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GREENWICH NURSE, CITED FOR BRAVERY, IS WELCOMED HOMEMiss Lillian G. Spence, Recipient of French 1Var Cross and Palm,GREENWICH, Feb. 6.—(Special.)—Miss Lillian G. Spence, who returned from France aboard the White Star liner Megantic last Saturday and who has since been stopping with Warden Joseph P. Crosby and family on Sound View Drive, left yesterday afternoon for a visit with her sister in Montreal, Canada. Prior to her departure she was given a dinner by a few of her friends at the Pickwick Inn. She will be gone about ten days and will then return to Greenwich, where she will resume her duties as a private nurse.Miss Spence has the distinction of being the only Greenwich nurse to be decorated with the Croi.v do Guerre and palm by the French government in recognition of her patriotic service as a nurse. 'Just before leaving France she was or-e of seven nurses to receive ‘a handsome wrist watch from members of the 57th Engineers, inappreciation of services given them during the influenza epidemic last fall. The watch bears the inscription of the 57th Engineers, her name, and the date.In May, 1517, Miss Spence went overseas and for a year was engaged in nursing the French wounded. A year Later with other nurses, she joined the American Red Cross and then cared for the wounded soldiers of the American armies. For a time she was located at a hase hospital during the Metz drive, and was transferred to a hospital not far from Chateau Thierry and finally was stationed a short distance from the big Argonoc drive.
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Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Fri, Feb 07, 1919
Page 35
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