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Alice Fitzgerald's World War I diary
This diary documents Alice Fitzgerald's nursing service with the British Expeditionary Forces in France. It describes the layout and condition of the wards, the weather for the day, and descriptions of troops, patients, ward books, and personal…
Alice Fitzgerald's Polish Red Cross Nursing Education medal
Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. This medal is for her work with the American…
Alice Fitzgerald's Order of the Serbian Red Cross medal
Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. Cross-shaped silver breast badge with red…
Alice Fitzgerald's Merit Cross of the Hungarian Red Cross
Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. This Hungarian Breast badge is made of…
Alice Fitzgerald's medal from the American Nurses Memorial for the Florence Nightingale Training School, Bordeaux, France
Circular bronze medal with relief of Florence Nightingale holding an open book that reads "5 Juin 1921" in one hand while writing with the other on the front; reverse features a Roman style oil lamp and a shield with flora around the edges. The medal…
Alice Fitzgerald's Marie Depage and Edith Cavell medals
Edith Cavell was a British nurse working in German-occupied Belgium who was executed in 1915 by the Germans for helping 200 Allied soldiers escape. Marie Depage was a Belgian nurse, and wife of Dr. Antoine Depage. She was killed on May 7, 1915 in the…
Alice Fitzgerald's Italian Red Cross Medal
Medal awarded to Alice Fitzgerald for her work during World War I to open a Hospital in Rimini, Italy for Venetian refugees. Circular medal with a large cross on the front and the image of a crowned eagle on the back; suspended from a white ribbon…
Alice Fitzgerald's International Red Cross Florence Nightingale Award
The International Red Cross Florence Nightingale Award is the highest international distinction a nurse can achieve and is awarded to nurses or nursing aides for "exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or disabled or to civilian…
Alice Fitzgerald's Inter-Allied Victory medal, French Issue
French issue Inter-Allied Victory medal; circular bronze medal with bas-relief of the winged figure of Victory on the front with arms outstreteched and holding a laurel wreath and an olive branch while a sword rests in its sheath at her hip; reverse…