Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5917762

Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 3217 - 3

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/393777

Credit: © Libraries and Archives Canada

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ID: 6976601

Title: Portrait photograph of MJ Fortescue

Description: Margaret Jane Fortescue, Canadian Army Medical Corps. Drowned when the Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle was torpedoed 27 June 1918.

Connected by: Charlotte33

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ID: 7739870

Title: HMHS Llandovery Castle

Description: The Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle, bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Liverpool, was torpedoed on June 27th, 1918, 114 miles south-west of the Fastnet Rock by U-86. Despite regulation Red Cross lights, the ship was deliberately torpedoed and most survivors, including 14 Nursing Sisters were machine gunned. The Llandovery Castle became the rallying cry for the Canadian troops during the Last 100 Days offensive. Only 24 people in one remaining lifeboat survived.

Connected by: Peter34996

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ID: 7946505

Title: Margaret Jane Fortescue

Description: In Canadian nurses uniform. She graduated from Montreal General Hospital in 1905 and later enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, leaving Canada on 6 May 1915.

Connected by: Robert35277

Additional: Website relating to Canadian nurses in WW1

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ID: 7946533

Name: UK De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1924

Title: UK census data 1861- 1891

Description: Family history searches for Dawlish WW1 project

Connected by: Robert35277

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1881&h=3131431
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Additional: The family data in census records corresponds with other information in the Reference given, and in Ancestry family trees

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ID: 8673164

Title: Detail from "Women of the Empire" Memorial

Description: Detail image of part of the "Women of the Empire" memorial panels in York Minster.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Photograph © Michael Newbury, May 2016. Photo used on Lives of the First World War by kind permission of Michael Newbury, and may only be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, attributing his copyright.

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ID: 8673168

Title: "Women of the Empire" Memorial in York Minster

Description: Overview image of the "Women of the Empire" memorial panels in York Minster.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Photograph © Michael Newbury, May 2016. Photo used on Lives of the First World War by kind permission of Michael Newbury, and may only be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, attributing his copyright.

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ID: 9260997

Title: Nurses memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum

Description: A Memorial to Voluntary Aid Detachment and Professional Nurses who lost their lives in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, dedicated and unveiled on 4th June 2018 at an event attended by HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO, Royal Patron of the Nursing Memorial Appeal. The memorial takes the form of hands cast in bronze holding a globe carrying the names of nurses who lost their lives in service in the two World Wars. Further information about the memorial can be found on the Nursing Memorial Appeal website at www.nursingmemorialappeal.org.uk

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image © 2018 Nursing Memorial Appeal, kindly made available for use on Lives of the First World War.

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ID: 9286463

Name: UK Express, June 29, 2018.

Title: Heroic nurse killed in WW1 is remembered on 100th anniversary of her death

Description: Margaret 'Daisy' Fortescue, a member of the Canadian Army Medical Corp, who died during WW1 when the Canadian hospital ship The HMHS Llandovery Castle was sunk, was finally recognized for her bravery by having her name put on the war memorial on the 100th anniversary of her death on June 27th, 2018 at a special service at St. Gregory's in Dawlish, Devon.

Connected by: CM136251

URL: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/981563/Nurse-Margaret-Fortescue-World-War-1-anniversary-death
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ID: 9401409

Name: Libraries and Archives Canada

Title: Personnel File

Description: Digitalised service file

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B3217-S003
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Additional: First two pages match attestation.

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ID: 9401464

Name: Halifax Memorial

Title: CWGC

Description: Nursing Sister FORTESCUE, M J Died 27/06/1918 Canadian Army Medical Corps

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4021528/fortescue,-/
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Additional: Matches name, date of death and details of service.

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ID: 9401471

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/1047227

Additional: Matches initials, surname, date of death, details of service and the Halifax Memorial.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9401486

Name: Dawlish World War One Project

Title: Nursing sister, Canadian Army Medical Corps Margaret Jane Fortescue

Description: Extensive biographical information with photograph and also quoting from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914- 1924

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://dawlishww1.org.uk/soldiers/nursing-sister-canadian-army-medical-corps-margaret-jane-fortescue/
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Additional: Matches full name and details of service - the project has already been linked in evidence with a link to Ancestry.co.uk

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ID: 9401505

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1891/0012073779

Additional: Matches familiar name Daisy, surname Fortescue and year and place of birth.

Credit: © General Register Office