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January 11, 1943
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Miss Mary Marget Dodds
c/o American Red Cross
12 Crosvenor Souaro
London WL, England
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My dear Miss Lodds:
With the transfer of the American Red Cross-harvard Fielu Hospital for
Comminicable Diseases to the United States Army, this service of Red Cross
nurses to the English people has been brought to a conclusion. Twenty nurses
have returned to this countrys 31 have joined the l'orces in Englend,
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 Mashington at this time but it has been neces ery for us to relinquish
this idea because of the extra demands which such a ceremony would lace
upon transport tion and hotel accommodations. Although our lans for a
ceremony connot be roalized, it is fitting bix t we should récall at this time
that this Was the first unit of Red Cross workers to brove, the dangers of
crosaing the sea in that vory critical periog before our country vent to ner.
Not one American nurs. lost her life by direct action of the enemy in the
First Horld War, but in this conflict, siximonths before we ourselvo. became
involved, five of our group of Red Cross nurses with their housemother did so
sacrifice their lives. To Sie their names written out givel me as an American
rurse a groat sente of bride.
Mrs. Ruth Breckinridge, housenother, Winston-Solem, North Carolina
Phyllis Lou Evans
ivverett, Massachusetts
Dorothea Louise Koehn
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Maxine C. Loomis
Putney, Vermont
Dorothy C. Morse
Boston, Mast&chusetts
Nancie M. Pett
Detroit, Michigan
Their courage and° resolution was as groat, but no greater than that of all the
other nembers of the Unit, but their sacrifico was gre-tor, und the loneliness
and sorro that has come into the livec of enel of tl ir families cannot be
forgotten by any of us.
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