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Cecily Jane Georgina Fane Pope, RRC (January 1, 1862 – June 6, 1938) was a Canadian nurse who served with distinction in the Second Boer War and the First World War.
Dec 13, 2007 · Georgina Pope is credited with establishing Canadian military nursing as a fully-integrated role for women in the armed forces. She did so through her political connections and upper class origins. Nursing sisters were the first, and with few exceptions, only women in the Canadian armed forces until 1940–1941.
Learn about Georgina Pope, a Canadian nurse who served in the South African War and received the Royal Red Cross. See her commemorative locket, medal and other artefacts at the War Museum.
Sep 12, 2014 · Georgina Fane Pope served during the South African War (1899–1902) and was the first Matron of the CAMC nursing service (1908). For much of the First World War, Pope was in charge of training nurses in Halifax. She was sent overseas in 1917, when she was 55 years old.
Learn about Georgina Fane Pope, the first Canadian to receive the Royal Red Cross Medal for her nursing service in the Boer War. She was also the first Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Army Nursing Corps and a leader in military nursing reform.
Introduction: Georgina Pope (1862 - 1938) was a Canadian nurse who served with distinction in the Second Boer War and the First World War. Early Life: The Pope household in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island was a hotbed of journalism, legal issues, and political strategies in the late 1800s.
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Born in Charlottetown, Georgina Pope chose nursing as a career. After training and working in the United States, she was selected in 1899 to superintend Canada's military nurses in the South African War. She was the first Canadian to receive the Royal Red Cross.
