An historian in Fredericton, New Brunswick is looking for letters, diaries, and memoirs of Canadian nurses who served during the First World War. Reverend Ross Hebb, the author of Letters Home: Maritimers and the Great War, hopes to write a book about military nurses and is especially interested in nurses from New Brunswick.
Rev. Ross Hebb has posted almost 50 names of WWI military nurses from Saint John, NB on his Facebook page, Letters Home Ross Hebb, in an effort to learn more about them.
While it’s unknown how many women from New Brunswick served, Rev. Hebb told CBC his research has uncovered 149 who joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps.
They served in “all sorts of different capacities,” from Canadian hospitals in England and France, to hospital ships that transported the wounded.
Rev. Hebb said, “These women represented something new in the population in early 20th-century Canada.”
In an effort to find out more about the women, Rev. Hebb has posted nearly 50 names of WWI nurses from the Saint John area on his Facebook page, Letters Home Ross Hebb. He hopes people will recognize the names and contact him with additional information, such as letters, diaries, and other primary sources.
You can read more in this CBC report.
