Roosje Vecht (VEC4993)

Basic Information

Unique reference:

VEC4993

Other first name:

Rosa

Gender:

Female

Birth

Date of birth:

21 Tammuz 5641 (18 July 1881)

Place of birth:

Elburg, Gelderland, Netherlands

Death

Date of death:

8 Shevat 5675 (23 January 1915)

Died in combat?:

Yes

Cause of death:

Wounds

Burial place:

Originally Adinkerke Mil. Cemetery. Reinterred 2015 Muiderberg Jewish Cemetery

Places

Schools

Name:

Israelitishch Ziekenhuis ( Jewish Hospital), Rotterdam

Year left:

1907

Name:

Bond voor Ziekenverpleging (Dutch Association for Sick Nursing)

Year started:

1908

Name:

Belgian Red Cross

Year started:

1914

Name:

Israelitishch Ziekenhuis ( Jewish Hospital), Rotterdam

Year left:

1907

Name:

Bond voor Ziekenverpleging (Dutch Association for Sick Nursing)

Year started:

1908

Sydney Herald, 1915

NURSE VECHT
-»
A HEROINE OF THE WAR.
'.KILLED BY A BOMB.
Newspapers received by the last English mail bontain lengthy tributes to Nurse Rosa Vecht, niece of the late Mr. Aron Vecht, who resided for a number of years at Lane Cove.
Nurse Vecht met her death while nursing the sick and wounded In the ranks of the allied troops in Belgium, being killed by a shell, dropped from a German aeroplane. Attached to the Belgian field hospital, she was in Antwerp throughout the bombardment of that city, and remained there till a day or two prior to its occupation by the German
troops, when she made her way through Holland to the western front, and was at her post during the terrible battles on the Yser. The following touching letter sent from the hospital at La Panne (Belgium) by Dr. De Paye to Nurse Vecht's relations details the circumstances of her death:-"I am writing to break to you the very sad news that Nurse
Rosa Vecht had the misfortune to be struck by part of a shell dropped by a German aeroplane yesterday morning. Her leg was so seriously Injured that It was found necessary to amputate It from the hip. She never recovered from the shock and from serious loss of blood, and passed away the same night. She had left her hospital that day to look after her luggage, as we were all to evacuate Furnes, where she was killed, during the day. On her way back she stopped at her old hospital to say good-bye to her patients. Just as she left she was' hit by the shell. A doctor was Immediately summoned, and she was taken at once on an ambulance to the hospital here at La Panne, where her leg was amputated, but, as stated above, she never recovered from the shock and loss of blood, and passed away very quickly.
She was so brave and sweet, and one of the last things she said to me was how glad she was that she had said good-bye to 'Mes Malades' before the tragic occurrence. 'Little Sister,' as we often called her, was liked by everyone, and her patients simply loved her. Her whole heart was wrapped up in her work. Her greatest pleasure was to beg for a parcel of socks, or cigarettes, or shirts from the storekeeper at our hospital, and to take them down to the patients. Everything possible was done to try to save her life, eight expert surgeons being present at the operation."
Nurse Vecht. was buried at Ardenkerke with military honours.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15580956

All research by Lola Fraser

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Vecht trained as a nurse at the Israëlitisch Ziekenhuis (Jewish Hospital) in Rotterdam. She earned her license in 1907, and joined the Nederlandsche Bond voor Ziekenverpleging (Dutch Association for Sick Nursing) in 1908. In 1914 she joined the Belgian Red Cross, and worked at the British field hospital at Veurne.[2] Marie Curie worked at the same hospital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Vecht

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