Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Nursing Sister
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division:
7 General Hospital
Birth:
May 25, 1879
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 5, 1915
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
August 20, 1917
Brighton, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
ZIY. 95.
Additional information
Daughter of John Sparks and Jane Bradley of Britannia Heights.
Digital gallery of Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
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Photo of Letitia Sparks
Ettia Sparks -Canadian Army Medical Corps - 1917 -
Photo of Letitia Sparks
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Newspaper clipping
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Biography
Nursing Sister Letitia 'Etta' Sparks was profiled in "Framing identity: social practices of photography in Canada (1880-1920)" by S.M. Close, E. de Groot, Faculty Faculty of Humanities, 2005. -
Group Photo
Unknown Photographer, Heavenly Twins, (Nursing Sister Etta Sparks on the right) From the Etta Sparks Album, gelatin silver print, PA 122435 The Etta Sparks Collection, photos related to her experiences as a nursing sister in the First World War, was donated to National Archives in 1979. Sparks was stationed at No. 5 Canadian General Hospital in Memphis, Egypt during WWI. -
Photo of Letitia Sparks
Photographer unknown, Queen of Sheba, From the Etta Sparks Album, gelatin silver print, PA 122445 The Etta Sparks Collection, photos related to her experiences as a nursing sister in the First World War, was donated to National Archives in 1979. Sparks was stationed at No. 5 Canadian General Hospital in Memphis, Egypt during WWI. -
Cairo
Photographer unknown, A Familiar Scene Cairo, From the Etta Sparks Album, gelatin silver print, PA 122445 The Etta Sparks Collection, photos related to her experiences as a nursing sister in the First World War, was donated to National Archives in 1979. Sparks was stationed at No. 5 Canadian General Hospital in Memphis, Egypt during WWI. -
Church
Letitia Sparks and her parents were parisioners of Britannia Heights Methodist Church c 1920, now Britannia United Church, Pinecrest Road, Ottawa -
Group Photo
Photographer unknown, Group at Pyramids, From the Etta Sparks Album, gelatin silver print, PA 122444 The Etta Sparks Collection, photos related to her experiences as a nursing sister in the First World War, was donated to National Archives in 1979. Sparks was stationed at No. 5 Canadian General Hospital in Memphis, Egypt during WWI. -
Biography
A tribute to some women and men who served in armed conflicts - Nursing Sister Letitia “Etta” Sparks
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Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
Digital gallery of
Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
Digital gallery of
Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
Digital gallery of
Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
Digital gallery of
Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
Digital gallery of
Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
Digital gallery of
Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
Digital gallery of
Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
Digital gallery of
Nursing Sister Letitia Sparks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 330 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRIGHTON CITY CEMETERY (BEAR ROAD) Sussex, United Kingdom
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