Margaret A. Nash was born on March 29, 1911 in Edwardsville, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Garrett J Nash and Mary Manley Nash. She graduated from Hanover High school and the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Wilkes Barre. She joined the Navy Nurses Corps on April 28, 1936. She worked at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Guam, and the Canacao Naval Hospital in Manila, Phillipines. Margaret was one of the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor” – the US Army and Navy Nurse Corps women who served in the Battle of the Philippines in 1941-42. When Bataan and Corregidor fell, 11 Navy nurses, 66 army nurses, and 1 nurse-anesthetist were captured and imprisoned in and around Manila. They continued to serve as nurses in various POW camps until they were finally liberated in February 1945.

After her medical retirement from the Navy in 1946, she joined the nursing staff at the Student Health Center of the University of California at Berkeley. Margaret attained her highest rank in the Navy as Commander. She retired from the university in 1973 and then served as a volunteer to senior citizens. She died on November 25, 1992 and is now buried in the Saint Mary's Cemetery, Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA.

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