Background:

Elvira López Mourín was a professional and military nurse who was part of the first promotion of professional nurses of the Spanish Red Cross. She moved to the Melilla Hospital to meet the health demands of the Rif War. Her participation in the act of the first Spanish sanitary flight made her news in the media of the time and has allowed her figure to be recovered. Her professional career was lost after 1933 when she joined the Army's Junior Auxiliary Corps as a nurse at the Madrid Emergency Military Hospital.

Purpose:

to determine the course and professional end of the nurse Elvira López Mourín.

Methods:

A bibliographic review was carried out in the available electronic and library media. Documentation of his years of service was requested from the main historical archives. Interviews were conducted with three informants and residents of Elvira's hometown who had known her.

Results:

Elvira López Mourín provided her services as a professional and military nurse in the Subordinate Auxiliary Corps of the Army until 1939, when she was subjected to a War Council, under the government of the Franco dictatorship, from which she was acquitted of all charges. As of May 12, 1940, she rejoined the Subordinate Auxiliary Corps of the Army, providing her services at the Emergency Military Hospital in Madrid until September 4, 1958, when she retired.

Conclusion:

the act that commemorates Elvira López Mourín is her successful participation in the first medical flight mission in Spain. During her professional career, she worked as a nurse in Melilla and as part of the Subordinate Auxiliary Corps of the Army at the Madrid Emergency Military Hospital. She retired at the age of 65 in 1958 and worked as a nurse during the reign of Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia and the Rif War, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the government of the Second Republic, the Civil War, and the government of the Franco dictatorship.

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