VETERANS’ SERVICE RECOGNITION BOOK – VOLUME 20 / 89 THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND COMMAND POPE, Georgina Fane BOER WAR & WWI Georgina was born on January 1, 1862, on Prince Edward Island. The daughter of William Pope, a father of the Confederation. She travelled to New York where she trained as a nurse at Bellevue Hospital. In October, she volunteered for nursing service in the Second Boer War. In command of the first group of nurses to go overseas, she served for more than a year in South Africa. In 1901, Pope, along with two other nurses, Deborah Hurcomb and Sarah Forbes, received medals for their war service from the Duke of York, later King George V, during his tour to the Outposts of the British Empire. She returned there in 1902 as commander of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in charge of a second group of eight Canadian Nurses. In 1903, she became the first Canadian to receive the Royal Red Cross awarded to her for meritorious and distinguished service in the field. She was also the first of 6419 females to receive this award. In 1908, she was appointed first Matron of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. In 1917, aged 55, Pope, although in poor health, went to work near Ypres and served for the remainder of the Great War until 1918. After that she returned to her native PEI and passed away in 1938. McKENZIE, Theodore Cuyler WWI Lieutenant Theodore McKenzie served with the 8th Siege Battery, Canadian Garrison Artillery. He died on February 19, 1919, at the age of 25. He was the son of John T. McKenzie and Mary McKenzie of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He is remembered with honour at Brookwood Military Cemetery.
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