Lieutenant
Macdonald, Katherine Maud Mary
Unit
No 1 Canadian General Hospital
Branch
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Service Component
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Service Number
birth
1893/01/18
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
death
1918/05/19
France
grave
Étaples Military Cemetery, France
Gender
Female
Katherine Maude Mary Macdonald was born in Brantford, Ontario, on 18 January 1893.
A nurse, Macdonald was appointed a nursing sister with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) on 9 November 1916. She initially served in the military hospital in Military District No. 1, centred in London, Ontario. Macdonald embarked for England with the CAMC draft on 6 April 1917. Arriving on 16 April 1917, she was first posted to No. 10 Canadian Stationary Hospital (CSH) in Seaford. On 17 October 1917, she was transferred to No. 14 CSH in Eastbourne. Macdonald was reposted to No. 10 CSH on 19 November 1917. Continuing her jumps to and from hospitals, she was attached to No. 14 CSH when No. 10 CSH proceeded to France on 4 December 1917. Macdonald then joined the No. 10 CSH in France on 28 January 1918. On 8 March 1918, she was transferred to No. 1 Canadian General Hospital (CGH), in Étaples. That was to be her last move. Macdonald was killed when bombs hit No. 1 CGH during a German air raid on Allied positions at Étaples on the night of 19 May 1918. She was one of the 53 Canadian nursing sisters who were killed by enemy fire, died from disease, or drowned during the war.
Katherine Maude Mary Macdonald is buried in Étaples Military Cemetery, in France.
