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Lieutenant Margaret Isabella Leitch Reid

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1891-10-20
Place of birth: Victoria British Columbia Canada
Next of kin: Mrs. Margaret Westland Reid, Mother, Central Park, British Columbia
Marital status: no data
Occupation (attested): Graduate Nurse
Occupation (normalized): Professional Nurse, General
Address: Central Park, British Columbia
Gender: female
Religion: Presbyterian

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank: Lieutenant
Rank detail

Lieutenant (Army).

Degree of service: Great Britain
Survived war: yes

Images

Nurse Margaret Reid, Vancouver Daily Sun, 26 November 1917

RESEARCH INFORMATION

LAC ID: 592138
Attestation record(s): image 1
Service file: B8172-S003
Uploader's Notes:

"Miss Margaret Reid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.G.L. Reid, Central Park, did wonderful work with the C.A.M.C. She joined that corps in 1917 and has recently passed special examination in nursing medical subjects with high honors at Buxton, England."

From The British Columbian Victory Edition, Columbian Printing Company, New Westminster 1917: "How Burnaby Ladies Helped in the War" Page 15

A photograph and short article on Margaret Reid appeared in the Vancouver Daily Sun on November 26th, 1917 (attached). Link to original

The text accompanying the photo was:

NURSE MARGARET REID

BURNABY, Nurse Margaret Reid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. L. Reid, of Central Park, left on Saturday evening for Winnipeg, where she has received orders to make her headquarters until drafted into an overseas unit. Nurse Reid is a graduate of the Vancouver General hospital, and volunteered some months ago for overseas service, but was not called until Saturday. Nurse Page1 also of the Vancouver General hospital, whose home is in Matsqui, left with Miss Reid for Winnipeg and will become attached to an overseas unit as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made.

1Veronica E. Page

Uploader's Research notes: [Nursing Sister Army Canadian Army Medical Corps No. 10 Training Depot ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2009-01-19
Last modified: 2013-04-19