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Born in
1862 of a distinguished family in
Prince Edward Island
, Georgina studied nursing at the
Bellevue
Hospital
in
New York
, and in 1899 volunteered for nursing service in the Boer War. She
headed the first group of four nurses to go overseas, and spent more
than a year in
South Africa
amid extreme physical and emotional hardships. In 1902 she returned
there in charge of what was now the Canadian Army Nursing Service, and
next year was awarded the Royal Red Cross by Queen
Victoria
for conspicuous service in the field, the first Canadian to receive
that distinction. In 1908 she became the first Matron of the Canadian
Army Medical Corps, and during the First World War went overseas again
to serve in
England
and
France. She died in 1938.
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