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U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 102
Vicenza, Italy
World War I - U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 102: Nurses, Officers & Sisters in Courtyard of the Hospital (formerly the Rossi Industrial School), Vicenza, Italy
When the United States entered World War I in April of 1917, hospitals served by the Daughters of Charity were quick to join the war effort. Along with about 100 nurses recruited from Daughters’ hospitals nationwide, ten sisters went off to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces. These Daughters, from what was then the Western Province centered in St. Louis, were under the leadership of Sister Chrysostom Moynahan, Chief Nurse. Together with the civilian nurses and U.S. Army doctors and nurses, they formed the staff of Base Hospital #102 in Vicenza, Italy, the hospital unit operating closest to the nearby Italian Front. Called the Loyola Unit, the group had been formed by Dr. Joseph A. Danna of Loyola University Medical School in New Orleans and an Italian-born U.S. citizen. Base Hospital #102 was attached to the Italian Army treating its soldiers but it, also, received injured or sick men from the 332nd Regiment from Ohio, the other U.S. military units and those of the Allies.
For more information about the U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 102, visit the following sites:
Digital Exhibit: Daughters of Charity in the First World War (February 6, 2015)
Records of Daughters of Charity Service in World War I, RG 7-5-6
American Women in World War I: Sister Chrysostom Moynahan: AEF chief nurse buried with military honors.