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January 11, 1943
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Miss Ruth MS Martin
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0/0 American Red Cross
12 Grocvenor Square
London 1, England
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My dear iss Martin:
bith the transfer of the American Red Cross-Harverd Field Hospital
for Communicable Diseases to the United States Arny, this service of
Red Cross nurses to the English people has been brought to a con-
clucion. Twenty nurses lanve returned to this country; 31 have
joined the armed forces in England, and 11 are engaged in other
allied war jork in England or Ireland.
It has been our hope to hold a coremony in horior of the members of
the Unit in Washington-at this time but it has been neceasary for
us to rolinquish this idea because of the extra demando whish such
a ceremony vould place upon tranéportation and 'hotel accommodations.
nlthough our plans for a ceremony cennot be realized, it is fitting
that we should recall at t is ti e that this was the first unit of
led Caross workers to Qrave the dangers of crossing the sea in that
very critical period before our country to war.
Not one American nurse lost her life by direct action of the enomy
in the First World War, but in this conflict, six months before ve
ourselves beçome involved, five of our group of Red Cross nurses
with their housemother did so sacrifice thoir lives. To see their
names written out gives no as an American nurse a great sense of
pride.
Mrs. luth Breckinridge, inston-Salem, North
Carolina
Phyllis Lou Evins
Everett, Massachusetts
Dorothea Louise Koehn
isconsin
Maidine Loonie
Putney, Versont
Dorothy Norse
Bosto. Cassachusetts
Nancio de Pott
Detroit, Lichi on
Thei courage and resolution was as great, but no greator thin that
of all the other membors of the Unit, but thoi sherifice was groater,
and the loneliness and sorro. that has come into the lives of each
of their fomilies cannot be l'orgotten by any of us.
5 17
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