Fonds consists of a narrative by Anne E. Ross describing her service as a nursing sister with No. 3 Stationary Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps, and with the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital in England, France, and the Mediterranean.
Fonds also consists of photographic material depicting group photos, activities and personnel of nursing sisters of No. 3 Stationary Hospital, C.A.M.C., Ottawa, Ontario, photos taking place in Canada, England, and in the Mediterranean theatre of operations while based on the island of Lemmos, of staff, patients, faculties, major events and visitors at the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital and photographs from the First World War.
Ross, Anne E., 1890-1981 : Anne E. (Annie) Stinson was born in in Nepean Township, Carleton County, Ontario in April 1890. She graduated from the Lady Stanley Institute in Ottawa (later the Ottawa Civic Hospital Nursing School) in 1913. After additional training in 1914 at the Quebec Military Hospital, she enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) as a nursing sister on 12 April 1915. Stinson went overseas and saw service with No. 3 Stationary Hospital, CAMC, and the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital. After a short period in England at the Astor estate in Taplow, she served in Alexandria, Egypt, Lemnos in the Greek Islands and France. For the last five months of the war, she held the position of night supervisor with responsibility for a hospital with 36 wards of 40 patients each.
After the war, she continued her service as a military nurse in Kingston, Ont. until her marriage to Brigadier General Arthur Edward Ross in 1923. Anne E. Ross was active in the Red Cross, the Infant's Home in Kingston, and local politics. During World War II she worked with the Salvation Army's Red Shield. She died in Kingston, Ont. in 1981.
