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Elizabeth McWilliams of Summerville, N.J. She sailed from New York in October as a Red Cross nurse's aid and died of pneumonia just as the ship reached the British port. She is buried not far from Red Cross Headquarters in London. There was an outbreak of influenza on the ship in which Miss McWilliams sailed. She worked hard all the first day scrubbing out the influenza-infected baggage room to provide a temporary hospital. That night she worked as an emergency cook for three hours and then until midnight wrote letters for the influenza patients. Next morning she was herself stricken. Her last words were "I am happy because I've tried to be a real American. Miss Alice Fleenor of San Francisco who was one of her closest friends on board ship, writes: "We who knew her, know how much of inspiration we derived from her unselfish sacrifice and devotion. Two hundred Red Cross people started their service in Europe with a new reverence, a new resolve to carry higher the spirit of the RC in memory of the young girl who served for one day as a real American source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/anrc.10211/ Created / Published [ca. 1918] Subject Headings - American Red Cross - England--London Headings Glass negatives. Genre Glass negatives Notes - Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. - Group title: Personnel, Eng. - Date based on date of negatives in same range. - Data: Atlantic S.W. Lake. Pacific. N.W. Potomac New England Southern Central Pa. Northern. - Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. - General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc - Temp note: Batch 21 Call Number/Physical Location LC-A6196- 55907 [P&P] Source Collection American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress) Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id anrc 10211 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/anrc.10211 Library of Congress Control Number 2017675966 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-anrc-10211 (digital file from original)
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AuteurPaul Jansen; Hobby fotograaf uit Nieuw-Vennep. Archieven
April 2021
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