From Nursing Sisters in Port Hope: https://www.alivingpast.ca/sisters.htm
Lieutenant Ada Andrews Kemp [Four years' Service] was born 02 June 1895 in Essex County, England. A Barnardo girl arriving at Hazelbrae in Peterborough in May 1904, she became a domestic servant with her Port Hope uncle, Alexander Walsh.
A graduate nurse, Ada was taken on strength on 11 April 1917 with the Canadian Army Medical Corps at Base Hospital, Toronto. Her attestation papers state she was 5'1" and weighed 103 pounds.
While serving in France, until her demobilization in Kingston on 11 June 1919, her medical record shows a number of throat infections (a tonsillectomy on 08 Dec 1917) and anaemia. She also was reported to have been treated for 'morphinism' (addiction to morphine)
in 1916.
She was awarded the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (ARRC), an award made to a "Fully-trained nurse or assistant nurse, probationer, or V.A.D. nursing member, who, belonging to one of the officially recognized nursing services, has shown special devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties, over a continuous and long period, or who has performed some very exceptional act of bravery and devotion at her post of duty. Up to five percent of the total establishment of nurses could receive the ARRC."
Following demobilization, Ada returned to Essex County, England, where she married George Pettican on 21 April 1928. Sadly, she passed away in July 1929.
Throughout the war, Ada Kemp maintained a photo album. Containing over 200 photographs, the majority of them small images taken with a personal camera, it shows glimpses of her experiences during the war and the people around her in the Hospitals where she served.
Lieutenant Ada Andrews Kemp [Four years' Service] was born 02 June 1895 in Essex County, England. A Barnardo girl arriving at Hazelbrae in Peterborough in May 1904, she became a domestic servant with her Port Hope uncle, Alexander Walsh.
A graduate nurse, Ada was taken on strength on 11 April 1917 with the Canadian Army Medical Corps at Base Hospital, Toronto. Her attestation papers state she was 5'1" and weighed 103 pounds.
While serving in France, until her demobilization in Kingston on 11 June 1919, her medical record shows a number of throat infections (a tonsillectomy on 08 Dec 1917) and anaemia. She also was reported to have been treated for 'morphinism' (addiction to morphine)
in 1916.
She was awarded the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (ARRC), an award made to a "Fully-trained nurse or assistant nurse, probationer, or V.A.D. nursing member, who, belonging to one of the officially recognized nursing services, has shown special devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties, over a continuous and long period, or who has performed some very exceptional act of bravery and devotion at her post of duty. Up to five percent of the total establishment of nurses could receive the ARRC."
Following demobilization, Ada returned to Essex County, England, where she married George Pettican on 21 April 1928. Sadly, she passed away in July 1929.
Throughout the war, Ada Kemp maintained a photo album. Containing over 200 photographs, the majority of them small images taken with a personal camera, it shows glimpses of her experiences during the war and the people around her in the Hospitals where she served.
From Nursing Sisters in Port Hope: https://www.alivingpast.ca/sisters.htm
Lieutenant Ada Andrews Kemp [Four years' Service] was born 02 June 1895 in Essex County, England. A Barnardo girl arriving at Hazelbrae in Peterborough in May 1904, she became a domestic servant with her Port Hope uncle, Alexander Walsh.
A graduate nurse, Ada was taken on strength on 11 April 1917 with the Canadian Army Medical Corps at Base Hospital, Toronto. Her attestation papers state she was 5'1" and weighed 103 pounds.
While serving in France, until her demobilization in Kingston on 11 June 1919, her medical record shows a number of throat infections (a tonsillectomy on 08 Dec 1917) and anaemia. She also was reported to have been treated for 'morphinism' (addiction to morphine)
in 1916.
She was awarded the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (ARRC), an award made to a "Fully-trained nurse or assistant nurse, probationer, or V.A.D. nursing member, who, belonging to one of the officially recognized nursing services, has shown special devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties, over a continuous and long period, or who has performed some very exceptional act of bravery and devotion at her post of duty. Up to five percent of the total establishment of nurses could receive the ARRC."
Following demobilization, Ada returned to Essex County, England, where she married George Pettican on 21 April 1928. Sadly, she passed away in July 1929.
Throughout the war, Ada Kemp maintained a photo album. Containing over 200 photographs, the majority of them small images taken with a personal camera, it shows glimpses of her experiences during the war and the people around her in the Hospitals where she served.
Lieutenant Ada Andrews Kemp [Four years' Service] was born 02 June 1895 in Essex County, England. A Barnardo girl arriving at Hazelbrae in Peterborough in May 1904, she became a domestic servant with her Port Hope uncle, Alexander Walsh.
A graduate nurse, Ada was taken on strength on 11 April 1917 with the Canadian Army Medical Corps at Base Hospital, Toronto. Her attestation papers state she was 5'1" and weighed 103 pounds.
While serving in France, until her demobilization in Kingston on 11 June 1919, her medical record shows a number of throat infections (a tonsillectomy on 08 Dec 1917) and anaemia. She also was reported to have been treated for 'morphinism' (addiction to morphine)
in 1916.
She was awarded the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (ARRC), an award made to a "Fully-trained nurse or assistant nurse, probationer, or V.A.D. nursing member, who, belonging to one of the officially recognized nursing services, has shown special devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties, over a continuous and long period, or who has performed some very exceptional act of bravery and devotion at her post of duty. Up to five percent of the total establishment of nurses could receive the ARRC."
Following demobilization, Ada returned to Essex County, England, where she married George Pettican on 21 April 1928. Sadly, she passed away in July 1929.
Throughout the war, Ada Kemp maintained a photo album. Containing over 200 photographs, the majority of them small images taken with a personal camera, it shows glimpses of her experiences during the war and the people around her in the Hospitals where she served.
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