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About Me
- Debbie Marshall
- I am an Alberta writer and editor with a special interest in women and the First World War. My work has appeared in anthologies such as Dropped Threads II and in magazines such as The Beaver, United Church Observer, Legacy, Alberta Views, Exchange, Mandate, Compass, Our Canada, as well as other publications. My most recent book was Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey Into the Great War (University of Calgary Press: 2007). I can be reached through comments on my blog posts or via email at parsenippress@interbaun.com.
Cecile McKibben in the CAMC nurse uniform
Nursing Sister Dress Uniform
This uniform belonged to NS Cecile McKibben.
Mary Frances Munro
Nursing Sister Mary Munro
Dorothy Mary Yarwood Baldwin
Dorothy Baldwin died in May 1918 during the bombing of her hospital in Doullens, France.
Nurse Katherine McDonald
courtesy Nelson Mercier
Margaret Jane Fortescue
Margaret Jane Fortescue
NS Carola Douglas
NS Carola Douglas
Gladys Wake
Etaples Cemetery
Visiting the Graves of Canadian Nursing Sisters
Books and Resources
- That Damn Y: A Record of Overseas Service, by Katharine Mayo, (1920). A description of one woman's experience with the American Expeditionary Force and the YMCA.
- The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front by Eileen Crofton, East Lothian: Tuckwell Press Ltd., 1997.
- Margaret Macdonald: Imperial Daughter by Susan Mann, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
- The Virago Book of Women and the Gereat War, Edited by Joyce Marlow, London: Virago Press, 1999.
- Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey Into the Great War by Debbie Marshall, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007
- Elsie and Mairie Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front by Diane Atkinson, London: Random House, 2009. (This is available in both hardcover and paperback.)
- Sister Heroines: The Roseate Glow of Wartime Nursing 1914-1918 by Marjorie Barron Norris, Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2002.
- The War Diary of Clare Gass, Edited by Susan Mann, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000
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