Honouring unsung heroines
During MUNSON's 50th Anniversary weekend, also the 100th anniversary of Beaumont Hamel, The Newfoundland Regiment Museum held a reception for Dr. Sandra MacDonald and descendants of 11 Newfoundland nurses who served in the First World War.
Over the past year MUNSON faculty member Dr. Sandra MacDonald along with help from Dr. April Manuel and new BN graduate Jennifer Guy (at the time a fourth-year nursing student) uncovered the lost stories of the Newfoundland graduate nurses who had served overseas near the battlefields of Europe, along with Greece and the Middle East.
Read the full story and learn about these incredible nurses who all graduated from The General Hospital School of Nursing, the only nursing school in Newfoundland at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914
At the reception Dr. MacDonald unveiled two large story boards about the 11 women that will be displayed on the grounds outside Memorial's School of Nursing.
Note: The first Newfoundland-born nurse to serve in WW1 was Martha Isabel Loder who studied nursing in Montreal and London. You can read about her in the spring 2016/2016 and Fall 2016 issues of the Newfoundland Quarterly http://www.mun.ca/nq/.