Martha Chagnon Vadenais served as a member of the nursing staff of Military Hospital No. 17 in France. She received a medal for her devotion to duty in the prevention of epidemic diseases and was mentioned twice in despatches.

“Vadenais plans to return to private practice, but she stated yesterday that the pathos and seriousness of the cases of mutilated boys of Canada…has touched her heart and that she must continue the work among soldiers as long as she is needed,” read an article in the Boston Post on January 12, 1920.

Vadenais graduated from the School of Nursing of the Rhode Island Hospital in 1913 and later took a course in public health at McGill University.

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