[2] After the training, Pope became the superintendent of the Columbia Hospital for Women, at Washington D.C., where she opened a school for nurses.

After, Pope and another sister proceeded north to Kroonstad where, despite shortages in food and medical supplies, they took charge of a military hospital and successfully cared for 230 sufferers of enteric fever.

On September 21, 1901,[2] Pope, along with two other nurses, Deborah Hurcomb and Sarah Forbes, received medals for their war service from the Duke of York, later King George V, during his tour to the Outposts of the British Empire.

[citation needed] In 1917, aged 55, Pope, although in poor health went to work near Ypres and served for the remainder of the First World War until 1918.

Pope is one of fourteen figures from Canada's military history commemorated at the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa.