Evangeline Lydia Emsley

[2][3] Emsley was appointed Superintendent of Nurses at Kingston General Hospital in Ontario in 1912.

[5] In England, she worked as night supervisor at the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Taplow.

[2] In King George V's 1919 Birthday Honours, she was awarded a Royal Red Cross, second class, for her service during the war.

[6] After she returned to Canada in 1919, she resumed a civilian nursing career, working for the health department in Oshawa in 1929.

[7] In 1931, Emsley married Frederick James Donevan (1880-1948), a widowed doctor who had also served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps in France and England.