Canadian Army Nurses

[Tonym]

Am being a bit thick or should it be obvious?

What is the difference in a Canadian Army Nurse One in the Canadian Army Medical Corps and another in the Canadian Army Nursing Service?

It's keeping me awake

Tony

[chrisharley9]

Have lost a few hours over that one myself Tony

All The Best

Chris

[HERITAGE PLUS]

Tony

I could be wrong however I believe that the CAMC Nurses were permanent staff whilst the CANS were volunteers (boTh in peacetime and war)

For history of the CANS see:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/nursing-si...ble-of-contents

Dave

[Borden Battery]

I honestly don't know either. Perhaps a "Google" search and here are some websites recommended by the CEF Study Group. Borden Battery

War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps

This is a very comprehensive "on-line" book on the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the Great War. This on-line book of some 300 pages [with text, figures and footnotes] includes the following chapters an Introduction, Rise of the CAMC, Assembly at Valcartier, Salisbury Plain, With the BEF in France, Second Battle of Ypres (Gas), Festubert, Givenchy, Plugstreet, Establishment of Hospitals in France, Stationary Hospitals and Other Medical Units. [Recommendation by marc leroux / www.canadianGreatWarProject.com][Jan 2006]

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/adami/camc/camc.html

Hospitals and Casualty Clearing Stations – BEF

The website includes eighteen direct photostats of documents, dated 13th. July 1923 which were sent from the Ministry of Pensions to the British Red Cross Society Records Office. Theses typed pages give the names of the locations, in alphabetical order, dates and positions of the various Hospitals or Casualty Clearing Stations on the Western Front for the British Expeditionary Force. The names of these medical units are as follows: Bac-Du-Sud-La to Boisleux-au-Mont, Bonn to Bussy - Le- Chateau. Calais to Chocques. Clerques to Don, Duai to Etaples, Etaples to Gezaincourt, Gezaincourt to Hazebrouk, Hazebrouk to Le Quesnoy, Le Touquet to Lozinghem, Mallasise to Moulle, Namps to Paris Plage, Pernes to Recmenil Farm, Remy to Roziere, Rouitz to Sweveghem,Tincourt to Versailles. This material may be of use to researchers trying to verify hospital and CCS locations. [Recommended by ____] [May 2006]

http://www.ku.edu/carrie/specoll/medical/CCS/ccs.htm

Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds - A Canadian Nurse in World War I

This Trent University website contains the following: #1 Canadian Stationary Hospital - Information about this Hospital (contains maps and image), 53 of Helen's Letters, 16 Assorted Photographs and Images (Lemnos, Le Treport, a typical Hospital Ward, lunch by Pyramids etc.) and three of Helen's Diaries with extra photographs. [Recommendation by Nelson][Jan 2006]

http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm

The Call to Duty - Canada's Nursing Sisters

This Library and Archives Canada exhibition tells the story of six women who served as nursing sisters during the First World War. "Active Duty" presents the personal diaries, letters and photographs of these women. "Caregiving on the Front" provides a history of nursing sisters during the First World War. Specific sections of the website include: Introduction, The Canadian Army Nursing Corps: Brief History of the Military Nursing Service, The Canadian Army Nurses: Who Were They, Enlistment, The Work of Military Nurses: Living Conditions, Working Conditions, Professional Relations and Social Life and Conclusion

[Recommendation by Nelson][Jan 2006]

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/nursing-sisters/index-e.html

[Sue Light]

I think the difference is just one of terminology. The Canadian Army Nursing Corps was composed of only a handful of reservists at the outbreak of war, with three or four permanent members, so I don't think the Reserve/Regular idea works. I've always thought that because they held commissioned rank in the Army, once mobilised as part of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, they adopted that title, but were still the CANC first and foremost.

Sue

[Tonym]

Thanks all:

So it appears that I was not so thick after all

Cheers, Tony