Nursing Sister Leonora Gregory-Allen
Survivor of WW1
Date of Death:
General Information
Conflict:
WW1
Regimental No.:
NA
Cause of Death (in war):
Survived
Branch:
Army
Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Battalion:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Date of Birth :
Place of Birth:
Muskoka, Ontario
Date of Enlistment:
Age at Enlistment:
29 years
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Date of Death:
Age at Death:
69 years 8 months
Country Born:
Canada
Trade or Calling:
Nursing Sister
Next of Kin:
Mrs. Wm. Gregory-Allen, Mother, 1243 Oscar St., Victoria, British Columbia
Address at Enlistment:
1243 Oscar St., Victoria, British Columbia
Religion:
Church of England
Place of Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Was a Prisoner of War:
Not Specified
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Marital Status:
Not Specified
Prior Military Experience:
Yes
Saw Service in:
Europe
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Nursing Sister |
Canadian Army Medical Corps |
Army |
Canadian Army Medical Corps |
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Notes
The following biography is transcribed from The War Memorial Volume of Trinity College, Toronto. Edited by A. H. Young and W. A. Kirkwood. Printers Guild, Limited, Toronto, 1922. It is transcribed as it originally appeared, therefore it may contain typos or other errors.
GREGORY-ALLEN, LEONORA; Provincial Royal Jubilee, Hospital, Victoria, B.C. Daughter of Mrs. Gregory-Allen, 1243 Oscar St., Victoria, B.C.; Arts 1906-1907; Gazetted August, 1915; on Active Service, October, 1916; Work-point Barracks, Esquimalt, seven months; Overseas, May, 1917; transport Ausonia; torpedoed 80 miles south of Ireland; picked up by mine-sweeper and after nine hours transferred to a torpedo-boat destroyer; landed at Queenstown; Bramshott until December; France, December, 1917; No. 9 Stationary Hospital, St. Omer; bombed and shelled in Spring Drive of 1918; moved to Etaples; No. 1 General Hospital, Etaples until May, 1918, when the hospital area was almost destroyed by bombs; attached No. 2 General Hospital Le Treport for a few weeks and later transferred to No. 59 British C.C.S., until the Armistice; No. 2 General Hospital Le Treport until transferred to England, March, 1919; stationed at Taplow and Beechhill near Windsor; returned from overseas July, 1919; discharged at Toronto, remaining on the R.O. List.
The date of death was obtained from an obituary in The Canadian Nurse, Volume 54, found on the www.archive.org website. She married Alfred Brock Smith in 1930 and died in Cranbrook, British Columbia.
Research Notes
Researched by: M. I. Pirie
