Asleep in the deep : nursing sister Anna Stamers and the First World War /Dianne Kelly.

"On June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contradiction of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members died, including 14 nursing sisters. It was the most significant Canadian naval disaster of the First World War. Anna Stamers, a thirty-year-old nursing sister from Saint John, was on the ship. Now, in this well-researched volume, her story will finally be told. Dianne Kelly draws on official records, newspaper reports, archival images, and diaries left behind by some of Stamers's fellow nurses to tell Stamers's story : her early years and education, her decision to enlist as a military nurse, her service in field hospitals in England and France, and her final posting aboard HMHS Llandovery Castle. The vivid reconstruction of Stamers's life is both an illuminating biography of a young woman's experience of war and an important record of the role Canadian nursing sisters played during the Great War."--