Hilda von Hahn

Activity of the nurses

"Many nurses had acquired the professional experience during the World War I, others were students of medicine or had attended courses of the Red Cross. Many of these nurses involved in the War of Independence were located in different medical institutions that admitted wounded and ill soldiers, for instance, in the hospitals of the Latvian Red Cross, War Hospital of Latvia (later – Riga), ambulances of divisions and garrisons, regiment ambulances, first aid stations of subordinate units, in the 1st Ambulance Train, and elsewhere. On 16 December 1919 the largest military medicine institution of Latvia, the War Hospital of Latvia, had 294 employees, 29 of which were the nurses. Besides the nurses, there were also other female employees in the hospital – the doctor Elizabete Krigere (Elizabete Krīgere) (deceased later due to typhus contracted when performing work duties), kitchen workers, etc.24 In most cases the nurses were young women from different social classes and of different nationalities; first they were Latvians, but there were also Russians, Germans, Jewesses, Estonians, etc.25 Also, women from different social classes, even aristocrats, became nurses. For example, at Ludza garrison ambulance (former ambulance of the Landeswehr), there were nurses of noble origin working as well – Helene von Knorre, Elizabeth von Hirschheydt, Ingeborg von Rannenkampf, Inga von Minkvic and the baronesses Gertrud von Engelhardt and Hilda von Hahn." 

Source: https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/5711/files/2018/12/15.-Gile.pdf