NURSES OF WORLD WAR I

   ww1 - Nurses in The Memorial Listings that have ww1 after their name lost their lives serving in World War I. No further information is available regarding their individual backgrounds.
   

AUSTRALIA: [Ent: 10/99] (Source: http://www.rcna.org.au/ )

  About 2500 nurses served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in World War I. 25 of these nurses lost their lives.

CANADA: [Ent: 10/99] (Source:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/Nursing/sisterhist2)

  46 of the  3,000 women who served as "nursing sisters" in the Canadian Army Medical Corps lost their lives during the war. Of info available,  six were killed or mortally wounded (of which three died in the deliberate bombing of the military hospital in Étaples, France); 15 died at sea, with the sinking of the hospital ship, Llandovery Castle; 15 died of disease; and seven died later in Canada

   USA: [Ent. 10/99] (Source: They Gave Their Lives: http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/lives.html)

   Ayers, Edith from Attica, Ohio/USA.

  Woods, Helen Burnet from Evanston, Illinois/USA

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