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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.
A special commemorative locket belonging to “Prince Edward Island’s Florence Nightingale” is rekindling interest in an early 20th century military heroine. Georgina Pope, a nurse who served in the South African War, received the gold-filled pendant and chain from the City of Ottawa.
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.
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.
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.
Four nurses accompanied Canada's first contingent to South Africa and four more joined the second, all with the honorary rank of lieutenant. For five months after their arrival, the first group, with Georgina Pope as senior sister, served at British hospitals just north of Cape Town.
Georgina Pope RRC (1862–1938) was a Canadian nurse who served with distinction in the Second Boer War and First World War.
Oct 16, 2012 · Georgina Pope was born in 1862 to William Pope and his wife and she grew up on an estate in Charlottetown. But she found her calling as a military nurse and served with distinction around...
Feb 7, 2024 · Georgina Pope has been the go-to producer for overseas projects shooting in Japan for decades. She’s navigated the country’s cultural, logistical, and technical landscape and film industry to help bring a panoply of projects to fruition.
Oct 19, 2018 · Nursing Sister Georgina Fane Pope earned Canada’s first Royal Red Cross Medal for her dedicated nursing service in the Boer War in South Africa. The Pope household in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island was a hotbed of journalism, legal issues and political strategies in the late 1800s.
