Frieda Gilbertson

This is a photocopy from an article in The Icelandic Nursing Magician (1999) about "West-Icelandic" nurses and war, the information is from a book from 1923, Minningarbók íslenskra hermanna (Memories of Icelandic Soldiers):

"Sigríður Gilbertson was at age of 28 when she started nursing at the Red Cross in Fort Snelling in Minnesota
in US. She was born the 6th of December 1890 in Minneota, Minnesota in US. Her parents were Sturlaugur
Guðbrandsson from Dalasýsla and Áslaug Guðmundsdóttir from Barðastrandasýsla. Sigríður graduated from
nursing school in US. After her graduation she joined The Red Cross and was working there as a nurse until
end of the War. 

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