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January 11, 1943
Miss Mary L. Carpenter
lst General Medical Laboratories
s.o.S; A.P.0; 505
New York, New York
My dear Miss Carpenter:
With the transfer of the Anerican 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 01 Red Cross nurses
with their housenother did so sacrifice their lives. To see their
names written out gives ne as an American nurse a great sense of
pride.
Mrs. Buth Breckinridge, housenother, Winston-Salen, North Carolina
Phyllis Lou Evans
Everett, Massachusetts
Dórothea Louise Koehn
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
8
Maxine c. Loonis
Putney, Vermont
Dorothy C. Horse
Boston, Massachusetts
I
Nancie M. Pett
Detroit, Michigan
5
Their courage and resolution was as great, but no greater than that
3
of all the other nembers of the Unit, but their sacrifice was greater,
and the loneliness and sorrow that has come into the lives of each
8
of their families cannot be forgotten by any of us.
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