Members of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) aboard H.M.C.S. SUDBURY celebrating the first anniversary of the formation of the W.R.C.N.S.. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 19 August 1943.
1914 Margaret MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band and becomes the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major.
