English nurses in WW1
Replies: 3
Re: English nurses in WW1
Hi Ted,
I don't have specifics for you, but American Nurses did serve overseas during WW1. My grandmother Rena Wilhelmina Ahrens (1893-1989)was one of them. She originally joined the Red Cross Nurse Corps, and at some point during the war the Red Cross Nurses became the Army Nurse Corps.
My grandmother never got to France. The troopship she went over on was hit hard by the influenza pandemic and the French refused to let them land at Brest. She spent the rest of the war at a manor house on the "English Riveria", in Paignton, nursing sick and injured soldiers. She was quite a shutterbug, and I have her collection of black and white negatives from the period, which I have scanned. The collection includes images from Camp Devens, MA, England, and the return voyage aboard 'Mauretania' in late 1918.
Dianne in ct
I don't have specifics for you, but American Nurses did serve overseas during WW1. My grandmother Rena Wilhelmina Ahrens (1893-1989)was one of them. She originally joined the Red Cross Nurse Corps, and at some point during the war the Red Cross Nurses became the Army Nurse Corps.
My grandmother never got to France. The troopship she went over on was hit hard by the influenza pandemic and the French refused to let them land at Brest. She spent the rest of the war at a manor house on the "English Riveria", in Paignton, nursing sick and injured soldiers. She was quite a shutterbug, and I have her collection of black and white negatives from the period, which I have scanned. The collection includes images from Camp Devens, MA, England, and the return voyage aboard 'Mauretania' in late 1918.
Dianne in ct