Crisp-Turner-Wilcox County GaArchives Military Records.....BARNES, LT GLADYS E 1945 WWII U.S ARMY NURSE CORPS. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 July 7, 2011, 12:45 pm ASHBURN NURSE AT ARMY HOSPITAL IN ENGLAND THE 55TH GENERAL HOSPITAL, ENGLAND SECOND LT. GLADYS E. BARNES,28 OF ASHBURN,GA.. IS CHARGE NURSE OF A MEDICAL WARD IN THIS UNITED STATES ARMY GENERAL HOSPITAL IN ENGLANDSUPERVISING THE TREATMENT OF 44 WOUNDED PATIENTS. '' IT'S A FULL TIME TO SEE THAT ALL MY PATIENTSARE RECEIVING PROPER TREATMENT.''SAID LT. BARNES,'' BUT I CERTAINLY LIKE MY WORK. FOR ONE THING I GET A LOT OF SATISFACTION OUT OF SEEING THE MEN LEAVE IN SUCH GOOD HEALTH AND SPIRITS AFTER JUST A FEW WEEKS OF HOSPITAL CARE. I ASKED TO COME OVERSEASBECAUSE I THOUGHT I'D RATHER PUT MY TRAINING TO THE BEST POSSIBLE USE IN CARING FOR BATLE CASUALITIES. AND I'M GLAD I DID. MANY OF THESE SOLDIERS GOME HERE BADLY WOUNDED AND LOW IN SPIRIT. BUT IN JUST A SHORT TIME THEIR MORALE GOES UP AND AS A RESULT OF A SPECIALIZED TREATMENT THEY ARE SOON ABLE TO BE UP AND AROUND. THEIR GOOD NATURE AND GRATITUDE MAKES OUR WORK WORTHWHILE.'' LT. BARNES WAS A NURSE IN ADAMS HOSPITAL ,IN CORDELE,AND LATER IN PIEDMONT HOSPITAL ,ATLANTA. SHE HAS TWO SISTERS, MRS. SOL BLUM,AND MISS SARAH BARNESN THE PRESENT NURSING STAFF AT ADAMS HOSPITAL. LT. BARNES ENTERED THE ARMY NURSE CORPS JULY,1942, AND WAS STATIONED AT VARIOUS HOSPITALS BEFORE JOINING THIS UNIT IN JANUARY 1944,AT CAMP ROBINSON,ARKANSAS. LT. BARNES' PARENT,MR AND MRS W.H. BARNES, LIVE IN ASHBURN. Additional Comments: THNKS TO OUR BRAVE NURSES File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/other/barnes1422mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb