The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Reserve Nurse Marie Louise Hidell, United States Navy (Reserve Force), for distinguished service and devotion to duty while serving at the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the epidemic of influenza, Reserve Nurse Hidell worked day and night among the patients until stricken with the disease, as a result of which she lost her life on 28 September 1918.