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Jessie Whidden Brown Jaggard

1873 – 1915

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Military Service Age: 42 Force: Army Unit: Canadian Army Medical Corps Division: 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital Jessie trained to be a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital and went on to become superintendent of a hospital near Philadelphia. Later, she married and had a son. In May of 1915 she enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and, with another nursing sister from Ontario, was among 70 Canadian nurses stationed on Lemnos to treat thousands of wounded and sick Allied servicemen who had fought at Gallipoli. The medical staff faced poor sanitation, illness, heat, a poor diet and scarce water. Given the large influx of wounded soldiers, records indicate two nurses were required to change the dressing on a patient's wound - one to change the dressing and one to fan flies out of the wound. Four short months after enlisting, Jessie succumbed to disease that must have been rampant there. It is said that she died with her 17-year-old son's photo in her hand. Wife of Herbert A. Jaggard, of Elmira, New York.

Name
Jessie Whidden Brown Jaggard
Locality
Πεδινό, Grecia
Born
28 mai 1873
Died
25 septembrie 1915
Age
42 years
From
Wolfville, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Location
Portianos Military Cemetery ↗
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Cemetery
Portianos Military Cemetery
Cemetery
V. D. 177.
Locality
Πεδινό
Country
Grecia
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Jessie Whidden Brown Jaggard

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