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- August 1944
Folder includes a handwritten seating chart.
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Folder includes a handwritten seating chart.
Col. Lee D. Cady at "Family Dinner," Terme di Agnano, Italy, August 13, 1944.
Group portrait at "Family Dinner," Terme di Agnano, Italy, August 13, 1944.
Typed note accompanying the photograph identifies 18 subjects.
Patient receiving a long leg plaster cast, 21st General Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Typed note on back indicates date of 10-3-44, Naples, Italy. “View of the cast room at the 21st Gen Hospital, patient is having a long leg plaster cast put on.” Typed note attached: “Capt. Crouch and assistants applying a long leg plaster cast. Surgical Technicians are (left) Sgt. Jas. Gibbons & Curtis Kindgren. Nurse giving anesthesia – Verona Blesse – a ‘CCC’ who’s favorite expletive was ‘poor Mrs. Crouch!’” Surgeon identified as Capt. Crouch may be Russell J. Crider, see note for VC013199.
Typed note on back indicates date of 10-3-44, Naples Italy. “View of the orthopedic surgical dressing room, at the 21st Gen. Hospital. The doctor is performing a closure of a gun-shot wound over a fracture.” Handwritten note on back of enlargement indicates Capt. Francis R. Crouch operating, Nurse Eleanor Brinkmeyer. However, a note dated January 2003 indicates surgeon operating is Russell J. Crider as confirmed by Crider’s son.
21st General Hospital site map with key, Naples, Italy.
Hand-painted map of 21st General Hospital Area. Naples, Italy, 1944. Artist, P. F. C. R. Allen. Includes key to buildings.
Group portrait of 9-A Neurosurgery and 9-B General Surgery personnel, Building #9.
Typed note attached to the photograph reads: "Building #9. Neuro Surg A, Gen B. Backrow: Pfc. Bradley, Pfc. Valentine, Lt. Rose Miller, Capt. Chase, Capt. Roulhac, Lt. Thompson, T/5 Solimo. Front row: Lt. Jackson, Lt. Hart, Lt. Hagler, Lt. Santangelo."
Group portrait of the Officers' softball team.
Typed note accompanying the photograph reads: "Officer's Soft-ball team. Standing: Capt. Polzinetti, 1st Lt. O'Sullivan, Major Harbison, Capt. Drown, Major Jasper, Major O'Brien, Capt. Modlin. Sitting: Capt. Winterbower, Capt. Roulhac, Capt. Crider, 1st Lt. Sargent."
Billington-Roulhac wedding reception, Hotel Beau Sejour, Bou Hanifia, Algeria.
Typed note accompanying the photograph reads: "As recalled, the viands on the table at the reception left little else to desire."
Billington-Roulhac wedding reception, Hotel Beau Sejour, Bou Hanifia, Algeria.
Typed note accompanying the photograph reads: "Then Lt. Col. Cady and Maj. Henry G. Schwartz, Chief of Neurosurgery, and preceptor for the groom, got a chance to get into a group picture with them as they prepared to cut the wedding cake."
General Hospital 21 Certificate, Army of the United States.
The certificate certifies General Hospital 21 as a organized reserve unit of the Army of the United States.
Softball Championship Certificate awarded to 21st General Hospital, Italy.
Lyrics to "Sorrento" by T/5 Sam Barbee.
The song is dedicated to Col. Lee D. Cady.
Aerial view of Bou Hanifia, Algeria.
The photograph is mounted on a board.
Aerial view of Bou Hanifia, Algeria.
The photograph is mounted on a board. See also VC013072.
Aerial view of Ravenel Hospital, Mirecourt, France.
General Hospital 21 Photographs and Drawings
This collection consists of 724 photographs, drawings, diagrams, posters, newspaper clippings, and sheet music, and other ephemera related to the 21st General Hospital. The photographs primarily depict staff and patients of the 21st General Hospital from when it was stationed overseas 1942-1945, as well as views of hospital buildings and grounds. Drawings and diagrams include plans for wiring and plumbing, architectural and ground plans, and some schematic drawings of hospital equipment. Other ephemera in the collection include hand-drawn posters advertising Officers' Club dances, newspaper clippings from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Pictures Section depicting operations at General Hospital 21, and cartoon watercolors depicting soldiers and Red Cross workers.
21st General Hospital