Nursing Sisters Who Lost Their Lives in the First and Second World Wars

Nursing Sisters—First World War

• 1915
  • Matron JAGGARD, Jessie Brown, 3 Stationary Hospital
  • N/S MUNRO, Mary Frances E., 3 Stationary Hospital
• 1916
  • N/S NOURSE, Grace E. Boyd, Canadian Army Military Corps (CAMC)
  • N/S ROSS, Elsie Gertrude, CAMC
  • N/S TUPPER, Addie Allen (Adruenna), Royal Red Cross (RRC) CAMC
• 1917
  • N/S GARBUTT, Sarah Ellen, Ontario Military Hospital
  • N/S SPARKS, Letitia, 7 General Hospital
• 1918
  • N/S ALPAUGH, Agnes Estelle, CAMC
  • N/S ALPORT (Roberts), Jean Ogilvie, 4 General Hospital
  • N/S BAKER, Miriam Eastman, 15 General Hospital
  • N/S BALDWIN, Dorothy Mary Yarwood, 3 Stationary Hospital
  • N/S BARTLETT, Bertha, Newfoundland Voluntary Aid Detachment
  • N/S CAMPBELL, Christina, 5 General Hospital
  • N/S DAGG, Ainslie St. Clair, 15 General Hospital
  • N/S DAVIS, Lena A., 4 General Hospital
  • N/S DOUGLAS, Carola Josephine, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S DUSSAULT, Alexina, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S FOLLETTE, Minnie Asenath, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S FORNERI, Agnes Florien, 8 General Hospital
  • N/S FORTESCUE, Margaret Jane, CAMC H.S.
  • Matron FRASER, Margaret Marjory, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S FREDERICKSON, Christine, CAMC
  • N/S GALLAHER, Minnie Katherine, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S GREEN, Matilda Ethel, 7 General Hospital
  • N/S HENNAN, Victoria Belle, 9 General Hospital
  • N/S HUNT, Myrtle Margaret, CAMC
  • N/S JARVIS, Jessie Agnes, CAMC
  • N/S JENNER, Lenna Mae, CAMC
  • N/S KEALY, Ida Lilian, 1 General Hospital
  • N/S LOWE, Margaret, 1 General Hospital
  • N/S MCDIARMID, Jessie Mabel, 5 General Hospital
  • N/S MACDONALD, Katherine Maud, 1 General Hospital
  • N/S MACEACHEN, Rebecca Helen, CAMC
  • N/S MCKAY, Evelyn Verrall, 3 General Hospital
  • N/S MCKENZIE, Mary Agnes, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S MCLEAN, Rena, RRC 2 Stationary Hospital
  • N/S MACPHERSON, Agnes, RRC 3 Stationary Hospital
  • N/S MELLETT, Henrietta, 15 General Hospital
  • N/S PRINGLE, Eden Lyal, 3 Stationary Hospital
  • N/S ROGERS, Nellie Grace, CAMC
  • N/S ROSS, Ada Janet, 1 General Hospital
  • N/S SAMPSON, Mary Belle, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S SARE, Gladys Irene, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S STAMERS, Anna Irene, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S TEMPLEMAN, Jean, CAMC H.S.
  • N/S TRUSDALE, Alice L., CAMC
  • N/S TWIST, Dorothy Pearson, Canadian Military V.A.D.
  • N/S WAKE, Gladys Maude Mary, 1 General Hospital
  • N/S WHITELY, Anna Elizabeth, 10 Stationary Hospital
• 1919
  • N/S BAKER, Margaret Elisa, CAMC
  • N/S CHAMPAGNE, Ernestine, 8 General Hospital
  • N/S DONALDSON (Petty), Gertrude, 1 General Hospital
  • N/S GRANT, Grace Mabel, CAMC
  • N/S KING, Jessie Nelson, 1 General Hospital
  • N/S MCDOUGAL, Agnes, 10 Stationary Hospital
  • N/S MCINTOSH, Rebecca, 9 General Hospital
  • N/S MACLEOD, Margaret Christine, 2 General Hospital
• 1920
  • N/S McGINNIS, Mary Geraldine, CAMC
• 1921
  • N/S CUMMING, Isobel Katherine, 1 General Hospital
  • N/S HANNA, Bessie Maud, 3 Stationary Hospital
• 1922
  • N/S GREEN, Caroline Graham, CAMC H.S.

Nursing Sisters—Second World War

• 1940
  • Lt. (N/S) BELL, Marion Elizabeth, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC)
• 1941
  • FO (N/S) MACLEOD, Jessie Margaret, Royal Canadian Air Force
  • Lt. (N/S) SPAFFORD, Frances Winnifred, RCAMC
• 1942
  • Sub-Lt WILKIE, Agnes Wightman, RCN
• 1943
  • Lt. (N/S) ASHLEY, Ruth, Louise, RCAMC
  • Lt. (N/S) POLGREEN, Francis Eunice, RCAMC
  • FO (N/S) WESTGATE, Marion Mercedes, RCAF
• 1944
  • Lt. (N/S) (Occupational Therapist) MCLAREN, Mary Susannah, RCAMC
  • Lt. (N/S) PARKINSON (nee Stirling) Margaret McCullough, South African Military Nursing Sisters (SAMNS)
  • Lt. (N/S) PETERS, Nora Hendry, RCAMC
• 1945
  • Lt. (N/S) BRIGGS, Margaret Agnes, RCAMC
  • Lt. (N/S) COOPER, Frances Ellen, RCAMC
  • Lt. (N/S) FITZGERALD, Gladys Helen, RCAMC
  • Lt. (N/S) MACDONALD, Vera Catherine, RCAMC
• 1946
  • Lt. (N/S) DUSSIO, Marie Cecile, RCAMC
  • Lt. (N/S) GANNON, Frances Eileen, RCAMC
• 1947
  • Matron ENRIGHT, Nellie, Josephine, RCAF

Legend

• N/S – Nursing Sister
• Lt. – Lieutenant
• H.S. – Hospital Services Group

Reference: http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/women-and-war/nursing-sisters

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