Writing Task

When you think of the women of world war one most think of the wives and the mothers of the young man killed in the fighting but there were women who served overseas some from right here in our province braving the horrors of the great war all to help in the fight veronica cooper has more. 


Playing a vital role more then 2500 canadian nurses served in world war one most people would assume that they served in hospitals in Britain but many of them were right behind the frontline many of them were killed in bombings and artillery strikes in some cases they.



Had their lungs damaged by poison gas among the collections at the royal BC museum is this one memorabilia donated by canadian nurses some from right here in BC in some cases they didn’t come to the archives till about 1963 towards the end of the life of some of the nurses who survived those events this helmet is an important piece of the collection.