Rare genuine WWII US Army Nurse Corps ID card, introduced in 1942 and issued in accordance with instructions of the 1929 Geneva Convention, which required that protected military and civilian personnel should carry an official document to be recognized as non-fighting personnel.
The present document was issued to 2nd Lieutenant Esther L. Kenyon at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey on September 1st, 1943.
Used condition; comes along with a Kenyon leather name tag.
Esther Louise Kenyon was born on July 4, 1905 in Lebanon, New Hampshire and graduated as a registered nurse in 1927. She joined the US Army in 1943 and went on to deploy in Europe, where she served in various station hospitals. Retiring in 1965 as a Lieutenant Colonel, she passed away on March 29, 1991.
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