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This was the first general hospital group of doctors and nurses to reach Eu- rope from America. To her surprise, she found herself not only su- pervising the training of nurses and caring for their needs, but also discovered that a very important part of her assignment was to greet and escort visiting dignitaries. To her amuse- ment she took on the task of escorting politicians and
THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, March 29, 2012
a host of others such as Mrs. Winston Churchill, Henry Cabot Lodge and even Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the newly es- tablished compound in Belfast. She also enter- tained several well known Hollywood actors such as Bob Hope, Frances Lang- ford and Adolph Menjou. In January of 1943, Ber-
nice, together with her staff and well trained nurses and support personnel, were transferred from Ire-
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Bernice Sinclair prepares to bestow medals to her nurses. General George Patton is at the far left.
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land over to a newly con- structed hospital in Salis- bury, where she visited 30 other hospitals as part of the Southern Base Section in England. It was here where she
got a day off to pay her respects at the ancestral home of her childhood hero, Florence Nightingale, who had done so much during the earlier Crimean War to raise the world- wide status and quality of wartime nursing. She was also promoted to Chief
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Certificate from the City of Franklin. NH, honoring Sinclair in 1942.
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