The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-20
|HONORS FOX WOMEN
EXHIBIT fine BRAVERY
MILITARY MEDAL Is WON BY
NURSES IN FRANCE
GaIIantry and Devotion To
Their Duty In Face OF
Great Danger

London, August 1S.--[By MALL
The highest honor English war wom-
en- have won is the Military medal.
The soldiers silver medal Tor
bravery in the field" has now been
conferred on nearly a hundred plueky
British women.
Among many wonderful examples
of courage recorded in the official
citations are these:
Sister Charlotte Lillian Annie
Robinson. For conspicuous devotion
to duty and courage when station
airy hospital was struck by four
bombs from an enemy aeroplane and
one wing was practically cut in two.
many patients being buried in the
debris. Sister Robinson at very great
personal risk went in among the
ruins to assist in recovering the pa
tents, quite regardless of danger,
her enc thought being to rescue the
patients. She displayed magnificent
GOODNESS and resource"
Bravery and Devotion to Duty
Sister Nellie Calvin. For bravery
and devotion to duty during an enemy
air raid when four enemy bombs
were dropped on the building oc-
cupied by the hospital, causing much
damage to the ward in which Sister
Calvin was on night duty. She re-
NAMED in the ward attending to the
sick, several of whom were wounded.
and carried on her work as if moth
ing had happened. She displayed the
greatest GOODNESS and devotion to
duty"
Staff Nurse Beatrice Dascombe,
during an enemy air raid when her
ward, being destroyed by bomb and
herself wounded, she insisted on re-
naming at her post and attending
to the wounded"
Sister Mary Ellen Davis. For gall
lantry and devotion to duty during an
enemy air raid. When the Sisters
quarters were wrecked and bombs
were falling, she showed a fine ex-
ample and assisted materially in con-
trolling the situation and attending
to the Sisters who were wounded"
Miss Katherine Margaret Fresh
field 'FOr gallantry and devotion to
duty during an enemy air raid. The
ward in which she was working was
destroyed by a bomb, but she con-
tinued to attend to her patients and
was herself very severely wounded"
Disregarded All Dangers.
Commondant Winifred Eleanor
Sarah Mount Batten. For gallantry
and devotion to duty during an enemy
air raid. She superintended the work
of the convoy, drove an ambulance
car herself during the raid, and by
her GOODNESS and disregard for her
| own safety ensured the prompt re-
| moval of the wounded to one hospital"
Nurse Mary Gwynnedd Campbell.
For gallantry and devotion to duty
during an enemy air raid, when build
ings were set on fire. She moved
| about in full glare regardless of i'm
minent danger, taking patients to
safety, and inspiring confidence in
ALL"
Following is the citation of the
French army comforting the Croix
de Guerre on Miss Ami Mackinnon,
| British nurse attached to the French
Flag Nursing corps:
"a nurse who, under the difficult
circumstances of the withdrawal of
the ambulance, under enemy fire
continued to attend the sick and
wounded up to the last minute, with
remarkable courage and sang -froid,
thus demonstrating the qualities which
all of her chiefs have recognized in
her during. the three years that she
has devoted herself to the French
| soldiers"