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daughter of Mrs. Olmstead, Tekamah, Neb. Entered the service October 4, 1918, was sent to Camp Beauregard, La. Assigned to Reserve Army Nurse Corps to combat the influenza epidemic raging there at that time. Seven thousand of the boys were ill with it while she was on duty there. Camp Beauregard is three miles from the base hospital and seven miles from Alexandria La. Mrs. Filkins was released from active service December 22, 1918.
of Oakland, Neb. Entered the U. S. Navy August 15, 1917 at St. Paul, Minn., with a group of young ladies from her own school. In the Mound Park Hospital they formed the Unit No. 50. The unit was sent to the Base Hospital at Great Lakes Naval Training Station at Chicago, Ill., January 30, 1918, where she served until released or honorably discharged January 17, 1919.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Nesbit, Tekamah, Neb. Entered the American Red Cross Canteen work at Omaha, May 19, 1918. She was assigned to local active service until March 26, 1919 when she was sent to France to relieve an assistant canteen manager at Marsaillies, where she rendered most efficient service until she was released from active service and returned to U. S. in August, 1919.
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