Carrie May Hall, 1874-1963

Carrie May Hall was born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1874, and graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital School for Nurses in 1904. She worked as superintendent of the Margaret Pillsbury Hospital in Concord, N.H., until 1911, and then became principal of the school of nursing and superintendent of nurses at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

In 1917, she was sent to France as Chief Nurse of the "Harvard Unit" and was stationed at General Hospital No.11. After one year in this post, she was appointed head nurse of the American Red Cross in Great Britain, and was later transferred to the position of chief nurse of the American Red Cross in France, where she worked until six months after the Armistice in 1919. CMH was instumental in developing the organization which was utilized by future nursing staffs of the American Red Cross Commissions overseas.

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