Nursing Sister Elizabeth Pierce

Survivor of WW1

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Conflict Rank Regiment Branch Unit Company Date From Date To
WW1 Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps Army Canadian Army Medical Corps
WW1 Nursing Sister Royal Canadian Navy Navy H.M.C.S. Prince George (HS)

Notes

The HMCHS Prince George was a 307 foot steel vessel drafted into the Royal Canadian Navy on August 8, 1914. At some point it was decided that Canada was not going to have a hospital ship and it was paid off on September 4, 1914 and returned to its owners. Elizabeth Pierce, Anne Dover, Gertrude Black, Penelope Mellen, Mabel Lindsay, and Bessie Watson spent a short period of time in the navy before resuming their nursing career in the army.
Nursing sister Elizabeth Pierce, born in Bruce County, Ontario in 1882, left for overseas duty in January 1915, and stayed in the RCAMC (Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps) until August 1920. She graduated from the Victoria Royal Jubilee Hospital nursing program in 1908.

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