Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing, Class of 1913
Dorothy Webb, Class of 1913
Dorothy Webb was born on April 29, 1887 in St. Boniface, Manitoba. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) in November 1916.
Nursing sister Webb was first posted to Sewell Military Hospital (Camp Hughes) in Manitoba. She went to France in 1917 and was sent to No. 4 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, where she worked with Lieutenant-Colonel S.W. Prowse, a physician from Winnipeg, who was in charge of the CCS. She was also posted to No. 2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Touquet, before returning to Canada in 1919.
After the war, Dorothy accepted a position as Provincial School Nurse in Neepawa, Manitoba. She married William Cummings in June 1922 and they moved to Sioux Lookout, Ontario. She passed away in May 1963.
Edith Deason, Class of 1913
Edith Deason was born on November 28, 1880 in Lancashire, England. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and accepted a position as staff nurse on D flat at Winnipeg General Hospital.
In April 1915, she enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) and served in both England France and Egypt. Her first posting was at No. 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France and she then transferred to No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Lemnos Island and Alexandria before returning to England and being posted to Moore Barracks Hospital, Shorncliffe in 1917.
In 1918, she returned to France and was posted to No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital and No. 11 Canadian General Hospital before returning to Canada in 1919 and accepting a position at No. 10 Manitoba Military Hospital (Tuxedo Park) in Winnipeg.
In 1922, she resigned and moved to San Francisco where she was engaged in private duty nursing. Her career took her to Illinois in 1927 where she completed a course in anesthetics and later returned to Manitoba where she worked at the Brandon Mental Hospital. She passed away in Brandon on February 12, 1967.
Emily Abalinda Parker, Class of 1913
Emily Abalinda Parker was born on November 2, 1889 in Morden, Manitoba. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and was employed as a School Nurse by the Winnipeg School Division.
Parker joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in 1916. After serving with the QAIMNS for one year, she enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in October 1917 and was posted to No. 10 Canadian General Hospital, Brighton.
After the war, she resumed her position as a School Nurse for the Winnipeg School Division. In 1937, she was also on staff at the Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing. When the city school nursing service amalgamated with the Public Health Department, Parker accepted the position as District Supervisor of the Public Health Nursing Department in 1941 – a position she held until her retirement in 1959.
She passed away on September 22, 1970 in Winnipeg.
Jessie Cochrane, Class of 1913
Jessie Winnifred Cochrane was born on July 17, 1888 in Ranchvale, Manitoba and graduated from the Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing in 1913.
In May 1916, she left Winnipeg to investigate military nursing and in September 1916 enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC). From 1916-1918, nursing sister Cochrane served in both England and France and was initially posted to West Cliff Eye and Ear Canadian Hospital, Folkestone, before being transferred to Princess Patricia’s Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Ramsgate.
Nursing sister Cochrane sailed to France in 1917 and was posted to the No. 4 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in France where she worked with Lieutenant-Colonel S.W. Prowse, a physician from Winnipeg, who was in charge of the CCS. She resigned from service in 1918.
After the war, she married C.V. Coombe and they lived in Winnipeg. It is unclear if she nursed again. According to the Nurses’ Alumnae Journal, Jessie Cochrane died in 1961.
Lenna Mae Jenner, Class of 1913
Lenna Mae Jenner was born on November 17, 1889 in Brookfield, Queen’s County, Nova Scotia. She was the daughter of the Reverend John Jenner and Mary F. Jenner (nee MacIntyre).
She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) on June 25, 1918 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In April 1917, Lenna began working in a military hospital in Canada – likely the hospital in Kentville, Nova Scotia.
In July 1918, nursing sister Jenner was posted overseas and arrived in England. She was sent to a CAMC Training Depot and then assigned to the West Cliff Canadian Eye and Ear Hospital, Folkestone. In October 1918, she fell ill and was admitted to Clarence House, North Finchley, where she underwent an abdominal operation for “tubercular peritonitis.” She died of septicemia on December 12, 1918. Nursing sister Jenner is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Margaret Connolly, Class of 1913
Margaret Connolly was born on April 18, 1879 in County Antrim, Ireland. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913. Margaret was on staff at the King George Hospital in Winnipeg prior to enlisting in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) in May 1917.
During the war, nursing sister Connolly served in England and was posted at No. 16 Canadian General Hospital (also known as the Ontario Military Hospital, Orpington). She was discharged in 1919 and returned to work at King George Hospital in Winnipeg.
Margaret McGill, Class of 1913
Margaret Helen McGill was born on March 10, 1895 in Minnedosa, Manitoba. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and accepted a position as staff nurse at Winnipeg General Hospital.
In 1915, Margaret travelled overseas and enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) while in France. Nursing sister McGill served in France at No. 2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Touquet before being transferred in 1917 the No. 4 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station where she worked with Lieutenant-Colonel S.W. Prowse, a physician from Winnipeg, who was in charge of the CCS.
In March 1919, she returned to Canada and two years later was involved in private duty nursing in Santiago, California. In 1922, she relocated to Arizona where she was involved in public health nursing and that same year accepted a position on staff of the Public Health Department in Saskatchewan. Between 1925-1943, she was a Health Nurse at the Saskatchewan Normal School in Saskatoon before retiring to Vancouver in 1943.
She passed away in Vancouver on August 1, 1976.
Mary Jamieson, Class of 1913
Mary Jamieson was born on February 9, 1886 in Dumbarton, Scotland.
She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and in 1916 travelled to England and Scotland to investigate military nursing. While overseas she worked at a hospital in Glasgow for almost two years before enlisting with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) in March 1918. Nursing sister Jamieson was posted to No. 12 Canadian General Hospital Bramshott where she served until July 1919.
Upon returning from the war, she nursed in Victoria, British Columbia before accepting a position in 1922 at the Fort Qu’Appelle Sanatorium in Saskatchewan. She married T.W. Pepper and they eventually moved to Victoria, British Columbia in the 1940s. She died in Victoria on October 17, 1982.
Mary Scott, Class of 1913
Mary Elizabeth Scott was born on September 17, 1882 in Eden, Manitoba. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and accepted a position on staff at Winnipeg General Hospital.
Mary resigned in 1915 and joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS). She served overseas with the QAIMNS until 1918 when she returned to Canada and joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC). Nursing sister Scott served in Canada and was posted to the 22nd Calvary Field Ambulance Unit and Regina Military Hospital in Saskatchewan. She was discharged in 1919.
After the war, she married H. Williams and lived in Quebec and Ontario until her death on October 26, 1968.
Maude Andrews, Class of 1913
Maude Annie Andrews was born on January 5, 1887 in Swindon, England.
Maude graduated from the Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing in 1913. She moved to Saskatchewan and in 1916 enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) as part of the Saskatchewan Nurses Unit.
Nursing sister Andrews served in both England and France and was initially posted to Granville Canadian Stationary Hospital, Ramsgate before being transferred to Shorncliffe Hospital. From 1917-1919, she was posted at No. 8 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France and No 15 Canadian General Hospital (Duchess of Connaught’s Red Cross Hospital) before being discharged in August 1919.
After the war, Andrews moved to San Francisco where she engaged in private duty nursing. It is believed she lived there until her death in 1960.
Olive McMillan, Class of 1913
Olive Ethelwyn McMillan was born on June 22, 1891 in Minnedosa, Manitoba. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing 1913 and undertook post graduate work at the Neurologic Institute in New York in 1917.
Olive returned to Winnipeg in 1918 and joined the staff of the No. 10 Manitoba Military Hospital (Tuxedo Park) and enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) the same year.
In July 1918, nursing sister McMillan went overseas and served at the No. 15 Canadian General Hospital (Duchess of Connaught’s Red Cross Hospital) in England. After the war, she returned to her nursing position at No. 10 Manitoba Military Hospital (Tuxedo Park).
She married R.F. Butler and they relocated to California.
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