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May 4, 1943
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Mr. C. J. Young
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Record Supervisor
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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New York City, N.Y.
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Dear Mr. Young:
Please refer to your letter of March 29, 1943 addressed to
American National Red Cross, attention Mr. J. o. Thornton, Assistant
National Director of Accounts, relative to a request submitted to you by
Mrs. Mabel M. Somerville, mother of Miss Margaret Somerville, for the
conversion of her daughter's group life insurance into an individual policy.
It appears from your letter that in January 1943 Mrs. Somerville
requested such conversion, but that since more than 31 days had elapsed from
the date Miss Somerville's insurance was cancelled by our Insurance Registry
Section you informed Mrs. Somerville that her request was not in order.
Miss Margaret Somerville was one of a group of Red Cross Nurses
assigned to duty at the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital in England.
On December 27, 1940, before leaving the United States, her
service head at National Headquarters mailed her a brief mimeographed state-
ment on the life insurance and sickness and accident insurance which the
Red Cross was providing for its overseas personnel. This statement was dated
December 5, 1940. In the paragraph covering "Life Insurance" it was stated:
"This insurance may, at the option of the worker and upon her
return to the United States and termination of employment, be
converted without medical examination into any of the usual
forms of life insurance, excepting term insurance, written by
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company at rates applicable to
the attained age and class of risk."
While enroute to England the vessel on which Miss Somerville
was a passenger was torpedoed and she and three other nurses spent ninetedn
days in an open life boat before they were picked up by a British Destroyer
and taken to England. A little later she took up her duties at the hospital.
kidney operation. She was discharged from the hospital on October 10, 1942
On August 1, 1942 she became ill and on August 24, 1942 she underwent a
and arrived back in the United States on November 12, 1942. A brief notifi- her
cation that she had arrived back in the United States was then sent by
service head to our Insurance Registry Section and notification that her
insurance had terminated was forwarded to you.
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