Martha Loder
Martha Isabel Loder | |
|---|---|
 Msrtha Loder | |
| Born | 1884 |
| Died | June 25, 1963 |
| Other names | Mona |
| Occupation | Nurse |
| Known for | First Newfoundland woman known To have volunteered as a nurse during World War One. |
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Martha Loder is the first Newfoundland woman known to have volunteered as a Nurse during World War One. Loder’s war service overlaps with the initial training of the first 500 of the Newfoundland regiment, and she was in a theatre of war over ten months before the regiment landed in Suvla bay on the night of September 19, 1915. She was demobilized on March 17, 1919.[1]
Early Life
Martha was born in 1884, daughter of John Loder who had moved from Ireland's Eye and was the first settler of Snook's Harbour proper. Her mother, was Jane Tilley Smith, born in Hant's Harbour, but having later settled in Elliott's Cove with her siblings and parents.
She attended the small chapel-schools in Snook's Harbour. Later from about 1906 to 1910 teaching in the Methodist school's in Apsey Brook, Snook's Harbour, and Elliott's Cove, which opened at different times of the year, sharing teachers.
Marha, aka Mona, then moved to study nursing at London Hospital, the largest such school in Great Britain. She graduated from that prestigious school in 1914, and moved to Montreal to do private nursing.
When war was declared, she quickly returned to Great Britain, sailing in October 1914, just days after the first 500 of the Newfoundland Regiment set sail for Devonport.
War Duty
Later Life
Source Material
All info contained with in this page is a summarization of the wonderful Newfoundland Historical Society article embedded below. <pdf width="800" height="500">File:Aspects.pdf</pdf>
- ↑ Duley, Margot I. NURSE MARTHA ISABEL LODER (1884-1963) AND THE GREAT WAR: From Snook’s Harbour to the Somme (PDF). The Newfoundland Historical Society. p. 1.