Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Donovan, Oscar Glennie
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1883-1945
History
Oscar Glennie Donovan was a 1906 graduate of Dalhousie Medical College. Born in Hantsford, Nova Scotia, on 22 May 1883 to John and Sarah Jane Donovan, he was raised in Truro and educated at Colchester County Academy. After a one-year residency at Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, he opened a medical practice in New Germany, Lunenberg County. In 1908 he married Lela Agnes Hamm of Mahone Bay, a graduate of the School of Nursing at Victoria General Hospital. Donovan served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) in 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1916 in Canada, England and France. In 1915 he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1917 he attested with the CAMC as a Captain with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served overseas until March 1920. During World War Two he served as the Commanding Officer for the 22nd Reserve Field Ambulance. He twice received the Croix de Guerre. He died at his home in Halifax on January 25, 1945.