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Nursing Sister Agnes Louise Warner
City: 200 Prince William St #170, Saint John, NB
Near the main entrance to the Dennis Knibb Auditorium in the Saint John High School is a plaque dedicated to Nursing Sister Agnes Louise Warner. A native of Saint John, she saw service in the First World War in France from 1914 to the end of the war, in support of the French Army, first with the Red Cross and then the French Flag Nursing Corps. She was the recipient of the Medaille d’Honneur in Bronze, the Medaille des Epidemies – L’Insigne Special en Or, and the Croix de Guerre. She died on 23 April 1923 in Saint John and is buried in Fernhill Cemetery. For more information on this amazing women, including a collection of her letters, see NBMHP Volume 15 Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War by Shawn M. Quinn
