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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Mary Keir Beairsto
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Mary Keir Beairsto
Nursing Sister
Canadian Army Medical Corps
May 2, 1883
Yarmouth, NS
July 24, 1918
Halifax NS
Two years with the AMC
Halifax, NS
35
5 feet, 6 inches
Brown
Single
Presbyterian
Graduate Nurse
Jane Beairsto (Mother) Amherst, NS
July 2, 1919
Mary Beairsto served at the Rockhead Military Hospital from April 1916 until her enlistment in 1918.
Nursing Sister Beairsto served in Canada with the Canadian Army Medical Corps Training Depot No. 6,
Prince Edward Island Military Convalescent Hospital, Camp Hill and Subsidiaries, Halifax, NS.
On March 1, 1919 Nursing Sister Beairsto began to feel not as well as usual; however, she continued
to work until May 17.
She was admitted to hospital and test reports were positive for tuberculous. It was
recommended she spend six months in a Sanatorium. No longer able to work as a Nursing Sister in the
Canadian military, she was discharged on July 2, 1919.