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January 11, 1943
Miss Catherine L. White
First General Medical Laboratories
s.o.s; APO 505
New York, New York
My dear Miss White:
With the transfer of the American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital
for Communicable Diseases to the United States Army, this service of
Red Cross nurses to the English people has been brought to a con-
clusion. Twenty nurses have returned to this country; 31 have
joined the armed forces in England, and 11 are engaged in other
allied war work in England or Ireland.
It has been our hope to hold a ceremony in honor of the members of
the Unit in Washington at this time but it has been necessary for
us to relinquish this idea because of the extra demands which such
a ceremony would place upon transportation and hotel accommodations.
Although our plans for a ceremony cannot be realized, it is fitting
that we should recall at this time that this was the first unit of
Red Cross workers to brave the dangers of crossing the sea in that
very critical period before our country went to war.
Not one American nurse lost her life by direct action of the enemy
in the First World War, but in this conflict, six months before we
ourselves became involved, five of our group of Red Cross nurses
with their housemother did so acrifice their lives. To see their
names written out gives me as an American nurse a great sense of
pride.
Mrs. Ruth Breckinridge, housemother, Winston-Salem, North
$1.144
Carolina
Phyllis Lou Evans
Everett, Massachusetts
Dorothes Louise Koehn
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Maxine c. Loomis
Putney, Vermont
Dorothy c. Morse
Boston, Massachusetts
Nancie M. Pett
Detroit, Michigan
Their courage and resolution was as great, but no gréater than that
and the loneliness and sorrow that has come into the lives
of of each
all the other members of the Unit, but their sacrifice was grester,
of their families cannot be forgotten by any of us.
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