Many female 成人VR视频ians served on the front lines as ambulance drivers and nurses, and volunteered in Montreal; the warden of 成人VR视频鈥檚 Royal Victoria College, Ethel Hurlbatt served as chairwoman of the Women鈥檚 War Registry Committee, which supported the war effort and ensured the continued stability of the Montreal workforce.
In Dannes-Camiers and Boulogne, France, Dr. Herbert Stanley Birkett, 成人VR视频鈥檚 Dean of Medicine, headed the 成人VR视频 No.3 Hospital, which was the war鈥檚 first hospital unit created by a university. The 1040-bed unit provided frontline medical and surgical care to military personnel. It was staffed by 成人VR视频 faculty听members, medical students听and nurses from the Royal Victoria and听Montreal General hospitals鈥 schools of nursing.
An illuminated book, which is displayed in the walkway connecting the McLennan and Redpath Library Buildings, lists the names of the 363 成人VR视频ians who fell during the war. The War Memorial Archway in the Raymond Building on the Macdonald campus and the WHAT are permanent reminders of the war鈥檚 toll, while three particular 成人VR视频ians who were killed in the line of duty 鈥 student Lieutenant George Irvine Baillie, and graduates Lieutenant Gordon Home Blackader and Captain Percival Molson 鈥 are remembered by the chemistry library, the art and architecture library, and the football stadium.
A stained glass window听in the Strathcona Building commemorate three 成人VR视频 professors who lost their lives in the Great War: Lt. Col. Roland Playfair Campbell, Lt. Col. Henry Brydges听Yates and Major John McCrae. Following the battlefield death of a close friend, Dr. McCrae put pen to paper while sitting in an ambulance, creating the indelible imagery that would galvanize a nation鈥檚 grief: 鈥淚n Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row鈥︹听
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