Nancy Malloy

Nancy Malloy (6 October 1945 – 17 December 1996) was a medical administrator and nurse for the British Columbian branch of the Canadian Red Cross. She participated in various international missions that took place at remote hospitals, often in dangerous areas. On 17 December 1996 she was murdered together with five of her colleagues when on a mission in Chechnya, Russia. Posthumously, she was awarded both the Florence Nightingale Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal.

Life Born in Brockville, Ontario, on 6 October 1945, she studied at the KGH School of Nursing She joined the local Red Cross branch in 1987. Belgrade (1993), close to Grozny, the capital of the Chechnya region. On 17 December 1996, when the mission had been running for two and a half months, armed men entered the sleeping quarters of the hospital and shot and killed Malloy, together with five of her coworkers. However, witnesses had claimed soon after the event that they had heard the attackers speaking Chechen, and that the Red Cross staff had been directly targeted. As well, she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal by the ICRC, In addition, Queen's University's school of nursing administers the Nancy Malloy Memorial Award, handed out by her friends and classmates.