More about Marie De Lacy -
Born 1889
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Mary Townley Burgess -
Born 1879
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Agnes Sutherland -
Born 1879
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Charlotte Phoebe Brown -
Born 1888
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Lulu Hastey Now Kidd -
Born 1882
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Pauline Douglas Balloch -
Born 1876
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps 1st Canadian General Hospital
More about Catherine Margaret Barbour -
Born 1890
Died 1984
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Eva Clare Matthews Later Bohlender Later Brunner -
Born 1890
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Marjorie Alida Mcwilliams -
Born 1890
British Army Staff Nurse Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Isabel Mary Lord -
Born 1889
Died 1930
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Margaret Emily Davies -
Born 1889
Died 1965
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Helen Lander Fowlds -
Born 1883
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Cecile Leonore Mckibben -
Born 1880
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Bessie (elizabeth) Louise Babbitt -
Born 1887
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Ada Lucy Bodkin -
Born 1893
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Joyce Thorley Brown -
Born 1893
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Leone Ellen Mosey -
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Marie Antoinette Sirois