Elza Medeiros

Quick Facts

Intro

Brazilian Army officer

Places

Brazil

was

Nurse Military personnel

Work field

Healthcare Military

Gender

Female

Birth

21 October 1921 People who share this birthday

Death

8 December 2009 People who died on this day

Place of death

Rio de Janeiro

Age

88 years

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Elza Cansanção Medeiros or Major Elza (October 21, 1921- December 8, 2009) was a Brazilian Army officer and World War II veteran. She was the highest-ranking female officer in the Brazilian Army with the rank of Major. She went to Italy during the war along with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force as a nurse.
She used to lecture about the Brazilian participation in World War II.
Elza Cansanção Medeiros died on December 8, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro.[1]

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