NURSING SISTER MARGARET LOWE
CANADIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE
28TH MAY 1918 AGE 32
BURIED: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE
Margaret Lowe was injured in a German air raid that hit the 1st Canadian General Hospital on 19 May 1918. She sustained a fractured skull and chest penetrating wounds and died nine days later. Born in Scotland, Morayshire, she trained as a nurse in Winnipeg Civic Hospital and enlisted in May 1917. She served initially in Canadian hospitals in the UK and then was sent to France in January 1918. It was her father who chose her inscription, her mother having died some time before.