NURSES OF WORLD WAR II
   ww2 - Nurses in The Memorial Listings that have ww2 after their name lost their lives serving in World War2. Unfortunately, only limited information is available to date regarding individual backgrounds.   
AUSTRALIA
At 0410 hrs. 14 May 1943 off the coast of Brisbane, Queensland, Imperial Japanese Submarine I-177 torpedoed the Australian Hospital Ship CENTAUR. The ship sank in less than three minutes.Of the 332 non-combatants on board, 268 died. These are the nursing sisters that lost their lives. [Ent. 10/99]
(Source: http://www.education.mcgill.ca/profs/milligan/centaur/A.HOME
Jewell, Sarah Anne, head of Nursing.
Adams, Margaret: Age 30. From Victoria.
O'Donnell, Alice: From Victoria
Rutherford, Ellen M.: From Victoria.
Haultain, Helen: From NSW.
Shaw, Edna A.: From NSW.
King, Evelyn: From NSW
Walker, W.'Jennie': Age 24. From Victoria
McFarlane, Mary SA
Moston, Merle: From NSW. Wyllie, Doris Joyce: Age 26. From NSW
CANADA
Wilkie, Agnes:The only Canadian nurse to die due to enemy action during the Second World War was a navy sister. Despite the heroic efforts of her companion, Sub-Lt. (Dietician) Margaret Brooke, Sister Wilkie died following more that two hours of struggle to hold out in a life boat, after the sinking of the SS Caribou in the Cabot Strait off Newfoundland.
[Ent. 10/99] (Source:  http://www.vacacc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/nursing/sisterhist3)
USA
Ainsworth, Ellen: Died Feb. 16,1944 from wounds when a hospital unit was bombed during the Battle of Anzio (Italy) on Feb. 10th. Ellen, 24, was from Glenwood City, Wisconsin/USA. She was commended for her bravery in attempting to move patients to safety and instilling confidence in her assistants during the battle and received the Silver Star and Purple Heart. A conference room in the Pentagon in Washington, DC/USA and a building at the Wisconsin Veterans Home are named in her honor. *
Billings , Margaret, 2nd Lt. One of six Army Nurse Corps nurses who died April 28,1945 when a kamikazi (suicide plane) completely destroyed the area of operating rooms of the hospital ship Comfort somewhere between Guam and Okinawa in the South Pacific. 28 personnel were killed and 48 others were wounded.
[Ent. 6/01] (Source: http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ah6.htm . Identity was furnished by a person who recalled the incident about one of the nurses.)
Chelsey, Frances, 2nd Lt. The Presque Isle high school that Frances graduated from in 1928 memorialized her with a plaque as one of six Army Nurse Corps nurses who died April 28,1945 when a kamikazi (suicide plane) completely destroyed the area of operating rooms of the hospital ship Comfort somewhere between Guam and Okinawa in the South Pacific. 28 personnel were killed and 48 others were wounded.
[Ent. 6/01] (Source: http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ah6.htm . Identity was furnished by a person from Maine who recalled the incident about her.)
Eckert, Evelyn  One of six Army Nurse Corps nurses who died April 28,1945 when a kamikazi (suicide plane) completely destroyed the area of operating rooms of the hospital ship Comfort somewhere between Guam and Okinawa in the South Pacific. 28 personnel were killed and 48 others were wounded.
[Ent. 6/01] (Source: http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ah6.htm . Identity was furnished by a person who recalled the incident about one of the nurses.)
Farquhar, LaVerne, Lt.: Died Feb. 10,1944 when the 33rd Field Hospital was bombed during the Battle of Anzio (Italy). *
Laverne was from Harlingen, Texas/USA and 30 years of age.
Greenwood, Ida, 2nd Lt. One of six Army Nurse Corps nurses who died April 28,1945 when a kamikazi (suicide plane) completely destroyed the area of operating rooms of the hospital ship Comfort somewhere between Guam and Okinawa in the South Pacific. 28 personnel were killed and 48 others were wounded.
[Ent. 6/01] (Source: http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ah6.htm . Identity was furnished by a person who recalled the incident about one of the nurses.)
Grewer, Florence, 1st Lt. One of six Army Nurse Corps nurses who died April 28,1945 when a kamikazi (suicide plane) completely destroyed the area of operating rooms of the hospital ship Comfort somewhere between Guam and Okinawa in the South Pacific. 28 personnel were killed and 48 others were wounded.
[Ent. 6/01] (Source: http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ah6.htm . Identity was furnished by a person who recalled the incident about one of the nurses.)
Lutz, Aleda: Died: Nov. 1,1944. Aleda is one of the most celebrated war heroes of World War II. As a First Lieutenant Army Flight Nurse, she flew 196 missions in an air ambulance, losing her own life in an evacuation effort over Lyon, Italy. She was from Freeland, Michigan. [Ent. 1/99] (Source: http://leslie.k12.mi.us/~mwhfame/mwhonor.html )
Morrow, Marjorie, Lt.: Died Feb. 7,1944 when the 95th Evac Hospital was bombed during the Battle of Anzio (Italy).*
Richardson, Eloise M. 2nd Lt. Died May 18, 1944, while on a routine flight between the western coast of Bougainville and Guadalcanal in the South Pacific. She was a flight nurse aboard a C-47 which was transporting wounded troops, but never arrived at it's destination. No evidence of it's whereabouts has ever been recovered. Eloise, 24 was from Marseilles, Illinois/USA. She graduated from Ryburn-King School of Nusing and had worked in Cook Co. Hospital in Chicago prior to enlisting in the Army as a nurse in 1942. She later transferred to the Army Air Force division of nurses in 1943. Eloise was declared officially dead on May 19, 1945 and in August was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart. [Ent. 6/01] (Source: http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/mia.html )
Sheetz, Carrie, 1st Lt..:Died Feb. 7,1944 when when the 95th Evac Hospital was bombed during the Battle of Anzio (Italy).*
Sigman, Blanche, Lt.:Died Feb. 7,1944 when when the 95th Evac Hospital was bombed during the Battle of Anzio (Italy).* A mercy (hospital) ship was named in her honor during the war.
Slanger, Frances, Lt.: Died Oct. 21,1944.  "Frances Slanger was the only Army nurse killed by enemy action in the push from Normandy to the Rhine.  She was one of four nurses who waded ashore at the Normandy beachhead on D-Day . She was assigned to the 45th Field Hospital.  Her unit came under an artillery barrage from the enemy, and she was mortally wounded when one of the shells burst nearby. She died two hours later and was buried in the American military cemetery of Henri Chapelle (Belgium).  Some years later, Slanger's family had her remains removed and interred in a Jewish cemetery in Roxbury, MA." [Ent. 7/02] (Contributed by Evelyn Rose Benson, author of As We See Ourselves:Jewish  Women in Nursing. Indianapolis IN: Center Nursing Publishing, 2001, pp 180-181). [Addtnl ref.: http://www.fau.edu/library/br100.htm]
Stanke, Dorothy, 2nd Lt. One of six Army Nurse Corps nurses who died April 28,1945 when a kamikazi (suicide plane) completely destroyed the area of operating rooms of the hospital ship Comfort somewhere between Guam and Okinawa in the South Pacific. 28 personnel were killed and 48 others were wounded.
[Ent. 6/01] (Source: http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ah6.htm . Identity was furnished by a person who recalled the incident about one of the nurses.)
* [Ent. 10/99] (Source: They Gave Their Lives: http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/lives.html )
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