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In memory of:

Lieutenant (Nursing Sister) Ruth Louise Ashley

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Military service

Age: 27
Rank: Lieutenant (Nursing Sister)
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division: 8 General Hospital.
Birth: November 8, 1915 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: December 8, 1941 Regina, Saskatchewan
Death: June 6, 1943 England

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 40. E. 5.
Additional information

Daughter of Wyndham Winkler Ashley and Dora Mary Ashley, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

As a war casualty from Saskatchewan, Lieutenant (Nursing Sister) Ruth Louise Ashley has been honoured by having Ashley Peninsula named after her. The location of Ashley Peninsula is 58.1167 degrees N / 103.55 degrees W.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 132 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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Women and War

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Women in the Canadian Military

 

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