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Title
[Elna
Jones
and
patients
,
circa
1945]
Date
1945
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
Item description
Elna
Jones
, in
nursing
uniform
,
poses
with
four
male
patients
,
circa
1945
.
Veteran's name
Jones, Elna Violet Allran
Veteran's biography
Elna
Violet
Allran
Jones
of
Hickory
,
North
Carolina
,
served
in the
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
and
Army
Nurse
Corps
(ANC)
in the
1940s
,
followed
by a
twenty
year
career
in
nursing
.
Elna
Violet
Allran
Jones
of
Hickory
,
North
Carolina
,
graduated
from
high
school
in
1940
. She
attended
Lenior-Rhyne
College
in
Hickory
for
one
year
before
beginning
training
at
Charlotte
Memorial
Hospital
School
of
Nursing
. In
1944
,
Jones
joined
the
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
. She
graduated
in
July
1945
and
joined
the
Army
Nurse
Corps
. She
reported
to
Camp
Rucker
,
Alabama
, but
World
War
II
ended
before
she
finished
basic
training
.
Jones
had
committed
to a
two-year
term
and was
thus
assigned
briefly
to
Battey
General
Hospital
in
Rome
,
Georgia
,
before
being
transferred
to
Fort
Benning
in
Columbus
,
Georgia
. She was
later
stationed
at
Camp
Kilmer
,
New
Jersey
, and
assigned
to the
New
York
Port
of
Embarkation
,
where
her
duty
was to
ride
on
trains
transporting
wounded
soldiers
returning
from
overseas
. She was
discharged
as a
first
lieutenant
in
July
1947.
"
Following
World
War
II
,
Jones
worked
as a
nurse
at
Harborview
Hospital
in
Seattle
,
Washington
,
before
returning
to
North
Carolina
in
1955
to
work
at the
Children's
Home
in
Winston-Salem
.
Five
years
later
, she
moved
to
Greensboro
and
took
a
nursing
position
at
Moses
Cone
Hospital
. In
April
1973
,
Jones
returned
to
work
at the
Children's
Home
,
while
also
volunteering
at
Camp
Dogwood
summer
camp
for the
blind
. In
1977
, she
went
to
work
for the
Greensboro
School
for the
Deaf
,
where
she
remained
for
twenty
years
.
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
WV0023 Elna Allran Jones Papers
Collection summary
1999
Oral
History
interview
;
photographs
;
newspaper
;
Battey
General
Hospital
,
1945
;
newspaper
; The
Army
Needs
You
!
1944
;
newspaper
; What
Every
Cadet
Nurse
Should
Know
,
1944
;
newspaper
;
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
News
,
April
1945
;
Programs/Menus
:
Thanksgiving
,
1945
,
Christmas
,
1945
,
Easter
,
1947
,
Fort
Benning
Theatre
Guild
, ca.
1944-1947
.
Poem
newspaper
;
Army
Nurses
,
non-combatant
;
newspaper
;
Miscellaneous
Postcards
and
Souvenirs
, ca.
1945-1946
;
Cadet
Nurse
Patch
With
Caduceus
Pin
,
Cadet
Nurse
Patch
,
Caduceus
Pin
.
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
WV0023.6.007
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
900810495
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