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Nurse's Hat

This nurse’s cap is unusual in both its colour and design. The Bunker Military Museum has been attempting to identify its origins but so far has been unsuccessful.

Two thousand five hundred nurses volunteered in WWI. Some worked in hospitals behind the front lines, others served closer to the front in Casualty Clearing Centres. Still others worked on hospital ships that would return wounded soldiers to Canada. Nurses faced many dangers. Medical centres and hospitals were bombed, and hospital ships carrying the wounded back home risked being torpedoed by German submarines.

Nurses hat

Date: WWI?

Copyright: Bunker Military Museum

Image Description:

Unidentified nurse’s hat.

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