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Dorothy Donnelly and Camp Hill Veterans Hospital

Camp Hill Veterans Hospital: Six-year-old Dorothy Donnelly stood outside Camp Hill Veterans Hospital, clutching a bouquet of long-stemmed roses, according to The Chronicle Herald. Inside the hospital, the girls father struggled to breathe. His lungs had been ravaged by poison gas in the First World War, and he suffered from tuberculosis and other respiratory problems and It was a rainy, wind-swept day in November 1951. A nurse, dressed in a crisp white uniform, stood beside her holding an umbrella. Together they waited for the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.