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Soldier Information Cards - World War Two
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Hannay, Deborah
(clipping] 19 July 1944
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Serving Overseas
Capt. Deborah Hannay, the fo rmer Dr. Glaister who practiced with Dr. Harry Lackner in Kitchener, is
a medical officer on the staff of No. 20 Canadian General Hospital in England. Her patient in the
above photo from overseas is Sgt. J.T. Morrison or Toronto
K-W Woman Army Doctor Anxious to Go to France
With A Canadian General Hospital in England, July 19 (CP)
Canada may send some of the first F.M.O.'s-women army doctors-across to serve in Normandy.
With a Canadian General Hospital that has already done a considerable amount of moving about England
since its arrival in May are three Canadian women medical officers, as well as a bacteriologist. All four want
to go overseas.
Meanwhile, in this large unit, they are privileged women. When the nursing sisters eat in their own mess,
the four who wear khaki instead of blue use the spacious medical officers' mess and have other rights
sacred previously only to men of the medical corp.
"The fact that the army has accepted women doctors on equal terms should be a big help to the future of
women in the medical profession," Major Violet Rae commented as she bent over a microscope in the
hospital's pathology laboratory.
Major Rae, who can claim Hamilton, Toronto and Calgary as past homes, is in charge of the laborary
and under her the bio-chemical testing is carried out, blood tests are made as well as tissue
examinations and the occasional post-mortem.
"A lab in a military hospital is never dull," said the kindly, attractive woman doctor.
"We don't see many patients, but we have a wide variety of work."
Major Rae majored in pathology at the University of Toronto after she completeted her medical training
at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Later, she worked in the lab. at the Mountain Sanitorium,
Hamilton.
Working with the major was Lieut. Jean Arnot who was before her marriage to Capt. Fred Arnot
of the dental corps, was Jean Bonnell of Victoria. Being one of the first women bacteriologists from Canada
to served overseas gave Mrs. Arnot a chance to see her husband for the first time in more than a year.
Mrs. Arnot was getting ready to move with her hospital unit but she would be followed in the lab by Lieut. Mary
Gibson of Vancouver, who also attended U.B.C. at the same time.
The fact that Capt. Deborah Hannay of Kitchener was skilled in internal medicine gave her a chance to
come to England to carry on her job and see her husband, Capt. John Hannay, after a long separation.
She is on the general medical staff. She received her degree at the University of Toronto and
later did postgraduate work in England.
Capt. Shirley Fleming of Toronto is the anaesthetist here and spends most of her time in the operating
rooms. She is also a graduate of the University of Toronto.
[clipping] 4 Oct 1946
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Wellesley Doctor Returns Home From Overseas
Home on a well-earned furlough, following two years of service with the armed forces overseas, is
Capt. Deborah Glaister Hannay, of Wellesley, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Glaister.
Prior to her enlistment in October, 1942, Capt. Hannay practised medicine with her father in Wellesley
and was, for two years, associated with Dr. H.M. Lackner in Kitchener.
From Ottawa, where she was medical officer to the Canadian Women's Army Corps, the doctor was sent to
Toronto to serve at Chorley Park Miliary Hospital.
In May, 1944, she left for England, where she worked with the No. 20 Canadian General Hospital and in
December of the same year went to Belgium.
The following May, Capt. Hannay worked with No. 1 Canadian General Hospital at Nijmegen, Holland.
Her duties at both hospitals consisted chiefly of medical work in the wards, caring for Allied troops.
At present she is at her home in Wellesley and as she has not yet been discharged from the army,
Capt. Hannay is uncertain about her plans for the future.
[note] 30 Apr 1945
WOMEN DOCTORS ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Not far behind the front lines the hospitals of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps are set up and
for the first time in medical history of warfare women doctors are on the staff of medical units serving
in active theaters of war.
On the left is seen Capt. Deborah Hannay, of Wellesley, Ont., a medical officer with the troops in
Belgium. (Seated). A graduate of the University of Toronto, she practised with her father, Dr. William
Glaister in Wellesley, later going into partnership with Dr. Harry Lackner in Kitchener, Ont.
Her husband is also everseas. He is a Captain of artillery.