Naval History and Heritage Command

Finding Aid (PDF, 8KB)

Scope and Content Notes

This collection contains the personal papers of Marion B. Stafford, a nurse with the American Red Cross-Harvard Unit. Ms. Stafford and three other nurses were among the survivors when MIS VIGRID (a Norwegian ship in a British convoy) was torpedoed on 24 June 1941. The collections includes: correspondence, 1 August 1941-28 January 1970; a monograph, "And Now--The Twelfth Night", (undated) of her experience on VIGRID; newspaper accounts of the lifeboat experience (23 July 1941); a Red Cross Commendation (Summer, 1941); miscellaneous hospital documents (undated) relating to treatment/recuperation; and several photographs of Ms. Stafford and friends, 1941.

Preferred Citation

This collection should be cited as Papers of Marion B. Stafford, Archives Branch, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C.

Please see the below collections for addtional nursing related materials:

Artz, Lieutenant Commander Doris M. Papers
Behr, Esther N. Papers  
Bowman, Josephine Beatrice Photo Collection
Colebourn Cannon, Emma Papers
Harris, Nurse Harriet A. Papers 
Leonhardt, Elisabeth Papers
Mackenzie, Anne Photo Collection
McConaha, Navy Nurse Jessie Papers
Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Nurse Corps
Saigon Naval Hospital Photo Collection