Fonds consists of letters to Irene Peterkin of Toronto from Nursing Sister Ruby G. Peterkin, who served in France and Greece during World War I, describing the living and working conditions in the medical stations, 1915-1917.
The fonds also contains photographic views of Salonika, Greece; Canadian General Hospital No. 4, Salonika; and portraits by Ruby Gordon Peterkin, C.A.M.C, 1914-1917. The photographs document the career of Ruby Gordon Peterkin as a nursing sister in the Canadian Army Medical Corps in Britain and at Salonika, in Greece. There are also three formal photographs of the graduating nursing class at Toronto General Hospital, 1911.