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Mary Catherine MacIntosh was born June 15, 1885 in Lower South River, Antigonish County. She was the daughter of Duncan MacIntosh and Maggie Chisholm. Her brothers Alexander MacIntosh and Anthony MacIntosh also served in the First World War. MacIntosh enlisted as a nursing sister for the Canadian Army Medical Corps in Montréal, Québec on May 1, 1919. Prior to enlistment she worked as a trained nurse.
Over the course of the war, MacIntosh served in England, Salonika, Greece and France. MacIntosh first served in England with the Canadian Army Medical Corps at the Duchess of Connaught’s Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Taplow from June 9, 1916 to August 1916. She then served overseas in mainland Europe with the No. 5 Canadian Contingent General Hospital in Salonika from August 14, 1916 to March 24, 1917. On March 24, 1917 she was admitted as a patient for dysentery in this hospital. MacIntosh was then sent as a patient to the HMHS Llandovery Castle Hospital Ship on May 7, 1917 which was stationed in Malta on May 10, 1917. She was then sent to England and arrived May 27, 1917 where she was admitted to Vincent Square Empire Hospital in London and was discharged May 31, 1917. MacIntosh was subsequently granted 6 weeks leave by the Medical Board from May 30, 1917 to July 12 1917 as she was declared unfit for any service for 6 weeks. When she recovered, MacIntosh served in England with the No. 4 Canadian General Hospital in Basingstoke, Hampshire starting on July 14, 1917. She later served with Canadian Contingent Hospital at Monks Horton, Kent starting on August 8, 1917. MacIntosh returned to mainland Europe in December of 1917 and served in France with the No. 6 Canadian Stationary Hospital and later the No. 3 Canadian Contingent Hospital from December 1917 to May 1919. MacIntosh was discharged due to demobilization July 17, 1919 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Following the war, MacIntosh married Maurice Edward Lynch May 4, 1920 at St-Paul Church in Granby, La Haute-Yamaska, Québec. By 1920 they were living in Ottawa, Ontario where they had two sons and two daughters. MacIntosh died August 25, 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario. She is buried with her husband in Notre Dame Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario.
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