service dress veil
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19830523-002
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made --
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, headwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Inscription H-89; MAY
- Materials Silkworm silk
- Service Component Royal Canadian Navy
- Measurements Length 89.0 cm, Width 89.0 cm
- Related activity Nursing sister
- Caption Nurse's Uniform, Sub-Lieutenant Georgia Hayes
- Additional Information This dress uniform, with its distinctive nurse's veil, belonged to Royal Canadian Navy Nursing Sister Georgia Hayes. Hayes joined the navy in the spring of 1943, and served at Halifax, Nova Scotia, at HMCS Cornwallis, near Deep Brook, Nova Scotia, and at Esquimalt, British Columbia. The Royal Canadian Navy had no medical service of its own when war began in 1939, and had to build one from scratch. Established in late 1941, the Nursing Service Branch eventually recruited almost 350 personnel, who served in naval bases in Canada and Newfoundland, as well as in HMCS Niobe, the Canadian shore establishment in Scotland.