Group of three to Nurse Agnes C. Shore, American Red Cross

Group of three to Nurse Agnes C. Shore, American Red Cross: World War I Victory Medal, clasp “France”; Pennsylvania World War I Service Medal, “National Guard” obverse; Pennsylvania Gilberton World War I Service Medal, engraved “Agnes C. Shore” on the top bar.

Agnes C. Shore was born in 1885 and attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, graduating in 1907. She went to France in September 1918. After the war, she was the superintendent of nurses of the Montgomery Hospital, Norristown, PA, and directress of nursing at the Coaldale Hospital (1930). Shore died 1 June 1964 in Philadelphia. Her death certificate lists her birth date as 1894.