Silver Star awarded posthumously to WWI nurse
The Army will present the Silver Star on Tuesday to the daughter of a World War I Army nurse who treated wounded soldiers while under artillery fire in 1918.
Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, acting surgeon general of the Army and chief of the Army Nurse Corps, will present the posthumous award for Linnie Leckrone at a 1:15 p.m. ceremony at The Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington, Va., according to an Army press release.
Leckrone, who died in 1989, was authorized the Citation Star for her gallantry while attending to the wounded during an artillery bombardment at Hospital Number 127, Chateau-Thierry, France, July 19, 1918, the release states. [The silver star replaced the Citation Star in the 1930s.]
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Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, acting surgeon general of the Army and chief of the Army Nurse Corps, will present the posthumous award for Linnie Leckrone at a 1:15 p.m. ceremony at The Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington, Va., according to an Army press release.
Leckrone, who died in 1989, was authorized the Citation Star for her gallantry while attending to the wounded during an artillery bombardment at Hospital Number 127, Chateau-Thierry, France, July 19, 1918, the release states. [The silver star replaced the Citation Star in the 1930s.]