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Ellen Roberts

Rank: 
Nursing Sister
Unit at enlistment: 
Canadian Army Medical Corps, No. 11 Canadian General Hospital
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Commemorated at: 
Grace Anglican Church
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Brantford, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
Base Hospital, 400 Gerrard Street, Toronto, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
19 Elizabeth Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Nurse
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
24

Letters and documents

BX December 6, 1918

Wedding Bells

Barry-Roberts

The marriage is announced of Nursing Sister Ellen (Dot) Roberts, a well-known Brantford young lady, and Capt. James Everett Barry of Toronto.  The event took place on Dec. 4 at Sandgate, Kent County, England.  The bride was a former member of Grace church choir, and since the war graduated at Victoria Hospital, Montreal, she was popularly esteemed in this city and her many Brantford friends will offer their best wishes to Captain And Mrs. Barry on the happy occasion.

BX December 24, 1918

Wedding Bells

Barry-Roberts

Word has been received of the marriage at the Church of St. Martin’s-in-the-Field, Shorncliffe, Kent, England, on December 7, 1918, of Ellen, youngest daughter of Mr. Edward Roberts, Brantford, and Captain James E. Barry, M.C., C.A.M.C., son of the late James Barry and Mrs. Barry of Niagara Falls, Ont.  The bride has been a nursing sister in France and England the past two years, while Captain Barry has been overseas three years serving as medical officer to the second Canadian infantry battalion in France.  After a wedding breakfast given by brother officers at Shorncliffe, Captain and Mrs. Barry left for a trip through Devon and Cornwall.

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