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Biography

Biographical essays of about one thousand words with up to ten images are arranged in alphabetical order below.

John Fairbairn Binnie: A Scottish-American Leader of Base Hospital #28
Nancy Hulston, MA, and Anthony L. Kovac, MD

Edith Cavell - Nurse and Martyr
Moya Peterson, RN, PhD, APRN, FNP-C
Associate Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center

Logan Clendening's Unattainable War
Nancy Hulston, MA

Jane A. Delano - Superintendent of US Army Nurse Corps
Moya Peterson, RN, PhD, APRN, FNP-C
Associate Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center

Charles Clayton Dennie, MD: Dermatologist and Raconteur
Nancy Hulston, MA

Lieutenant William T. Fitzsimons, MD: Good and Faithful Servant
Alex Welborn, MLIS

C.B. Francisco, MD: World War I Orthopedic Surgeon, Officer and Gentleman
Nancy Hulston, MA

Ludwik and Hanka Hirszfeld: Pioneers in Blood Typing
James Patton, BS
Military Historian, U.S. Army Veteran, and WW-I Feature Writer

Frances Ivens, MB, MS Lond, ChM Liverp.
Grace E.F. Holmes, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and of Preventive Medicine Emerita

Lindsay Stephen Milne: A Scottish-American Leader of Base Hospital #28
Nancy Hulston, MA, and Anthony L. Kovac, MD

Henry G.J. Moseley - Battle Death at Gallipoli of Promising Young Physicist
James Patton, BS
Military Historian, U.S. Army Veteran, and WW-I Feature Writer

Quentin Roosevelt, 2nd Lieutenant, First Reserve Aero Squadron: Death in Combat of a Young Aviator, A True Son of His Father
James Patton, BS
Military Historian, U.S. Army Veteran, and WW-I Feature Writer

Walter S. Sutton, MD: A Genius Goes To War
Nancy Hulston, MA

Frank Teachenor, MD, Pioneer Neurosurgeon
Charles E. Brackett, MD

The Death of The Red Baron
Frederick Holmes, MA, MD, FAC

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