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Nurse Anne Wilhelmina Ahern
Voluntary Aid Detachment
from:Co. Meath, Ireland
Anne Wilhelmina Ahern was born in 1890 in Dublin and lived in Co. Meath in Ireland. She served as a nurse at Norfolk War Hospital around 1915-1917. On a postcard of herself sent to her family, she wrote: "Rather a sad looking dog, but I was really trying to look serious as there one of the nurses grinning in front. Don't worry about the Zeppelins. There's no danger. With Love Annie" later she has written "At Norfolk War Hospital" and "Me at 26"
She married a Canadian soldier from the Princess Pat Division named Verne Howard Getty in Norwich in August 1916. They had two sons while in England and then left for Canada in 1919.

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