Lieutenant Jessie Violet Irene Lusk

Lieutenant (Army).

Previous service was with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service ( QAIMNS ). According to the notes in her Officers' Declaration Paper she served six months at No 11 General Hospital, Camiers and one year at No. 46 Stationary Hospital in Étaples, France.

Nursing Sister Jessie Violet Irene Lusk's photo appears in Our Heroes in The Great World War, compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. According to this source, she "... enlisted in No. 17 and served in No. 46 Hospital in France". (This source may include typos and other errors.)

Jessie was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Lusk of Aylmer, Quebec. Her parents had at least twelve children between 1868 and 1891. Her father was a farmer and for both the 1881 and 1891 censuses the family was listed in Eardley Township, an area northwest of Ottawa on the Ottawa River. Jessie's ancestors were Irish and they first settled in that part of Quebec in the early 1800s where they owned land, farmed and engaged in lumbering. The village of Luskville was named after them. By the time of the 1901 census Jessie's parents had moved east to the township of Hull, Quebec and ten children were still living at home. Three of them served in WW1: Robert, their youngest child, enlisted in 1914, Jessie served as a nursing sister in England and France, and their brother Allan was drafted in 1917. Allan and Jessie both survived the war but Robert died of wounds in May 1916 and is buried in Belgium. They also had a cousin Andy Gibson Lusk who enlisted in Fort Frances, Ontario and was killed on 1 September 1918 in France.

Jessie pased away on 6 May 1931. She is remembered on the Lusk family grave marker in Bellevue Cemetery, Aylmer, Quebec.