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Lieutenant Mary Ethel Morrison

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1877-02-27
Place of birth: Pictou Pictou County Nova Scotia Canada
Next of kin: Lydia Ann Morrison, Mother, 1442 Elford St., Victoria, B.C.
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Professional Nurse
Occupation (normalized): Professional Nurse, General
Gender: female
Religion: Church of England
Date of death: 1954-12-24
Buried: Victoria (Ross Bay) Cemetery, O 085 W F

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank: Lieutenant
Rank detail

Lieutenant (Army).

Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: yes

RESEARCH INFORMATION

LAC ID: 205453
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B6411-S049
Uploader's Notes:

Nursing Sister Mary Ethel Morrison received the Royal Red Cross and was twice mentioned in despatches. She served in England, Salonika and France.

Nursing Sister Mary Ethel Morrison kept a photo album which became the subject of a book entitled Battlefront Nurses in WWI, written by her niece.

Battlefront Nurses in WW I
Author: Maureen Duffus
Published 2009, Victoria, BC
ISBN 978-0-9733809-1-0
168 pages
A diary, a memoir & photo albums from two British Columbia Nursing Sisters.

Photograph of NS Mary Ethel Morrison.

Victoria Daily Colonist - November 3, 1938, 6 - Oak Bay police search for medals stolen from home of Miss Mary Ethel Morrison: Royal Red Cross Medal, Victory Medal, General Service medal, 1914-15 Star and a Silver Jubilee Medal.

[Nursing Sister, enlisted September 16, 1915 at London. Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Next of kin listed as Mrs M Morrison, 1442 Elford Street, Victoria. Died December 24, 1954, Veterans’ Hospital, resident of Oak Bay.

Daughter of Malcolm Morrison & Lydia Ann Rood, sister of Alice Ann Yates.]

Uploader's Research notes: [Nursing Sister Army Canadian Army Medical Corps Canadian Army Medical Corps ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2007-05-07
Last modified: 2021-01-04