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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	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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

[Elsie Seetoo at Hong Kong Nurses Quarters, circa 1939]

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