Amelia Peabody Tileston

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Amelia Peabody Tileston died of pneumonia in Belgrade, Serbia at the Scottish Women's Hospital, on February 22, 1920.

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World War I When World War I began, in August 1914, Tileston felt the urgent call to help to relieve the suffering which ensued, and she went in October to England, where she worked for a month in the Anglo-American Hospital in Paignton, Devonshire, doing night-duty, but she found it was abundantly supplied with nurses. Then, having been joined by Miss Belyea, she did relief work for Belgian refugees in London and Paris, but found both places overcrowded with workers. They went to Italy in January 1915, and the disastrous earthquake occurred a week after they reached Rome. They wanted to help in the ravaged districts, but could not obtain permission to do so. While they were in Rome, they were told of the great suffering and need in Serbia, where typhus fever had been raging for a number of weeks. They went there early in February, hoping to be of real assistance, but circumstances beyond their control obliged them to give up their undertaking. They went to Athens next, having letters to Eleftherios Venizelos, through whom they hoped to find useful work to do, but his ministry fell the very day they landed at the Piræus. Queen Sophia heard…Citește mai mult

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Awards Tileston was awarded the Order of St. Sava, Third Degree by the Serbian government in recognition of the service rendered the Serbian Army. She was the first woman, not a Serbian, to whom the third degree of the order was awarded. Just before her death, Tileston was presented the Serbian Gold War Medal and the Order of St Sava, Fifth Degree, for her work at the front.

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Amelia Peabody Tileston (1872–1920) was an American Red Cross worker in Serbia during World War I. She organized and conducted free canteens in the Serbian Army from her own personal funds. She was the first woman, not a Serbian, to whom the Order of St. Sava (third degree) was awarded.

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Early life and education Amelia Peabody Tileston was born on October 30, 1872, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She was the third daughter, fourth of the seven children, of John Boies Tileston and Mary Wilder (Foote) Tileston. When she was two years old, her father bought a farm in Concord, Massachusetts, where the family lived for eight years. It was a milk farm of 200 acres (81 ha), on the slope of Punkatasset Hill, running down to the Concord River, and it gave the children the freedom and varied interests of country life. After 1882, when the farm was sold, they lived for a few years in Salem, Massachusetts and then in Brookline, Massachusetts where Tileston enjoyed the companionship of other children, which she had not had before. In Brookline, she went to Miss Baker's school, and then, from Milton, Massachusetts, to which town the family moved in 1889, she went to St. Agnes' School in Albany, New York for a year, and, afterwards, to Miss Folsom's School in Boston. She made her first trip to Europe in 1895, and went abroad many times afterward. She was especially fond of Italy, and of Cortina, in the Tyrol, where she took long walks…Citește mai mult

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Early in 1903, she took a three months' training course in nursing in subacute and chronic cases, under Miss Isabel Strong. The practical part was given at the bedside, in the Roxbury and South Boston districts, most of it among the very poor; and a very wide range of cases was given this particular class. Among those whom she nursed were some whom she visited and helped to the end of her life. In 1905 and 1907, she worked in Day Camps for tuberculous patients. The first Day Camp in America for these was opened in July, 1905, on Parker Hill, under the auspices of the Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis, in charge of Dr. David Townsend. Tileston continued her visits at the Day Camp through the season, which ended in October. In the third year of the Camp, from June 1907, to February 1908, at the Mattapan Hospital, Tileston assisted in building and keeping up the morale of the Camp, making frequent and regular visits. She brought many articles, sweaters, mufflers, toys and books, and 20 pounds of candy. Her sympathy for and interest in the welfare of the patients, especially the children, helped to…Citește mai mult