Author(s)

Publisher

Publication Year

ISBN: 9781773101767-03

Categories: , , , , ,

 
View more details about this title
on the publisher's website:

Signing up to Serve

From: Asleep in the Deep

$1.80

This chapter describes the distinctive Canadian Nursing Sister uniform and the procedures undergone to recruit and select nurses for the Canadian Army Medical Corp once war was declared. Qualities required were coolness, courage, and skill to serve where many wounded and dying were constantly being brought into the field hospital. Nurses were eager to serve and worried that the war would be over before they had their chance. Anna arrives in England in 1915.

Preview

Contributors

Dianne Kelly

Dianne Kelly holds degrees in business and history from the University of New Brunswick. She lives near Fredericton.