Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 5940177

Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 3517 - 16

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/416185

Credit: © Libraries and Archives Canada

Source information

ID: 8561837

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: GBM/MCI/4959343

Additional: The name is mistranscribed and should read Gertrude Effie Bunnell Gilbert

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 8561840

Title: Gertrude Gilbert and other nurses at La Faisandrie

Description: "At home, La Faisandrie", Joinville-le-Pont, France. Nursing sisters Elizabeth Ponting, Florence Brown, Gertrude Gilbert, Charlotte McNaughton, Alice Isaacson, Gertrude Kier, Lucy Tracy, Jessie Tracy, from Alice Isaacson's album, Library and Archives Canada

Connected by: Kristen1288

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ID: 8561876

Title: Gertrude Kier, Gertrude Gilbert, Margaret Thirsk

Description: Nursing sisters Gertrude Kier, Gertrude Gilbert and Margaret Thirsk of No. 6 Canadian General Hospital boating on the Marne River, Joinville-le-Pont, France, from Alice Isaacson's album, Library and Archives Canada.

Connected by: Kristen1288

Source information

ID: 9005390

Name: Gertrude Effie Bunnell Gilbert

Title: Collections Canada - Full service record

Description: Full service record.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B3517-S016
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Additional: Matches attestation.

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ID: 9125999

Name: see URL

Title: On line version on catalogue reference at Canadian War Museum

Description: Biography and details of Gertrude's diary

Connected by: Janet2378

URL: http://catalogue.warmuseum.ca/musvw/FullBB.csp?WebAction=ShowFullBB&EncodedRequest=*EB*95*9C*D6a*3C*80*1D*E6VQ*1F*7F*1A*1F*3B&Profile=Profile28&OpacLanguage=eng&NumberToRetrieve=50&StartValue=1&WebPageNr=1&SearchTerm1=GILBERT%20GERTRUDE%20EFFIE%20BUNNELLNURSING%20SISTER%20.1.251833&SearchT1=&Index1=1*Keywordsbib&SearchMethod=Find_2&ItemNr=1
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Additional: Sourced from a reference in "Sister Soldiers of the Great War etc." by Cynthia Tomen

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ID: 9335945

Name: see URL

Title: Facebook link to photo and story about NS Gilbert

Description: Short biography about Gertrude.

Connected by: Lizbet72994

URL: https://www.facebook.com/westernfrontassociation/photos/rpp.113571166901/10156021041366902/?type=3&theater
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