Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse Alice Elizabeth Nettleton
Survivor of WW1
Date of Death:
General Information
Conflict:
WW1
Regimental No.:
NA
Cause of Death (in war):
Survived
Branch:
British Army
Regiment:
Voluntary Aid Detachment
Battalion:
Voluntary Aid Detachment
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Date of Birth :
Place of Birth:
Simcoe, Ontario
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Date of Discharge:
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Date of Death:
Age at Death:
38 years 4 months
Country Born:
Canada
Trade or Calling:
Nurse
Next of Kin:
William Nettleton, father.Glenholme, Strathroy, Ontario
Address at Enlistment:
Religion:
Unknown
Place of Enlistment:
London, Ontario
Was a Prisoner of War:
No
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Marital Status:
Single
Prior Military Experience:
No
Saw Service in:
Canada
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Buried at:
Strathroy Municipal Cemetery, Strathroy, Ontario
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| Conflict |
Rank |
Regiment |
Branch |
Unit |
Company |
Date From |
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| WW1 |
Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse |
Voluntary Aid Detachment |
British Army |
Voluntary Aid Detachment |
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Notes
There could be a debate as to her suitability to be listed here. She did train as a V.A.D. By most measures her death was not considered war related.
Partial obituary:
She was a member of the Mary Armstrong Chapter of the I.O.D.E. and took the V.A.D. course in London last winter, becoming a member of St John Ambulance Brigade. Though still a girl in her teens, she showed an unusual strength of character when she forsook the comforts of home, that she might serve in response to the Macedonian cry from the West for teachers to take the place of the boys gone to the war. She along with her two friends, Misses Gwendolyn and Marjorie DeCou, last spring hastened to the West and Miss Nettleton was located at Oyen, Alberta. In her little school on the prairie she proved faithful to her trust, had splendid success, and was happy in her work. But she bent her efforts beyond her class-room when she assisted in a little church and Sunday school in the community in which she served as organist. And when the school was closed on account of influenza, she immediately turned to nursing sufferers in the emergency hospital at Cereal, a little town nearby. It was while engaged in this self-sacrificing work that she contracted the disease, to which she succumbed after only three days illness.
(Toronto World on November 26th, 1918, page 7) NETTLETON - On Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1918, at the Isolation Hospital, Cereal, Alberta, Alice Annie Nettleton, V.A.D., younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nettleton of Glenholme, Strathroy, Ont., aged 20 years; died while actively engaged in patriotic work, being a member of St. John's Ambulance Brigade, Lord Kitchener Division, London, Ont. Interment in Strathroy about Nov. 27.
