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25 March 1918 : Nurse Patricia Irene Byron, US Army Nurse Corps

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Patricia Byron was born 10 October 1882 in Butler, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Hope Hospital, Fort Wayne in 1906. Patricia was appointed Superintendent of the Allen County Tuberculosis Hospital soon afterwards. In the summer of 1917, she volunteered to be an Army nurse and was sent to Camp McArthur in Texas where she died of tuberculosis,...


17 June 1917 : Air Mechanic Frank Waddington

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Frank Waddington was born in Burnley, Lancashire in 1893, the son of Isabella Waddington and step-father Barker Greenwood. At the 1901 Census Frank, age 8, lived in Burnley with his grandmother and his five adult cousins, who were all employed as weavers.  At the 1911 Census, after his mother had remarried, Frank was back with his family, the t...