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Nurse Myra Bennett Heritage House29 April 2003
Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland
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Nurse Myra Bennett Heritage House a Provincial Registered Heritage Structure. This house was the home and clinic of Nurse Myra Bennett, the war trained english nurse who volunteered fro a Newfoundland posting through the British Overseas Nursing Association.3
A copy of Nurse Myra Maude Grimsley's Birth Certificate31 March 1904
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Nurse Myra Maude (Grimsley) Bennett was born on April 1, 1890. She was one of eight children born to a working class family in London, England.5
Nurse Myra Maude Grimsley Bennett with her family1913
London, England
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Nurse Myra Bennett was raised in a home where generosity knew no limits. Myra was drawn to nursing by the very fact that she saw a lot of sickness around and people needing help. It was not uncommon for people needing help to as her mother for assistance as she had a reputation for charity and kindness.7
A street in London1905
London, England
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She got her first job as a tailor in a London tailor shop, where she worked for six years until she began training as a nurse outside Manchester.9
Going to work on her bicycle1914
England
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From 1911 to 1915 she worked as a District Nurse in Woking, England (a railway junction town). In 1915 she completed a six month course in maternity at Woolwich, England earning the central Midwives Board of Certificate.11
Nurse Myra Grimsley Bennett1921
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Myra was a case worker in North London until the end of WWI and was faced with the major outbreak of Spanich Influenza in 1918. She was hired as a resident nurse in the London Home for Unwed Mothers.13
Nurse Bennett's first training shcool1912
England
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Myra completed courses in operative midwifery and anaesthesia at Clapham School of Midwifery directed by Dr. Anne McCall. While studying there Myra read an article stating that a mother and child had died of child birth while the husband went in aid of a doctor in Sadkatchewan, Canada. After reading the article she wrote a letter to the Overseas Nursing Association for a placement in Saskatchewan. |
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