Army Nurse Corps
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1st. Lt. Rita G. Palmer James
Feb. 23, 1918 – Feb. 14, 2002
- Photo of Rita and her brother Ansell Palmer in High School
- Graduating class of 1936, Hampton Academy & High School
- Rita Palmer and her Nursing Class, 1939
- Season’s Greetings From The Philippines
- A Christmas Card was sent on November 27, 1941 from the Philippines by Rita Palmer to Mr & Mrs. Charles H. Palmer
- Flag Service Sunday Attended By Hundreds
- Hampton Union, February 18, 1943
- Bataan Nurses Reach Washington On Way Home
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
Thursday, February 1945
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
- Hampton Nurse Tells Of Life In Prison Camp
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
February 1945
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
- 1st. Lt. Rita G. Palmer’s Itinerary
- From Camp Edwards, Mass., March 3, 1941 to Liberation on February 3, 1945.
- 2nd Lt. Rita G. Palmer, Liberated By Yank Army
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
February 14, 1945
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
- Hampton Plans For Rita’s Return
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
March 3, 1945
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
- Recruiting
- Lt. Rita G. Palmer & Lt. Helen Cassiani, ANC
Hampton Union, May 3, 1945
- Lt. Rita G. Palmer & Lt. Helen Cassiani, ANC
- Three Years In A Prison Camp
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
May 10, 1945
- The Hampton Union & Rockingham County Gazette
- Separation Record of Rita Glidden Palmer
- b: February 23, 1918 – d: February 14, 2002
- A Tribute To Rita Palmer
- Angels At Bataan
- Manchester Union Leader, June 13, 1999
- ‘It Was Terrible’
- Hampton Union, May 30, 2000
- Service of Remembrance & Thanksgiving for the Life of Rita Palmer James
- First Congregational Church of Hampton — March 2, 2002 — 1:00 PM
- Nursing Memories
- Hampton Union, February 20, 2004
- Remembering Rita
- Atlantic News, February 26, 2004
- 1936 Graduation photographs of four of Rita’s classmates:
- Eleanor Marie (Palmer) [Dennett] Young, Alta Abigail (Gillmore) Kimball, Margaret Thisbe (Noyes) Lovett, Francis Rolly Nownes
- Army Nurse Survived Horrors In Far East
- The Portsmouth Herald, November 11, 1993
- Obituary for Rita Palmer James
- February 23, 1918 – February 14, 2002
Atlantic News, February 21, 2002
- February 23, 1918 – February 14, 2002
- Just A Girl From Hampton
- The Hampton Union
- , October 26, 2007
This “Tribute to Rita G. Palmer”
was presented to
Ansell W. Palmer
compliments of the
Lane Memorial Library
Hampton, New Hampshire.
was presented to
Ansell W. Palmer
compliments of the
Lane Memorial Library
Hampton, New Hampshire.
– February 18, 2004 –
[Compiled by John M. Holman,
Hampton History Volunteer]
[Compiled by John M. Holman,
Hampton History Volunteer]