https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9 By: Hiyaw, Adam, Marilena & Carmela en-us 2023-09-20 21:17:24 UTC 2023-09-21 07:49:37 UTC hello@padlet.com aasgaardadam https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2713502057 We can assume she was of upper middle class if not higher class social status.

]]> 2023-09-20 21:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2713502057 aasgaardadam https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2713503255 Margaret was the youngest daughter of Joseph Fortescue, Chief Factor, Hudson’s Bay Company and Sarah Jane. She went to Miss Susan Parrott's, High-Class Ladies School in England, Dawlish, Devon, where her uncle Matthew Fortescue was a County Court Judge in Totnes. 

She was enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps on April 22, 1915, in Montreal, Quebec. 

In her spare time, we would assume she could have written letters to her loved ones. But it is hard to say with anything with confidence without limited specific information about her life  

We can assume that her expectations of life were certainly not to die on a ship in war. She probably chose her profession with the expectation of living a fulfilling life caring and treating others. 
Margaret trained as a nurse at Montreal General Hospital. With the outbreak of war she volunteered for foreign service and joined the Canadian Red Cross in 1915. She was 36 years old on attestation. 

]]> 2023-09-20 21:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2713503255 aasgaardadam https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2713503575 Margaret's life as a nurse during the war would be something that  she would never forget.The work was relentless. Nurses were responsible for observing their patients closely and monitoring them for any signs of complications, as well as for delivering a range of treatments. The Irish nurse Catherine Black summed up their feelings when she wrote in her memoir, King’s Nurse - Beggar's Nurse:( image at the top)]]> 2023-09-20 21:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2713503575 aasgaardadam https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2713504383 marilena & carmela ]]> 2023-09-20 21:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2713504383 bayrayhiyaw https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714228265 2023-09-21 07:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714228265 aasgaardadam https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714253993 We can assume a simialr letter of the sort was written at the time of her death to her loved ones/family ]]> 2023-09-21 07:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714253993 aasgaardadam https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714256932 2023-09-21 07:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714256932 aasgaardadam https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714262138 She died at the age of 40. She had been posted to H.M.Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle which was torpedoed and sunk in the Irish Sea 27 June 1918.]]> 2023-09-21 07:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714262138 bayrayhiyaw https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714265424 Even before the war all nurses during that time wanted to help/heal their country, because that's what their job was.
Then during the war their job had become more demanding when they healed solider after soldier, still believing they can still salvage what good there is in life as well as wishing for peace in their country. Their contribution to this war was a great deed that every soldier won't forget. Some have been given a very deserved awards after the war had ended. But some didn't make it to see the peace they fought so  hard for: however their work will never be forgotten by the world. Unfortunately Margaret was one of them.]]> 2023-09-21 07:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714265424 aasgaardadam https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714269069 2023-09-21 07:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aasgaardadam/3jfypcsk7nqr27b9/wish/2714269069