By on January 23, 2017 - 9:42am
We Heard the Call: Our Doctors and Nurses in World War I exhibit celebrates the 100th anniversary of our doctors and nurses affiliated with The New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical College, and New York Hospital Training School for Nurses service in World War I. 417 (260 were CUMC alumni) doctors, 201 nurses, and 29 Bloomingdale Hospital employees answered the call to serve in the war.
Some doctors and nurses answered the call when the war began in 1914 serving in the American Red Cross or joining the Canadian, British, and French medical or nurses corps.
In 1916, the American Red Cross requested that The New York Hospital organized Base Hospital No 9. This unit was deployed in July 1917 where it served in France until 1919.
Other doctors and nurses joined the US Army and US Navy in 1917 serving in the military medical units in Europe, Naval ships at sea, and military camps and hospitals at home.
Five doctors and one nurse died in the war:
Harold Brown, CUMC Alumni
Florence Campbell, NYHTSN Alumni
James Johnson, CUMC Founding Faculty
Michael Lundy, Bloomingdale Employee
Bernard McElroy, Bloomingdale Employee
Theodore Mead, CUMC Alumni
John Ray Jr, CUMC Alumni
Richard Weill, CUMC Faculty
Here are the lists of veterans:
bloomingdale_hospital_employees.pdf
If you have information about these veterans or someone was left off the list, please share with us.
The exhibit is at Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Avenue Lobby.
Stay tune for monthly blogs about our role in World War I.
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