Mabel Clint
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Mabel Clint | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 21, 1874 |
| Died | March 17, 1939 (aged 64) Montreal, Quebec |
| Allegiance | Canada |
| Branch | Canadian Expeditionary Force |
| Service years | 1914–1916 1917–1919 |
| Rank | Sister |
| Unit | Canadian Army Medical Corps |
| Conflicts | First World War |
| Awards | Associate Royal Red Cross |
Mabel Brown Clint, ARRC (June 21, 1874 – March 17, 1939) was a Canadian nurse and author. She served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France, Belgium, and Greece during the First World War. Born in Quebec, she worked as a nurse and volunteered for duty when war was declared in 1914. She embarked for the United Kingdom with the first set of troops and was among the first 100 nurses to serve near the Western Front in France. She published her memoir, Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister, in 1934.
Clint was born in Quebec City, Quebec, in 1874. Her father, William Clint, was an Englishman working as an insurance agent. Her mother, Caroline Brown, was Scottish. She had two sisters, Olive and Effie.[1]
In her early twenties, Clint worked as a writer. Using the pen name Harold Saxon, she published two non-fiction books, Under the king's bastion; a romance of Quebec, comprising many true and interesting historical sketches and descriptions of the customs and habits of the people of Quebec, ancient and modern (1902), and Imperial Anniversary Book (1909).[2][3]
