Louisa Jordan

Louisa Jordan (1878 to 1915) was a Scottish nurse from the Maryhill area of Glasgow who died in service during the First World War. She began nursing at Quarrier's Homes, a sanatorium at Bridge of Weir, then worked at Shotts Fever Hospital and spent five years at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester, where she became sister in charge of a ward. She later worked as a Queen Victoria Jubilee nurse at Strathaven and as a district nurse at Buckhaven in Fife. In December 1914 she enlisted with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service and joined the first Serbian unit, treating wounded soldiers at Kragujevac. During the typhus epidemic of early 1915 she took charge of the new typhus ward, volunteered to treat a dying colleague, and herself died of the disease in March 1915. She is buried at the Nis Commonwealth Military Cemetery, and in 2020 the emergency COVID-19 hospital in Glasgow, NHS Louisa Jordan, was named after her.