1/3/1901: Described by Dr Pern as 'invaluable'

'Sister Kennedy has done splendid work in her domain battling against the incessant difficulties. She is the daughter of a clergyman close to Salcombe, and has been out here nursing sixteen months, but she is not a War Office nurse. So she has worked in this camp since its formation for the 5/- a day and rations of a civilian - without the field allowance or colonial allowance of an Army nurse. When I tell you we have had some 70 cases of typhoid besides an epidemic of measles, pneumonia, tonsilitis and other cases you will realize what the strain on her has been. In addition, she has had the worry of nothing ready to her hand - the very hospitals only built by degrees through it all. And to crown the work, she has had the task of training Boer girls to work under her. Until lately she has had to get meals how and when she can. She is very small and delicate but full of pluck.' [van Reenen, Hobhouse Letters. p. 77]