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Foggy days of fall Staff and students make their way past glowing lamps near the Student Union Building at UVic during Friday’s (Oct. 10) foggy fall morning. Don Denton/News staff
First World War nurses did their part By Steven Heywood Black Press
“Like anyone else, and like the men, they wanted to serve. Being nurses close to the battlefield was the only way they could do their bit.” Victoria historian Yvonne Van Ruskenveld explained the motivation of young women in 1914 in joining the war effort as Britain called upon nurses to serve near the front during the First World War. Van Ruskenveld, a member of the Old Cemeteries Society in Victoria, recently gave a presentation on the city’s battlefield nurses during the Great War to members of the
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Saanich Peninsula branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW). She’ll deliver the same presentation at Saanich Centennial Library on Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. The idea came from Van Ruskenveld’s annual October women’s history tour in the Ross Bay Cemetery. That’s where she came across the names of two Canadian Nursing Sisters, an organization that first appeared in 1885, according to Veterans Affairs Canada. The sisters cared for soldiers sent to quell the North-West Rebellion. From that time, the Nursing Sisters joined every Canadian military force up to the Korean War. These days, nurses in the Canadian Forces no longer go by the term. They were
known as the Nursing Sisters due in part to the religious background of wartime nursing, and the style of headgear they wore that resembled the habit of nuns. During the First World War, Van Ruskenveld said there were more than 3,000 Nursing Sisters, the only women in the Canadian armed forces at that time. One of those nurses from Victoria, Meta Hodge, won the Military Medal and is buried at Ross Bay. PLEASE SEE: Nursing sisters, Page A17
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