Lieutenant Clare Gass

Lieutenant (Army).

Named on Nominal Roll for No. 3 General Hospital (McGill), embarkation Port - Montreal, Ship - S.S. Metagama, and dated 06 May 1915.

Nursing Sister Clare Gass wrote a war diary which was published in 2000:

Susan Mann (ed.), The War diary of Clare Gass, 1915-1918, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. Illustrated.

Online edition (partial) at Google Books.

Gass served in eight hospitals in the U.K. and France. The publication includes personal photographs taken by Gass which show the living conditions of Nursing Sisters.

A book review by M. J. Denham - details.

A book review by L. McNeill - details.

The digitized service record for Clare Gass is online at the Lest We Forget Project

At least 5 children of Robert and Nerissa Gass served in the C.E.F. during WWI. In descending order of age they were:

On page 346 of "Wall of Fire: The Battle of Vimy Ridge," author Michael Krawchuk mentions Lieutenant Laurence Gass' death on April 8th, indicating he was her brother. However, on his Attestation he gives his father's name as J. B. Gass of Iroquois, Ontario. He may have been a relative, but census data does not show him as her brother.