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Scottish nurse killed in WW1 honoured with flag-flying above US Capitol building

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An American flag flown over the US Capitol building in honour of a Scottish nurse killed in 1917 has been sent to her home town to mark Remembrance Day.

Helen Burnett Wood, one of the first members of an American unit killed during the First World War, will be commemorated during a special service at Northesk Parish Church in Musselburgh, East Lothian.

Helen was the daughter of John S and Francis Wood of Mall Avenue and is named on the church's war memorial along with her younger brother, William.He was killed while serving with the 5th Royal Scots at Gallipoli in 1915.Born in 1888, Helen emigrated to Evanston near Chicago in Illinois in 1909, when she was 21, and worked as a telephone operator for a spell before training to be a nurse.

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