PURSE OF GOLD PRESENTED TO MISS AILEEN CREAGHAN

Newcastle Lady Who Has Been Accepted for Red Cross Work Overseas

Newcastle, March 30, 1916 – Miss Aileen Creaghan, daughter of J.D. Creaghan and sister of Lts. Gerald Creaghan with the British Flying Corps, and Cyril Creaghan with the engineers in France, and sister-in-law of Capt. J.K. Hazen, has been accepted for overseas service as a Red Cross nurse and leaves for Montreal tonight to sail for Europe. Yesterday afternoon she was the guest of honour at a five o’clock tea at the residence of Miss Bessie Crocker, secretary of the Red Cross Society. About 50 ladies were present. Mrs. Josephine Sargeant and Mrs. W.J. Bate poured tea and Misses Jean Robinson, Louise Manny, Florence Ferguson, Connie Armstrong and Edith Burchill assisted in serving. Miss Creaghan was presented with a purse of gold and the following address:

Newcastle, N.B.,

March 29, 1916.

To our Dear Friend and Co-worker,

After having been associated with us in the Red Cross work for the past eighteen months, you have had the ambition of your life gratified – you have been accepted by the Canadian Government as a Red Cross nurse for service at the front.

You are leaving home and friends tomorrow, and on this the eve of your departure, we have assembled to wish you Godspeed, and to ask you to accept as a slight token of our esteem this gift of gold and with it to obtain something which may be serviceable and at the same time a memento of our associations.

Your work at the front will call for those womanly qualities of sympathy and patience with which you are so richly endowed, and these, when added to your skill as a nursing sister, will enable you to well fulfill your duties as a British Red Cross nurse.

Farewell, dear sister, and may the good hand of our God and Father be with you at all times and in all places, and may He bring you safely home again.

Signed on behalf of the Newcastle Branch of the Canadian Red Cross.

JOSEPHINE SARGEANT

President Society

On behalf of the Surgical Committee, Mrs. Osborne Nicholson, convenor, presented Miss Creaghan with an address and a fountain pen.

Miss Creaghan’s friends admire her courage and devotion and wish her every success and a happy return.