ISOB Grace Malloch -American Red Cross Nurse
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Grave: Sepulture MN-66. Isolated Burial
A civilian grave; a white cross on a concrete inscribed base.
The Isolated burial (ISOB) of Grace Malloch, an American Red Cross Nurse who served in the area with Base Area Hospital 55. Nurse Malloch died after contracting pneumonia while performing her duties.
Miss Malloch whose home was in Boston, was a graduate of Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain. She was a member of the first Harvard unit and served at Base Hospital No. 22, A.E.F. in 1915. She was one of the Boston nurses who went to Halifax with the Red Cross commission at the time of the disaster in that city. She was assigned to Evacuation Hospital No 11 in the Argonne Forest sector in 1917, serving there through 1917 and 1918. She was chief nurse of the operating room at No. 11. She rejoined her unit at Toul on Dec. 6 of last year and died in the line of duty on Jan. 10, 1919."
Newspaper Notice: June 15, 1919, Boston Sunday Post:
"Miss Grace Malloch. Chief nurse with the First Harvard Hospital Unit who died while in the performance of Duty."
Source: Find a Grave and the New Hampshire History website.
Monument Text:
GRACE L. MALLOCH
DEC 2, 1878- JAN 11, 1919
AMERICAN RED CROSS NURSE
MORT PER LA PATRIA
Commemorates:
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Units:
American Red Cross
American Volunteer Group
Base Hospital 55
Wars:
WWI
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