Nurse.
Born at Toronto, Ontario in 1880, daughter of Georgina Sophia Carruthers (1841-1900) and Thomas Clarkson Scoble, sister-in-law of John Cowan Gillespie, she moved to Manitoba with her family in 1881. Educated there, she moved to New York City in 1903 where she trained at the Presbyterian Nurses Training Hospital. In 1914, she enlisted as a nurse in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and, the next year, was assigned the First Canadian Stationary Hospital at Lemnos, transferred to Salonika in 1916 where she contracted malaria. After recovering, she was transferred to the First Canadian Casualty Clearing Station.
Later she nursed in England she spent several periods in convalescent hospitals due to malarial flare ups and anemia. Discharged in 1919, she was living in Manhattan, New York at the time of the 1920 US census and was still there as of 1950. She returned to Canada around 1953 and lived in retirement at 149 Spence Street, Winnipeg. She died at the Grace Hospital on 29 June 1963 and was buried in the St. John's Cathedral Cemetery.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 July 1963, page 21.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Doug Kuntz and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 February 2025
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