Gladys Wake,Victoria Girl, Victim of Recent Bombing Raid by Germans, wrote People not to worry.
The fine heroism, which the war discovers, is again exemplified in the courageous spirit shown by Nursing Sister, Gladys Wake, the Victoria girl who, a few days ago, succumbed to injuries inflicted by the Germans when they bombed a British hospital.

“Darling people- I am afraid before you get this letter you will have received the official announcement that I have been hurt by the air raid”, she writes to her mother and friends in England, dictating the letter to the Patre in the hospital where she was tended before she died.“Don’t worry, because I am hopeful for the best.Our Padre is very kind, and he will send this to you. I am shaken a good deal, but don’t worry. With fond love,  Bab.”

This was all. The next they heard was that she had joined the many fallen “on the other side.”
This much of the brave girl’s  last words it is 

possible to learn from a letter which her mother has written to a very old friend in Victoria.

“I want to be the first to tell you of our grievous loss. Our little soldier, Bab, has laid down her life for her fellow men. You will have seen that the Germans made a raid on the hospitals in France on Whitsunday, and our darling, with four other sisters, two doctors, and worse, still 57 wounded men, were killed. I had a lovely letter from the Padre. The raid was on Whitsunday, and three weeks to the day since she left England for overseas, and, the most agonizing thought of it all, she lingered until Tuesday! But he says she rested calmly and trusted fully in God’s hands, and had wished him to be near her at intervals, and was so patient and brave. She dictated a few words.”

This is the mother’s letter.The “dictated words” are given in the preceding paragraph.

  Mrs. Wake states, in her letter, that she and her daughter started off for France, having been sent for, but when they reached London, they were met by the news that all was over, and returned home the next day.

Nursing Sister Wake belonged to an old Victoria family, her grandfather having come here in the early days, and her father having held an office at the dockyard at  Esquimalt for several years. She trained at the Royal Jubilee Hospital, graduating in 1912. Shortly before the war, the family moved to England. For a time she was nursing in  Shorncliffe, subsequently being sent out to Gajonica.

It was about last September that that she returned to England resuming nursing at Shorncliffe for several months. She finally succeeded in getting her wish to go to France, having been accepted to enter one of the casualty clearing stations. She had reached one of the base hospitals, and was there awaiting orders to go up nearer the firing line, when the Germans bombed the place. This was on Whitsunday, May 18, and she died of her injuries two days afterward.