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Hospital Ship Taking Local Nurse Back To Hong KongOn her way back to Hong Kong, where for 14 months she was interned n Stanley internment camp, is Lieut. Nursiag Sister Ann May Waters, of Winnipeg. This time- she goes to help bring from the prison camps some of her comrades with whom she landed in Hong Kong. Nov. 16, 1941.She u one of the staff of nurses who will servo aboard '.he hospital ship Letitia, which has been especially equipped to bring Canadian service personnel home from Japanese prisons.The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Waters. 256 Wellington crescent. she was 3 member of the staff of the British military hos-Ipital at Hone Kone and for eight months following the capture o' Hone Kong by the Japanese, she with the other members af ihc medical and nursing staff, carried lt;n. having ah patient* on many occasions men of Winnipeg's owe Grenadiers, who were brought in for treatment. On Aug. 10. 1942. the hospital was taken over and the staff of nurses moved to Stanley camp.Nursing Sister Waters was repatriated. and arrived home Dec. 6. 1943. En route she regained 10 of ihe 20 pounds she lost in the prison camp. Now she returns fit and ready to serve the fellow Canadians she left behind. She carries with her letters, many ofI them from families to their of the Grenadier*. _ILIE XT. C S. ANNA MAY WATERSis returning to Hong Kong, aboard the Ixtilia to care for Grenadier repatriates with whom she snared espture. She v/as interned in a civilian camp and returned to Canada In 1943.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Sep 05, 1945
Page 6
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