medical dress apron
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19680079-001
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
1940-1943 North African Campaign - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made 1914-1918
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1914/01/01
- Latest 1918/12/31
- Materials Cotton
- Branch Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Related activity Nursing sister
- Caption Nursing Sister Alma Florence Finnie
- Additional Information Nursing Sister Alma Florence Finnie of Balieboro, Ontario wore this uniform while serving in a hospital in France. Its blue colour earned nurses the nickname of "bluebirds".