Mabel Louise Acret

Rank:

Nursing Sister

Unit at enlistment:

Royal Army Medical Corps, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service

Force:

B.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Vancouver, British Columbia - Unknown Cemetery

Commemorated at:

Grace Anglican Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

67 Brant Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

67 Brant Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Nurse

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

Winnipeg Tribune, July 16, 1925

Fortune Comes As Reward to Portage Girl - Former Nurse Inherits $10,000 For Attention to Invalid Cousin After the War

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, July 16 – Mrs. Gordon I. Snider, who resides with her husband some miles from Portage, has Just received word of a legacy of $10,000. Indirectly the result of her work as a nurse with the Canadian forces in Flanders. Mrs. Snider, formerly Miss Mabel Acret, of Brantford, Ont, returned to England after her services in France and stayed with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Emily Louise Acret. During her stay, Mr. Acret became ill and Miss Acret attended him as a nurse. In return for her services he promised to make provision for her when he had died. Fortune invested at his death, however, everything passed to Mrs. Acret, but it was known that the desires of the late Mr. Acret would be fulfilled. In the will of Mrs. Acret, who died a few weeks ago, and this was done. Mrs. Snider states that the Acret fortune is largely invested, some of it being in stock of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Bank of Montreal. She has not made any plans so far for spending the fortune, preferring to wait and see when she actually got the money, but in all probability the money will be invested. Mrs. Snider's mother and sister reside at Brantford, Ont. Mrs. Snider is well - known in this district, and her husband is the oldest son of Colonel. Irvine Robinson Snider who served in the Great War and also in South Africa.

BX November 25, 1965

SNIDER, Mabel Louise Acret – In Vancouver, on Tuesday, November 23, 1965, Mabel Louise Acret, Formerly of Brantford; widow of Gordon I. Snider; mother of Bert, Ralph and Doug; sister of Miss Therese Acret of Manitoba; aunt of Miss Helen McLaren of Brantford. Funeral and interment in Vancouver, Monday, November 29.