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Life and Death on a Hospital Ship
The Risks and the Rules
From: Asleep in the Deep
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In late March 1918, Anna Samers was transferred to the hospital ship Llandovery Castle which traveled between England and Halifax. This last assignment brought her to the attention of the world. Under international law, hospital ships are to be given safe passage, yet by 1918 German submarines would attempt to sink every ship in a declared war zone around Britain, so a torpedo struck the ship Anna was on. Anna and all her nursing colleagues were among the dead. The sinking quickly became part of the Allies’ propoganda war against Germany as well as the case leading to the principles in the Law of Armed Conflict still taught today.
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Dianne Kelly
Dianne Kelly holds degrees in business and history from the University of New Brunswick. She lives near Fredericton.
