Asleep in the Deep: Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War Kelly Dianne
Asleep in the Deep: Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War Kelly Dianne On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat…
Specifikacia Asleep in the Deep: Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War Kelly Dianne
Asleep in the Deep: Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War Kelly Dianne
On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of the Geneva Convention. It was the most significant Canadian naval disaster of the First World War.Anna Stamers, a thirty-year-old nursing sister from Saint John, was on the ship. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members died, including fourteen nursing sisters.
In this well-researched volume, Dianne Kelly explores Stamers's childhood and nursing education in Saint John; her decision to enlist and her transition to military nursing; her service during the war in field hospitals in both England and France; and her final posting aboard HMHS Llandovery Castle. Now, her story will finally be told. This vivid reconstruction of Stamers's life is both an illuminating biography of a young woman's experience of war and an important
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