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Mary Elizabeth Edmunds was the daughter of [[Edmunds-222|George Frederick Edmunds] and Elizabeth Wilkinson. Mary was born August 13, 1906 in Teesdale, Middleton, UK. Her mother died when she was nine-years-old, and her father remarried [twice?]. She grew up in a coal-mining family in Northumberland.
At the age of 20, she married Andrew Smail and was soon pregnant with their first child, John. After John’s birth, the decision was made by the couple to break away from the coal-mining life and try their luck in the New World. In April 1928, the couple and their young son embarked on the Canadian Pacific Steamer - Montcalm, leaving Liverpool.
She was big on the St John’s Ambulance Brigade as a volunteer. She then got her Industrial First Aid certificate and went to work for Boeing at Sea Island when they were building the B29s. The most common accident was someone working on the wing getting a drill through the wing up into his palm. [1]
St John’s Ambulance Brigade/Industrial First Aid
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