Phoebe Marion Fitz

From Phoebe Marion Wright V.A.D. | British Red Cross

• Phoebe Marion Wright
• 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford
• Rank at engagement: Canteen Worker
• Date of engagement: Saturday, 18 August 1917
• Age when engaged: 27 [born about 1890]
• Additional information: Saturday, 18 August 1917 to present. No 7 Canadian General Rec. Hut France
• Department: J.W. V.A.D.
• Commission: Imperial Canadian

From Somewhere in France: The WWI letters of Lt. Parr Hooper 2. Oxford: October 3–November 2, 1917

There were four Wright daughters. The oldest, Phoebe Marion Wright, was probably the one Parr refers to as “manager of a hospital in France.”

From Somewhere in France: WWI Letter of Lt. Parr Hooper. Endnotes.

96 Lady Osler, writing to Harvey Cushing on Sunday, 19 August 1917, mentions that Phoebe was a V.A.D. in a Canadian hospital near Cushing; see abstract of the letter at McGill University Library, William Osler Letter Index. Cushing, in a journal entry for Sunday, 11 November 1917, when he was in Boulogne indicates that Phoebe is there working in the office of Col. [Harry Woodburne] Blaylock (deputy commissioner of the Canadian Red Cross); see Cushing, From a Surgeon’s Journal, page 255.

745 Phoebe Wright’s date of birth is provided by Ancestry.com, 1901 Census of Canada, record for Febbe [sic] Wright. Her date of death is taken from Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935–Current, record for Phoebe Fitz.

From FreeBMD - Registration of marriage of Phoebe M. Wright in 1918 and FreeBMD - Registration of marriage of Reginald Fitz in 1918

• April to June 1918: Registration of marriage of Reginald Fitz and Wright; in Oxford (Volume 3a, Page 1967)
• April to June 1918: Registration of marriage of Phoebe M. Wright and Fitz; in Oxford (Volume 3a, Page 1967)

From Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project, p130

Phoebe Marion Fitz (Maiden surname: Wright) born 1890 - Died Sunday, 31 December 1972 (cremated)