Ernestine CHAMPAGNE. Nursing Sister CAMC. No 8 Canadian General (Tented) Hospital. Saint Cloud Racecourse, France. (Originally known as No 4 Canadian Stationary Hospital (French Canadian)).
Born 27 January 1880 at Ste-Eustache, Québec, Canada to Honourable Judge Charles L. Champagne and Aglée Ethier.
Died 24 March 1919 aged 39 of pulmonary tuberculosis contracted whilst on active service in France.
At rest in St. Eustache Cemetery, Quebec, Canada.
Some notes from her service records -
Enlisted 23 May 1915 at Montreal and gave her residence as St Eustache Montreal, Quebec Canada.
20 July 1915 she was posted from No 4 British General Hospital to No1 Canadian Hospital, Etaples France. 28 July 1915 to No 4 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Shorncliffe, Kent. This hospital was under canvas, tents.
30 July 1915 transferred to Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Taplow, Buckinghamshire
1 March 1916 she was posted back to No 4 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Shorncliffe.
18 April 1916 duty on Hospital Ship, Aberdonian. The following day fell ill and was invalided to No 4 Canadian Stationary Hospital. 23 April posted to Nurses Sick Hospital, St Vincent Square, London.
06 June 1916 posted to Moore Barracks Hospital, Shorncliffe from sick leave.
01 August 1916 posted overseas to No 8 Canadian General Hospital, Rouen France
15 March 1917 she reported ill and was admitted as patient into her hospital
19 March 1917 transferred to Moore Barracks Canadian Hospital Shorncliffe Kent
From there was invalided to Nurses Hospital, 71 Vincent Square, London.
She was on a Medical Board at 71 Vincent Square, disability pulmonary tuberculosis. The opinion of the Board, permanently unfit, disability was contracted in service.
11 May 1917 she was to be discharged to Canada for further medical treatment
17 May 17 she sailed from Liverpool for Canada on Hospital Ship, Letitia
Following extract credited to -
http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=22948
The death has occurred in Montreal of Nursing Sister Ernestine Champagne, who succumbed, after an illness of three years, to consumption contracted on service in France. Miss Champagne joined Lieut.-Col. Mignault's French-Canadian Hospital Unit in 1915. For some time she served at the St. Cloud Hospital where working under canvas she contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, and was invalided home in 1917. Miss Champagne who, was the daughter of the late Justice Champagne, had been decorated by the French Government for distinguished service in France, and leaves her mother (nee Aglace Ethier) and four brothers and two sisters. Source: Quebec Chronicle, March 28, 1919, page 10. Note: She was invalided home on the hospital ship Letitia in May 1917.
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The death has occurred in Montreal of Nursing Sister Ernestine Champagne, who succumbed, after an illness of three years, to consumption contracted on service in France. Miss Champagne joined Lieut.-Col. Mignault's French-Canadian Hospital Unit in 1915. For some time she served at the 4th Canadian Stationary Hospital St. Cloud Hospital where working under canvas she contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, and was invalided home in 1917. Miss Champagne who, was the daughter of the late Justice Champagne, had been decorated by the French Government for distinguished service in France, and leaves her mother (nee Aglace Ethier) and four brothers and two sisters. Source:
Quebec Chronicle, March 28, 1919, page 10. Note: She was invalided home on the hospital ship
Letitia in May 1917.
