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Homer Greenfield at Walter Reed Army Hospital (WRAMC DPW 09-4944-1), National Museum of Health and Medicine

Description: Walter Reed Army Hospital's 50th Anniversary. Standing on the walk in front of Walter Reed's main entrance, Homer Greenfield smilingly recalls that he was the hospital's first, though unofficial, patient. He had been hunting strawberries and cut his finger rather badly on some barbed wire. Running to the hospital for help, he collapsed near the front steps. A hospital corpsman took him into the freshly prepared operating room and repaired his finger. At that time the hospital had not been officially opened. He was a patient a second time, this time officially, when he returned from France with shell fragments in his leg and suffering from poison gas effects. Later on, he spent a short time as head of the Quartermaster Commissary.

Date: 1 May 1959

Photo ID: WRAMC DPW 09-4994-1

Source collection: OHA 233.05: Medical Illustration Service Library, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Garrison Directorate of Public Works Archive

Repository: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives

Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution image requests should be directed to the NMHM (<a href="http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/" rel="nofollow">www.medicalmuseum.mil/</a>)

[Portraits.] [Scene.] [Walter Reed General Hospital (Washington, D.C.). Walter Reed Army Medical Center. WRAMC.] Folder 54 : Main Section, Personnel and Events, Personnel. w/0 414; Credit: Walter Reed Army Medical Center Garrison Directorate of Public Works Archive.