Isobel Katherine CUMMING
- Extended Description
- Isabel Katherine CUMMING. Nursing Sister CAMC. No1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples.
Born 17 January 1881 at Melrose, Pictou County, Nova Scotia to Reverend Robert and Corrina Cumming, of 43 Mitchell Street, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
Died 4 February 1921 aged 40.
At rest in Auburn Cemetery, Westville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Some notes from her service records -
Enlisted 14 April 1915 at Halifax, Canada
22 May 1915 with No 3 Stationary Hospital, Rouen
28 July 1915 with No 1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples.
16 November 1915 admitted as a patient into No 24 General Hospital, Etaples suffering from influenza. Discharged fit for duty 31 November 1915. She was re-admitted the same day suffering from phthisis.
06 December 1915 invalided to England on Hospital Ship, Newhaven.
15 May 1916 she was on a Medical Board at the Military Hospital, Halifax, Yorkshire.
Commemorated on WW1 War Memorial New Gasgow, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
