“Devotion to Duty: Memorializing Jane Delano” Saturday, Jan. 31, 4 p.m. (via Zoom)
Published: 23 January 2026
via the Arlingtyon National Cemetery website
Jane Delano frames
Jane Delano, U.S. Army (1862-1919) — A distant relative of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jane Delano served as superintendent of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1909 to 1912, and in 1909 founded the American Red Cross Nursing Service. By the outbreak of World War I, the American Red Cross Nursing Service had more than 8,000 registered and trained nurses ready for emergency response. Delano was on a Red Cross mission in France when she died in 1919; her last words reportedly were, "I must get back to my work." She was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and reinterred a year later in the "Nurses' Section" of the Arlington National Cemetery.
Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein
ANC Senior Historian Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein will be leading a public webinar for the Army Nurse Corps Association (ANCA). This free webinar is being hosted by the ANCA and is open to any member of the public.
Buried in Section 21 of Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), Jane Delano was an influential superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps during its formative years. Delano also devoted herself to the American Red Cross, and her leadership proved pivotal during World War I. Her death on duty in France in 1919 devastated the American nursing community, who commemorated her in multiple ways at ANC and beyond. In honor of the 125th anniversary of the Army Nurse Corps, this webinar will explore Delano’s service and legacy—and highlight ANC’s role as a sacred site for the military nursing community.
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