 Dr. Louise Tayler Jones, of Washington, D. C, on Grouitch's request, volunteered to proceed to Serbia as medical director and organize the hospital, and Dr. Catherine Travis, of New Britain, Connecticut, was appointed assistant.Maud Metcalf and Grace Utley, two American Red Cross nurses, were assigned to duty as the nursing personnel of the hospital.In the middle of the war, Dr Jones and Dr Travis sailed on the steamship "Vasilefs Constantinos", to Greece, reaching Piraeus on 19 July and Athens on 4 August.From there, they proceeded to Niš, the temporary capital of Serbia, which they reached 10 August.