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Title
[Elsie
Seetoo
at
Hong
Kong
Nurses
Quarters
,
circa
1939]
Date
1939
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Army--Army Nurse Corps
Other--Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps
Item description
Elsie
Yuen
Seetoo
, in
nurse's
uniform
,
stands
by the
nurse's
quarters
at
Queen
Mary
Hospital
in
Hong
Kong
where
she
received
her
training
.
Veteran's name
Seetoo, Elsie Chin Yuen
Veteran's biography
Elsie
Chin
Yuen
Seetoo
(b
.
1918)
of
Stockton
,
California
,
served
in the
Chinese
Red
Cross
Medical
Relief
Corps
from
1942
to
1944
and in the
U.S
.
Army
Nurse
Corps
from
1944
to
1946
.
Elsie
Chin
Yuen
Seetoo
was
born
in
Stockton
,
California
, on
14
September
1918
. In
1931
,
when
she was
twelve
years
old
,
Seetoo’s
family
returned
to
Xinhui
in the
Guangdong
Province
of
China
, and she
attended
the
Pooi
To
Middle
School
in
Guangzhoun
[Canton]
for
six
years
.
After
graduation
in
1938
,
Seetoo
entered
nurse’s
training
at the
Queen
Mary
Hospital
in
Hong
Kong
and
graduated
in
1941
.
In
April
1942
Seetoo
joined
the
Chinese
Red
Cross
Medical
Relief
Corps
in
Guiyang
,
where
she
worked
in the
operating
room
before
joining
a
medical
training
unit
. In
early
1943
Seetoo
was
stationed
in
Ramgarh
,
India
, to
train
orderlies
. She
returned
to
China
after
seven
months
and
resigned
from the
Chinese
Red
Cross
in
February
1944
.
Seetoo
joined
the
U.S
.
Army
Nurse
Corps
in
June
1944
and was
stationed
with the
14th
Air
Force
as a
member
of the
Air
Service
Command
. She
continued
to
serve
in
China
with the
95th
Station
Hospital
in
Kunming
and
Chengdu
, and with the
172nd
General
Hospital
in
Shanghai
from
October
1945
to
February
1946
.
Seetoo
returned
to the
United
States
in
February
1946
and was
discharged
in
May.
"
After
her
military
service
,
Seetoo
married
and
attended
the
Woman’s
College
of the
University
of
North
Carolina
(now
the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro)
. She
graduated
in
1948
with a
bachelor
of
science
in
nursing
.
Seetoo
and her
husband
lived
in the
Washington
,
D.C.
,
area
and
raised
a
family
. She
did
freelance
work
for a
translation
agency
for
thirty
years
and was a
technical
publications
writer
for the
Naval
Medical
Center
.
Place
Hong
Kong
(China)
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0331 Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo Papers
Rights statement
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Additional rights information
IN
COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0331.6.001
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 --
http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number
900813153
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