When I was in San Francisco, I spent some time in the National Cemetery and took a picture of a random grave - a nurse who'd died in October of 1918, Nellie Galliher. No one important - just one more grave on a hillside overlooking the Bay. When I got home, thanks to the the internet, I learned some things- that in 1912 she was working at the German Hospital of San Francisco, and then later at the Franklin Hospital, also in San Francisco, who recorded her departure to the Army in their Alumnae records. She enrolled in the Army Nurse Corps in May of 1918, going to Camp Kearney (CA) and was later assigned to Base Hospital 62. She died of pleural pneumonia (read: probably also flu) on the day the ship she was traveling on (the USS Leviathan) reached France. She was 33 years old. I even found her picture. Some 101 years later, she is not just a grave - she is a person. On this Armistice Day/ Veterans Day, Nurse Nellie Galliher is not forgotten. #armisticeday #veteransday #womeninthemilitary #armynursecorps #worldwarone
