![]() ![]() I have looked again at the photo mentioned in your third link on post #1. Perhaps the 'Delta' nurses had an annual re-union. A full transcript does not appear to be online – does anyone know more about these documents? Excerpt here: S/Nurse, Agnes STEPHENSON period on board Delta as her file is unavailable at present.Īnna Margarette CAMERON, a diary or letters of her’s exist. Holmes in dark cape, 3rd from left / 2nd row?: Link to Amy’s grave site – it would be interesting to know what is recorded on the headstone:ĭelta Medical Staff 1915, A/Matron A. The Red Cross Nursing Service was represented at the funeral Saturday by Miss Clara D Noyes, director and Miss Ida. She was personally decorated by King George for her brave and gallant services on Hospital Ships and in Egypt.įor two years immeadiatly preceeding her death Miss Holmes had been the superintendant of the Hartford Orphan Asylum, Hartford, Conn., and in the exercise of her duties there had shown the same courage and self-sacrifice in carrying on, though suffering from an incurable disease, that she had again and again displayed during her military career. After the armistance she assissted in the Paris office of the American Red Cross Nursing Service. during the World War, and later with the English army in Egypt. Her professional career was a gallant record of services to her native land and to the country of her adoption, she having served in the Boer War, with the British forces in the Spanish-American War in the Phillipines with the A.E.F. Miss Holmes was born in Sheffield, England, but came to the United States in her youth and was a graduate of the New York Hospital Training School, class of 1896. Funeral services had been held the preceeding afternoon in Grace Church chantry, New York City where Miss Holmes death had occured. With Military honors, the body of Miss Amy Elizabeth Holmes, a Red Cross Nurse, was buried last Saturday in the National Cemetery at Arlington. "The Red Cross Courier" (Official Organ American Red Cross.) U.S.A.īody of Prominent War Nurse Rests at Arlington Cemetery. by Amy's sister, Miss Helen Holmes, who was living in Lenox, Mass. Transcript of the obituary cutting sent to Q.A.I.M.N.S. ![]() She served there from April till resigning from the service in June 1918.Īmy Elizabeth Holmes died in New York City on the 23rd February 1922 and was buried in the Nurses Section of the Arlington National Cemetery. She then returned to England in March 1918 and following a period of leave was posted to Stoke War Hospital. ![]() Her last posting abroad was A/Matron, Military Hospital (Infectious), Choubra, Cairo. It is likely that she transferred to a land posting in Egypt before Delta sailed to East Africa in the summer of 1916. thank you for your offer of service, and in reply to inform you that if you returned to this country at your own risk and charges, no promise could be given of employment.’ This didn’t put off Amy, she reported her arrival from America to the War Office in February 1915.Īmy’s first posting, 26th March 1915, was as A/Matron on H.M.H.S. The letter is no longer in the file but the reply from Matron-in-Chief E.H. On the outbreak of war, Amy Holmes wrote a letter dated 14 th August 1914 from New York to Q.A.I.M.N.S. Posted to Devonport 1st September 1904 to 6th October 1906, to Caterham 25th October 1906 until her engagement terminated on 26th June 1907. South Africa from 21st August 1900, arriving ‘Home’ on “Plassy” 9th June 1904, granted leave. Joined the Army Nursing Service Reserve, posted to Aldershot from 8th June 1900 to 20th August 1900. (best match, if correct, she was living with her brother Edward’s family in Sheffield, 1911 Census)Īmy's British military nursing career from the NA file WO 399/3939: but surprisingly Amy doesn't appear to be mentioned online and her services have been forgotten.īorn 1870? Sheffield. She was laid to rest in the Arlington National Cemetery U.S.A. Amy Elizabeth Holmes nursed in Spanish-American War (1898), the Boer War & The Great War. Britannic posting I mentioned coming across another woman who served in three conflicts. Haven’t been able to find many of the nurses – I believe 12 (including Matron) would have been her normal compliment. ![]()
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