Agnes Warner And The Nursing Sisters Of The Great War (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
As the demands on her grew, it seemed impossible to get away, not even to be with her mother and siblings in Saint John when the sad news came that General D.B. Warner had passed away at the age of eighty-five. His obituary noted that his daughter Agnes was “nurse in charge of one of the important hospitals of the French Government on the Belgian Front.” That was February, and Warner was in the process of packing up and relocating Ambulance Mobile No. 1 to another part of Belgium. The ambulance would move several times again, always following the 36th Corps of the French army. Now expanded to hold more beds and handle more serious wounds closer to the front, the ambulance kept seventeen nurses on full-time duty. Warner took charge of this crew as the hospital’s matron sometime before May 1917, just as the hazards of its work were multiplying. The British Journal of Nursing would caution in its May 26 issue that “The work at this hospital greatly appeals to the nurses, although the Matron, Miss Warner, carefully warns Sisters who wish to join the staff that they must be ready to put up with any difficulties.”
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