Rank unknown Elizabeth (Bessie) Margaret Ritchie Kilpatrick

Rank unknown (British Army).

Nursing District - Toronto Central # 1

Canadian hospital - Central Military Convalescent Hospital, College St., Toronto - 9 weeks

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Posted April 12, 1918 to April 24, 1919 - Served overseas 12 months

Teacher, English; Branksome Hall 25 years

University of Toronto, B.A. (1908); Teacher's Training College; first taught at St. Margaret's College after graduation; taught English

Many other well-educated veteran VAD teachers, nevertheless, returned to their classrooms following the war, including Elizabeth Kilpatrick, who was 34 when she concluded her year of VAD service in a British military hospital in Newcastle. Scottish by birth, Elizabeth had emigrated to Canada with her family as a young child. She returned to England to obtain her teaching certification after graduating from the University of Toronto in 1908, then subsequently took up a post in Toronto at St Margaret's College for girls. For nearly a year prior to her selection for overseas VAD service in 1918, Elizabeth had volunteered part-time for VAD work in a Toronto military convalescent hospital. The tradition of service was well established in Elizabeth=s family; her father was a professor of divinity at Knox College in Toronto, her brother an army chaplain and later principal of a Toronto theological college, and her sister had been a missionary in India before settling into a teaching career. Not affected by a post-war need for change, Elizabeth also returned to Toronto and entered a new position at Branksome Hall, teaching English there until her retirement 25 years later.