Nurses Role In World War 1

Nurses played an important role in World War I, helping heal those injured on the battlefield. Over 3000 canadians served as nurses in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the first world war including Laura Gamble, Ruby Peterkin, and Anne E. Ross.
One nurse who served with the Canadian military during the First World War is Laura Gamble. She was born in Wakefield, Quebec and worked for the Toronto General Hospital before she joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She served as a nurse in military hospitals in France, Greece and England and earned a citation and a medal that she was presented during a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace for her work. In one entry into her diary she talks about risking her life by going to the front. Laura Gamble was one of the brave nurses who served in the Canadian military during World War One.
She was born in 1887 in Toronto, later she trained as a nurse at the Toronto General Hospital, graduating in 1911. Peterkin enlisted with the No. 4 Canadian General Hospital on April 17, 1915, she went on to serve in Britain and Salonica, Greece. In a letter she wrote to her family, Peterkin describes the poor conditions in the hospital she worked at in Salonica, Greece saying "Food is very hard to get and prices appalling. I fear our mess fees will be very high. Laundry is ridiculous — fifty cents for a uniform and twenty cents each for aprons." During the First World War Ruby Peterkin was one of the courageous nurses who helped heal the sick and wounded with the Canadian