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Mabel Grouitch

1888 – 1956

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Mabel Grouitch (née Dunlop; August 13, 1872 or August 13, 1881 – August 13, 1956) was an American archeologist, philanthropist and voluntary nurse with the Red Cross in Serbia, during the two Balkan wars and World War I. Grouitch started working on relief efforts during the Balkan Wars, establishing the Mabel Grouitch Baby Hospital in Macedonia. As secretary-general of the Serbian Foreign Office, her husband Slavko Grujić received the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia in 1914. Following the invasion of Serbia by the Central Powers she evaded across the Albanian highlands with the Serbian Ar