Asleep in the deep : nursing sister Anna Stamers and the First World War / Dianne Kelly.
Asleep in the deep : nursing sister Anna Stamers and the First World War / Dianne Kelly.
By
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Kelly, Dianne, 1951-
Publication Date
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2021
Publication Information
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Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions and The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society,
Volume
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v. 28
Physical Description
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222 p. : ill., chart.
Subject Term
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Nurses -- Canada -- Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care.
Military nursing -- Canada -- History.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, Canadian.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, German.
Series
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NEW BRUNSWICK MILITARY HERITAGE SERIES ;
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
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On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members died, including fourteen nursing sisters. It was the most significant Canadian naval disaster of the First World War. Anna Stamers, a thirty-year-old nursing sister from Saint John, was on the ship. Now, her story will finally be told. In this well-researched volume, Dianne Kelly explores Stamers’s childhood and nursing education in Saint John; her decision to enlist and her transition to military nursing; her service during the war in field hospitals in both England and France; and her final posting aboard HMHS Llandovery Castle. This vivid reconstruction of Stamers’s life is both an illuminating biography of a young woman’s experience of war and an important examination of the role nursing sisters played during the Great War.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781773101767
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