Her weight dropped to a skeletal 25 kilograms (56 lb), but all the while, she continued caring for the sick and wounded. Remarking on her brush with oblivion, Chiwy reportedly quipped, “A black face in all that white snow was a pretty easy target. Generally speaking, hospitals are where people are cured, not killed. Original data: Historical Nurse Files, Compiled ca. Women weren’t allowed within 5 kilometers (3 mi) of all that bloodshed. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. A War to End All Wars... At 1057:30 on 11 November 1918, Battery 4 of the U.S. Navy Railway Gun Unit fired a 14-inch shell timed to hit a German target over 20 miles away … In the book, Vaccination Condemned, by Eleanor McBean, PhD, N.D., the author describes, in detail, personal and family experiences during the 1918 “Spanish Flu” pandemic. Once she exhausted all of her strength, she asked to be relieved from her duties and then lost consciousness. After wreaking havoc in Hawaii, the Japanese took aim at Manila. Those Germans must be terrible marksmen.”. Posts about WW1 written by cadeauca. When their hospital is bombed by the Germans, they pull themselves out of the rubble, extinguish the flames from overturned oil stoves and organize the orderlies to remove the patients to safety. She was very passianote about helping the army. Among them was Canadian Stationary Hospital Number 3, located in Doullens. Unfortunately, patients weren’t the sickest thing they saw. Pegahmagabow would would go on to fight for Indigenous rights in Canada, becoming the Supreme Chief of the Native Independent Government, a precursor to the Assembly of First Nations. Monument: Mercantile Marine Memorial - WW1. Because of her heroism, Aune became to first woman to receive the Cheney Award for valor by an airman. If asking a teller for $1,000, we would rather request ten $100 bills than 100,000 pennies. Soon, they surrendered to the Japanese. Only 22 nurses made it off the ship alive. Sister Ellen Savage managed to sing with a broken jaw, broken ribs, and broken people who needed her help. Eleanor Thomson is a decorated war veteran who proudly displays her war medals close to her heart on her Legion Pipe Band dress. Although Nursing Sisters focuses on two nurses in particular, Eleanor Thompson … In 1940, Germany rained bombs on London, striking the hospital in the process. She was undernourished, overworked, and sometimes the subject of racism from the soldiers she treated. Chiwy was a trained nurse and offered her services to an American physician whose assistants had been killed. She was the daughter of Rev. The women shared a love of motorcycles and soon shared an idea that made them legends. But war sometimes blurs that distinction. In 2012, helicopter flight nurse James Gennari was stationed in Afghanistan when he was as told a three-year-old who’d been shot was headed his way. An explosion caused the plane to slide across a rice paddy, go airborne for 0.8 kilometers (0.5 mi), and then slam into an irrigation ditch, where it split into four sections. On his return to Canada, May helps to establish Canada's first airfield and airline, May Aeroplanes Limited, in Alberta. Helen Keller was an author, lecturer, and crusader for the handicapped. Ms. Thomson was born in Newmarket, Ontario, but … [4] But it didn’t break her will to save lives. Wilfred George Thompson 1893-1966, a younger brother of Kenneth Sanders and Frank Herbert, also served in WW1. Chiwy helped hundreds of American soldiers, even bathing them with boiled snow. Luckily, the grenade did not detonate; unluckily, a wrong move could have easily changed that fact. 1959. Working from the cellar of a dilapidated house, the duo dispensed aid to an estimated 23,000 casualties over four years. They then oversaw the evacuation of the patients, ignoring their own injuries until everyone else was safe. On Christmas Eve 1944, volunteer nurse Augusta Chiwy nearly became a human Yule log. [1] Of her own volition, Chiwy withstood a blizzard of bombs and subfreezing cold. They also attracted attention from prominent people like Marie Curie (who discovered radium) and the king of Belgium. Among them are Meta Hodge and Eleanor Thompson, who tend to hundreds, sometimes thousands, of wounded men every day at a field hospital in Doulens, France. After more than two years of brutal captivity, they were freed. The nurses sought refuge in the muggy jungles of Bataan, where they looked after 6,000 patients and battled malaria, diminishing food supplies, and constant bombing by the Japanese. Thompson's general style is a touch pompous and Victorian perhaps, but the book is still very useful. Gennari’s noble efforts earned him a Bronze Star. Undeterred from serving, she became an Australian Army Nurse in 1941. He then had to help the Marine breathe manually because the ventilator malfunctioned. Canada, as a British Dominion, joins in the fight – a young country seeking to find its place on the world stage. There, nurses operated in an underground hospital. Unfortunately, Japanese torpedoes intercepted their ship. Trapped on a raft, they watched helplessly as ships and planes passed without noticing them. A bomb decimated her aid station in Bastogne, Belgium, killing 30 people. Eleanor Jean Thompson Facts She was a nursing sister who served the Canadian Army Medical Corps. A mere 15 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, airplanes had been turned into weapons of war. Expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934, Thompson continued her crusade against dictatorships in books, articles, her syndicated column "On the Record" (1936-1941), and broadcasts on NBC. The deadliest sniper of WWI was Francis Pegahmagabow, an Ojibwa soldier, How a former insurance salesman became an unexpected hero at Vimy Ridge, WWI: How two wartime nurses became the first Canadian women to win the Military Medal for their bravery. Brave, bold soldiers like Captain Thain MacDowell lead the Canadian force up the ridge, overwhelming the German forces. [8] But as the only surviving nurse, she took it upon herself to help the other survivors. World War I nurses commonly faced finger infections, pathogens, and physical exhaustion from assisting patients nonstop. Aboard the aircraft were 250 orphans, dozens of crew members, and Nurse Regina Aune. Born to an African mother and Belgian father, she was visiting her father for the holidays when the Battle of the Bulge began. But war sometimes blurs that distinction. The blast also buried nurses Eleanor Thompson and Meta Hodge under rubble. Find out more on the Imperial … With conscription sending nearly every able-bodied man of fighting age to the front, Canada's farms – which are responsible for not only feeding the nation, but also tens of thousands of Allied soldiers – face a serious labour shortage. Clearly, a scalpel wouldn’t cut it in this situation. As conditions worsened, American forces escaped to the island of Corregidor. Savage steered the group through those discouraging moments without hinting at the agony she must have felt. One of the 22,000 volunteers is 14 year-old Gerry Andrews of Winnipeg, who braves southern Manitoba's dangerous tornadoes in order to do his part for the war effort. 1916–ca. Rather, we focus on bigger figures like Florence Nightingale, the $100 bills of history. In 2011, the king of Belgium awarded Chiwy the Order of the Crown, and the US government honored her with the Civilian Award for Humanitarian Service. But countless lesser-known nurses also made valuable contributions. Beatrice MacDonald witnessed that danger firsthand in 1917. This is not least so for the portrait of poetic pre WW1 London from a most unusual … Kim Philby; Eleanor Philby ; Life in Moscow ; Melinda Maclean ; Primary Sources; References; Eleanor Kearns was born in Seattle in 1914. The crash sent Aune flying across the plane’s upper deck. A 20-year-old Marine had been shot with a 36-centimeter-long (14 in) rocket-propelled grenade intended for tanks. On April 21, 1918, May is flying his second-ever mission when he encounters German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron. Search for your loved one by country, state and city. With the men away at the front, Canada's women take on new roles, both at home and on the battlefield. Lieut W.G.Thompson's record includes: 1915 In April at Tel el Kebir … In World War I, … Despite resistance from the British military leadership, Thompson and Hodge receive the Military Medal for their bravery. But for roughly 70 years, she went unacknowledged. She faced a very traumatizing … It's not long before nearly half a million Canadians, including thousands of Indigenous soldiers, travel to Europe to serve beside their allies in the First World War. People called them “the mad Englishwomen,” but one of them was Scottish, and both were just insanely brave. 1 November 1914 Chaplain Arthur Henry John Pitt. Former insurance salesman-turned-general Arthur Currie bucks traditional military wisdom with an innovative attack on the German-held Vimy Ridge. [6] Eventually, the GIs reached their breaking point, and the nurses reached a crossroads. The group must have sung a long time. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, She lost her sight and hearing at the age of nineteen months to an … When their … Afterward, they were awarded the George Medal. Chiwy was just that tough. Husband of June Eleanor Thompson, Chilliwack, B.C. Pitt was born c. 1873 in Leamington, Warwickshire, brother to Horace Pitt. Francis Pegahmagabow, an Ojibwa soldier with exceptional scouting and marksman skills, becomes a key player on the Canadian front lines; first as a messenger, then as a sniper. Nursing Sister Eleanor Jean Thompson received the Military Medal for safely evacuating her patients. Tuner and Fleming had to climb through a window and crawl along a floor on the verge of collapsing. In 1939, Time magazine ran a cover story naming Thompson and Eleanor … Seventeen TB patients were trapped until Fleming and Turner guided them to safety. And while Savage had to deal with a broken jaw, all the survivors worried about the jaws of the sharks that circled them. Despite losing an eye, MacDonald insisted on seeing the war through to the end. When ordered to return home, she replied, “I have just started doing my bit.” She continued aiding soldiers until the armistice. Bravery and sacrifice define our new nation as war erupts across Europe. In 1929, he becomes a hero for a second time as he flies through a blizzard to deliver medicine to the remote Northern Cree community of Little Red River, Alberta, putting a stop to a diphtheria outbreak in the town. After graduating from Washington University, she worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson … It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. ARC ID: 649203.Records of the American National Red Cross, … However, there was a bomb expert on hand. Rank: Able Seaman: Unit: S.S. 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