Eunice Holmes Sanders papers, 1917-1921. 1917-1921.

Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine.

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Sanders, Eunice Holmes, 1887-1984.

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Eunice Harriet Sanders, 1887-1984, was born Eunice Holmes in Nevada, Missouri. Eunice Holmes was a Red Cross nurse in Kansas City attached to Unit 2, Kansas City Emergency Detachment when she transferred to Base Hospital No. 21, St. Louis on May 5, 1917. She left St. Louis for New York May 17, 1917 and served in Rouen, France from June 1917 to the end of 1918. After working as a public health nurse in the Kansas City area, she married Jean Sanders. From the description of Eunice Holm...

United States. Army. Base Hospital No. 30

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Base Hospital 19 began in 1916, when 11 Rochester area physicians formed a unit of the Medical Corps Reserve. By 1917, when the unit was mobilized, 134 doctors, nurses and enlisted men from the Rochester area were ready. The unit reached Vichy, France, in June 1918, and established Base Hospital No. 19, a 2,000 bed facility. The hospital served over 11,000 patients during the 6 months it operated. Base Hospital 19 was closed in February of 1919, and its members discharged in early May. ...