Abridged from The British Journal of Nursing 15 December 1917

On Wednesday afternoon, December 5th, Miss Walter Hines Page presented Miss Eleanor Scott, late Matron of the American Women’s War Hospital at Paignton, with a gold watch, “In grateful recognition of her devoted services to sick and wounded British soldiers at the American Women’s War Hospital.” Miss Scott was a member of one of the American Red Cross Units sent to Great Britain in 1914; and was a Sister at the American Women’s War Hospital, from November 1st 1914, until September 1916, when she was appointed Matron, leaving only to take up duty in France.