Minnie Follette - A Supreme Sacrifice

I’m thinking this month of the young nurses who were on the HMHS Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship serving during World War 1.  It was torpedoes in 1918 by the German navy U-86 which then surfaced and machine-gunned the survivors in the water in hopes of destroying evidence of this act against international law.  Of the 234 doctors, nurses and crew, one was Minnie Follette of Port Greville, Cumberland County.  Minnie enlisted in the Army Corps in 1911 and served in Quebec until she was sent overseas in 1914.  She was hospitalized for exhaustion and bronchitis in 1917 and then returned being posted to the HMS Letita in 1917 and later to the Llandovery Castle.  She was 33 years old when she drowned.
Canadians considered the event one of the war's worst atrocities and the event was presented at the Leipzig trials.