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Naval Destroyer Higbee II: Namesake Received Navy Cross for her WWI Service – Soldier of Fortune Magazine


Mrs. L.S. Higbee at her desk, photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1918.
All reporting U.S. Navy :Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee was born in Chatham, Canada, on 18 May 1874. After immigrating to the United States, she completed her nursing training at New York Postgraduate Hospital in 1899 and later received further training at Fordham Hospital. On 1 October 1908, she became one the first twenty nurses in the newly-formed Navy Nurse Corps (commonly referred to as The Sacred Twenty). She became the second superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1911. 
Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee served in the United States Navy from 1908-1922.  For eleven of her fourteen years of service, Higbee was Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps.  Chief Nurse Higbee received the Navy Cross for her leadership of the Navy Nurse Corps during World War I.  She was the first female to be presented the award. ....

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