![]() ![]() Their home addresses and those of Nina Louise Seymour, who died in Toule, France, and Alice A. Nettie Grace McBride and Edith Barnett are buried in Tumen and Tombsk Siberia, and Edith Winchester in Erivan, Armenia. Hall seated in chair, from Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, c/o Harvard University 19, 1919, as they were about to set sail for home, and two other sisters, Viola and Ruth Lundholm of Petaluma, Calif., both army nurses, who died within six days of each other in October 1917, in different hospitals in France, are among the outstanding names.ġ2 nurses of Base Hosp no. Gervais church, in Paris the Cromwell sisters, Dorothea and Gladys of New York, who came to a tragic end at sea Jan. Martin, killed in a Paris hospital by a bomb from a German air raider March 1918, and Ruth Landon, by a shell in St. canteener killed by a German shell at Chalons-sur-Marne, MaWinona C. Delano, beloved head of the Red Cross nursing service, who died at Savenay, ApMarion Crandell, Y.M.C.A. Courtenay, originator of the memorial movement. “There is a handsome bronze tablet in the army and navy building in Washington, memorializing the mules and horses who died in the war, but nowhere in Washington is there found a record of the women who died–except army nurses–until we compiled it,” declared Miss Helen C. Plans for a perpetual testimonial to the former service women of the American Expeditionary Forces were announced in connection with the list, which will be presented at the league’s convention here in June, next year, Chicago headquarters of the league said in the announcement. Most of them rest under French soil, some in far-off Siberia, Armenia, China and Manila, and others in England.”. 10 (AP)–One hundred and sixty-one names of “gold star women”–American girls who gave their lives in the World war–are found on the list made public today by the Women’s Overseas Service league, compiled as a feature to Armistice day. MEMORIAL LIST SHOWS 161 “GOLD STAR WOMEN” GAVE LIVES IN WORLD WAR. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D.C. Sheet Music Cover: I never believed in angels until I met you girl of the cross 1918 monographic. It is a partial list based on the information at hand by the author of the newspaper article. ![]() The following newspaper article, in the Asbury Park Evening Press of Friday, November 10, 1922, mentions by name those nurses who died during World War I. To honor nurses everywhere, one must start with those who lost their lives practicing their profession. National Nurses Week is celebrated this year from May 6-12 2017. ![]() According to a newspaper article in a Lebanon PA edition of January 1919, over 200 WWI nurses died from influenza, that they contracted from caring for their soldier patients. Their sacrifice cannot be stressed enough, and yet they received little or no recognition. They put themselves in the direct line of both danger from the bombs and poison gas, but also cared for highly contagious military patients. They did not hold rank, nor did they receive any military benefits when the war ended. Many of the American nurses of World War I worked under the auspices of the American Red Cross, while still others were considered members of the U.S. Close and dear first cousins also followed that selfless profession. My father’s sister, Anna (Webster) Watkins was a nurse, as was my sister, Kathi Webster. My 2nd great-grandfather Aaron Webster was a nurse during America’s Civil War. “Hold up your end!” War fund week poster 1917, W.B. With millions of names, it's an invaluable tool for finding ancestors.Lithograph Poster.
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