Could be her, some other info Obituary: MISS ISABEL C. McCAW
Miss Isabel Catherine McCaw, who died on July 3 at age 87 in Cornwall, Ontario was for many years in
her younger days a reporter for the Montreal Star. Some of her outstanding articles following World War
I dealt with the political and military situation in the Balkans, some of which she had witnessed at first
hand.
As an ambulance driver with the Scottish Women's Hospitals' Motor Ambulance Column, attached to the
Serbian First Army, she had personal experience of that small army's amazing capture of enemy
strongholds on 7,000 foot highmountain ridges and "the subsequent pursuit which swept Bulgars,
Austrians and Germans out of their beloved Serbia like chaff before the wind."
She also served in Greece and Macedonia and earned the ribbons of the Serbian gold "za Roznu sluzbu",
First Class, which was equivalent to the British D.S.O., the Serbian Great War Active Service Medal, the
Scottish Women's Hospitals' Medal, the General Service Medal and the Victory Medal. She was twice
mentioned in despatches.
Miss McCaw, a graduate of McGill University, was the daughter of William McCaw, a noted Montreal
insurance man and sportsman, and his first wife, Catherine Blacklock. As a descendant of Captain Ronald
Macdonell (Leek), King's Royal Regiment of New York, who settled in St. Andrew's West, Ontario in
1784, she became a member of The United Empire Loyalists' Association and was a member of the Sir
John Johnson Centennial Branch. She is survived by her step-sister, Miss Gladys W. McCaw of Montreal
and a nephew, William H. Calkins of Wilmington, Delaware.
Step sisiter Gladys does fit.
