Rosa Vecht

[2] 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.

[3][4] Vecht died in 1915, aged 33 years, when she was fatally injured by shrapnel at Veurne in West Flanders, while saying goodbye before a planned evacuation.

In 2015, to mark the 100th anniversary of her death, Vecht was remembered in a ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres.