Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5668292

Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 6562 - 23

Title: Canadian Attestation Papers

Description: At the time of their enrollment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Officer’s completed a Declaration Paper, volunteers a two sided Attestation Paper and conscripts a single sided Enlistment form. They each contain brief details about the individual. Images supplied by Libraries and Archives Canada. This source was connected by Imperial War Museums.

UPP: GBM/CAN-ATT/144424

Credit: © Libraries and Archives Canada

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ID: 7728926

Title: Roberta McADAMS

Description: In uniform

Connected by: Peter34996

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ID: 8560902

Name: Finding the Forty-seven

Title: Remembering First World War Nurses blog

Description: A blog about Canadian nurses who died while serving in WW1.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: http://rememberingfirstworldwarnurses.blogspot.ca/
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ID: 8560903

Title: Wikipedia - Roberta MacAdams

Description: Wikipedia article on Roberta MacAdams.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_MacAdams
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ID: 8560907

Name: Roberta MacAdams

Title: Canadian Great War Project

Description: Nursing and biographical details about Roberta MacAdams

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URL: http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=86598
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ID: 8560912

Name: Robert MacAdams Price

Title: The Canadian Encyclopedia

Description: The life and career of Robert MacAdams Price.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/roberta-macadams-price/
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ID: 8580216

Name: see URL

Title: "Give your Other Vote to the Sister" by Debbie Marshall

Description: The Google book link to this book with an opportunity to access brief excerpts.

Connected by: Lizbet72994

URL: https://books.google.ca/books?id=MJRC9fWpul0C&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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Additional: It also chronicles Debbie Marshall's own journey to reclaim MacAdams' life, one that took her across Canada and to the places where MacAdams lived and worked in England and France. It was a search that would change her own perceptions about how and why so may women willingly participated in the world's first "great war." quote from book review

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ID: 8767899

Name: Gertrude E.M Vaughan The World's Work Magazine (July 1916)

Title: The Ontario Model Hospital at Orpington

Description: On line copy provided Scarlet Finders. The article is also available in photocopy form at Bromley Central Library Local Studies Department reference Gertrude E.M Vaughan The Ontario Model Hospital at Orpington 362.1109421178 3 LVE

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URL: http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/162.html
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Additional: " The Dietician’s duties include the oversight of the preparation of all the food from a scientific point of view, and the lady who holds this important post at Orpington is a University woman, Miss McAdams".

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ID: 8768984

Name: Re: Orpington WW1 Military Hospital Reply #2 on: June 03, 2016, 14:57:0

Title: Topic: Orpington WWI Military Hospital

Description: On line page from Kent History Forum regarding Orpington World War i Military Hospital. The third photograph - about half way down - shows Sister Roberta Catherine MacAdams with Matron M.H Smith and one other.

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URL: http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15941.msg169940#msg169940
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Additional: On the left hand side of the photograph the appearance of the nurse matches the profile picture of Sister Roberta Catherine MacAdams on livesofthefirstworld.org.

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ID: 8770119

Name: Pateman J (2013) ISBN-10: 1304067319 ISBN-13: 978-1304067319

Reference: Own copy of book.

Title: Ontario to Orpington

Description: Roberta Macadams is mentioned on pages 9-10 " One day she had a patient who refused to eat anything but tomato soup....... So Roberta went from bed to bed persuading the other soldiers that they also had a desire for tomato soup; the diet cards were adjusted and the soldier got his wish."

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Additional: Sister Roberta MacAdams at the Ontario Military Hospital, Orpington.

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ID: 8868935

Title: Archives of Ontario, I0052163

Description: On the left Nursing Sister Catherine MacAdams, in the middle Matron M.H Smith and on the right it could be Nursing Sister Brenda Florence Mattice who was 5' 1 inch in height according to the Medical for her enlistment dated September 24th 1914

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Additional: Thought to be linked to article by Gertrude E.M Vaughan The World's Work Magazine (July 1916)

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ID: 9289941

Name: see URL

Title: PDF of service records for C.E.F

Description: digitised service records

Connected by: Janet2378

URL: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B6562-S023
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ID: 9290007

Name: see URL

Title: Dear Sadie Collection: L Bruce Robertson , Ontario Military Hospital

Description: L Bruce Robertson is featured in a permanent exhibit at the Government of Ontario Archives . The link provides information about his time at the Ontario Hospital where Roberta served

Connected by: Janet2378

URL: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/Robertson/Ontario_Military_Hospital.aspx
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ID: 9290010

Title: Stretcher being loaded onto an Ambulance train

Description: Stretcher being loaded onto Ambulance Train from C.C.S., [ca. 1914-1918] L. Bruce Robertson fonds, F 1374, Archives of Ontario, I0050274

Connected by: Janet2378

Additional: While not specific to Roberta she would have been waiting to receive patients and prepared them for unloading

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ID: 9290013

Title: Christmas c.1918 possibly Orpington

Description: " Interior of a military hospital showing patients, visitors and nurses during Christmas time, [ca. 1918] Canadian Expeditionary Force photograph albums, C 224-8, Archives of Ontario, I0004870"

Connected by: Janet2378

Additional: shared with thanks

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ID: 9366455

Title: MLAs in Uniform

Description: This photo shows members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta serving in the armed forces during WW1. Nursing Sister Roberta MacAdams is in the front row, centre.

Connected by: Jessica140222

Additional: Wikimedia Commons public domain photo; Glenbow Archives.