WWI · Battle Death Record
Florence Athay
Nurse, U.S. Army · New York
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Florence Athay
- Entered the Service From
- New York
- Rank
- Nurse
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Army Nurse Corps, Base Hospital No. 67
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- November 12, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood, England
Their story
Florence Athay was a Red Cross worker in New York who joined the Army Nurse Corps and served with Base Hospital No. 67, which operated at Mesves-sur-Loire, France, from August 1918, treating thousands of casualties. She died in the line of duty of meningitis on November 12, 1918, in England, and in 1922 was reburied at Brookwood American Cemetery.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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