WWI · Battle Death Record
Teresa Murphy
Nurse, U.S. Army · New Hampshire
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Teresa Murphy
- Entered the Service From
- New Hampshire
- Rank
- Nurse
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Army Nurse Corps, Base Hospital No. 3 (Base Section 3)
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- November 9, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood, England
- Grave
- Plot B, Row 5, Grave 6
Their story
Teresa Margaret Murphy served as a U.S. Army Nurse Corps nurse at Base Hospital No. 3 (Base Section 3), which cared for soldiers with pulmonary tuberculosis, in Vauclaire, France, and later London, England. She contracted tuberculosis from her patients and died at Farnham, Surrey, on November 9, 1918, two days before the Armistice. She was buried with full military honors at Brookwood American Cemetery.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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