Barbee Cross presented to Katherine Olmsted by Queen Marie of Romania

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Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. Olmsted's public health nursing in Romania included conducting clinics and an outpatient department for women and children from a military hospital along the eastern front. This group was forced to evacuate in March 1918. Trapped between the German Army and the Russian Revolution with no outside contact, they escaped from Russia by train through Siberia and Lapland before sailing to England in April 1918. Iron barbee/arrow cross engraved with a crown on the front; suspended from a oval ring to be attached to a ribbon. Inscription Back: "1917" engraved.