Benjamin, Vera Louise. Christie, Freda Hope. Fraser, Elda Jean. Fvfe, Hannah G. Harrison, Jena Augusta. Hill, Eliza Victoria. Jones, Helen. Kelley, Margaret Neill. Mosher, Lydia T. MacDonald, Anna Bula. McKenzie, Jean Annie. McLeod, Marion. Perry, H. H. Purcell, Mary Louise. CHAPTER XXVII. _THE CANADIAN ARMY DENTAL CORPS._ That Dental Services are a necessity in the army is one of the many lessons taught us by the War and it has been amply proved that the Canadian Army Dental Corps was responsible for placing at least 10 per cent of the Canadian and British troops at the Front who, but for the excellent dental services provided, would not have been there. [Illustration: LIEUT.-COL. B. L. NEILLY.] Members of the dental profession in Nova Scotia were among the first to offer their services, and in August, 1914, three of them, Drs. B. L. Neilly, F. W. Bruce Kelly and H. L. Mitchener, were on duty at Valcartier Camp. Drs. Neilly and Kelly proceeded Overseas and were the first dental surgeons at the Front. So far as can be learned these were the only dental surgeons with the Canadian troops at that date, Captain Bentley of Ontario reporting early in September. For eight years previous to the War a Committee of the Canadian Dental Association on “Dental Services in the Army” repeatedly approached the Federal Government with regard to a definite Army Dental Association to be administered by the Medical Services or otherwise, but were finally informed that the organization then existing, which consisted of twenty-six Dental Officers attached to the Army Medical Corps as Honorary Captains and Lieutenants, was quite satisfactory. On the outbreak of the War members of the profession throughout Canada, realizing the necessity of dental services for recruits, voluntarily provided dental treatment for thousands of men who, otherwise, could not have been accepted. The attention of the Minister of Militia, Sir Sam Hughes, was directed to the importance and value of this work by Generals Fotheringham, Lessard, Loggie and others as well as by a sub-committee of civilian dentists from Toronto, who proceeded to Ottawa early in 1915 under the direction of Dr. George Kerr Thomson of Halifax, Chairman of the Canadian Dental Association’s Committee on “Dental Services in the Army,” with the result that the Minister immediately issued orders for a Dental organization, similar to that of the Medical, but entirely separate.