Lest We Forget
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them"
Helen Jean (Coburn) Sheppard (1913-1975)
Lieut. Helen Jean (Coburn) Sheppard
Our Mum did speak much about her war service as a nursing sister in Italy.
Perhaps like many who were there she did not want to relive those days or perhaps
sensing this we just didn't ask the right questions. Much of what follows has been
pieced together from her service records, some letters to her sister Margaret and
the accounts of others who served with her.
PARTICULARS OF SERVICE CANADIAN ARMY (ACTIVE)
Lieutenant (N/S) Helen Jean COBURN
Length of Service: January 15, 1941 to July 3, 1945.
Postings in Canada
- Sussex Military Hospital, Sussex, N.B. January 15, 1941
- Saint James Street Military Hospital, Sussex, N.B. March 29, 1942.
- Sussex Military Hospital June 25, 1942.
- #18 General Hospital, Cobourg, Ont. February 15, 1943.
Postings in Britain and Central Mediterranean Area
- Bramshott General Hospital June 29, 1943
- Number 1 Canadian General Hospital October 14, 1943
- Number 14 Canadian General Hospital February 18, 1944
- Attached to Number 15 Canadian General Hospital from July 10, 1944 to December 14, 1944.
- Number 2 Canadian Neuro Psychiatric Wing December 15, 1944.
- Number 1 Canadian General Reinforcement Unit, attached to Basingstoke
- Neurological and Plastic Surgery Hospital from April 2, 1945 to May 3, 1945
- Number 1 Canadian Repatriation Depot May 4, 1945.
