Lieutenant Bertha Margaret Mowry

Lieutenant (Army).

Article in the Peterborough Examiner of January 7, 1918 states that she arrived home in Peterborough 'unexpectedly' on "14 days' leave which she obtained by serving on transport duty on the Metagama on her trip to and from Canada." The article provided some background of her two years in Belgium and France since she had enlisted in January, 1916. Further articles on January 16 and 17 review her presentations at Murray St Church and to the Red Cross while she was in Canada.

Nursing Sister Bertha Mowry, 588 Charlotte street, graduate of Nicholls at present at Orpington Hospital has been overseas for three years most of which time she has spent in France and Belgium. Miss Mowry numbers amongst her experiences some narrow escapes from death in the hospitals when bombed by the Huns. In January 1918, she returned to Canada for a much needed rest and on her return to England was stationed with the Orpington Hospital which she hopes to leave presently to return to the firing line. (Peterborough Examiner, August 1918)

The following report appeared in the Toronto World - 18 February 1919, page 5, under the "Veterans" section, likely referring to membership in the G.W.V.A.:

Two nursing sisters are among the applicants for membership in the central branch, one of them, Nursing Sister C. E. Greenwood, an original with four years' service in France to her credit, and the other, Nursing Sister Bertha M. Mowry, with three years' service overseas.