The Story Behind The Statue
World War I Nursing Sister Gladys Elizabeth (Matheson) Crim
 R-A 26, 773- No# 3  R-A 17, 759 |
Canadian Military Hospital, Boulogne, France, 1918. Staff in front of huts.
On May 6, 1918, Gladys was ordered to serve at the No. 3 Canadian General Hospital in Boulogne, France, as seen in the photos. Here she served in the Medical Ward for cases such as Pneumonia and "Shellshock". She was no longer in the hospital; the units were huts that were close to the front lines. Gladys experienced her first of many air-raids here: "...bombing continued, night after night, and convoy after convoy brought wounded into our crowded wards...we would hurriedly bring those patients, on stretchers...to lie on the floors of the huts that had only the slight protection of sandbags as high as the windows...patients who had beds, were asked to lie beneath them."
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Last Updated: May 13, 2008
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