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Jenuary 11, 1943
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Miss Catherine J. Wilson
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26 Hillborn Avenue
Swarthmore
Pennsylvania
My dear Miss Wilson:
With the transfer of the American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital
for Communicable Diseases to the United States Army, this service of
Red Crosa nurses to the inglish people has been brought to a con-
clusion. Twenty nurses have returned to this country; 31 have joined
the arned 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 our-
selves became involved, five of our group of Red Cross nurses with their
housemother did so sacrifice 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
Carolina
Phyllis Lou Evans
Everett, Massachusetts
Dorothea 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 greater then that of
all the other members of the Unit, but their sacrifice was greater, and
the loneliness and sorrow that has come into the lives of each of their
families cannot be forgotten by any of us.
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