Attached is an interesting history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the First World War. The author, Robert Ginsburgh, delves into how many nurses were killed, how the nurses were recruited, where they served throughout Europe, their training and the decorations earned.
“The most coveted assignment of the nurses was duty with the forward teams. They had to be ready to go to the front at any moment to serve with surgical, shock or gas teams, and only those of outstanding professional attainments could even be considered… The Allies awarded the American nurses many decorations, including not only those singled out by the War Department, but a number of others for meritorious service in the advanced zones. The British honored about 90 nurses and the French more than 100 in the AEF; Rumania, Belgium, Greece, and Russia also decorated a few.”
Pictured above is Major Julia Stimson as she was decorated by Gerneral Pershing.
Click here to read about the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Second World War.
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KEY WORDS: Major Julia Stimson Director of Nursing Service AEF 1917 – 1919,Major Julia Stimson Distinguished Service Cross medal WW1,Jane Delano Nursing Service AEF 1917 – 1919,camp Sevier South Carolina during WW1,Camp Pike Arkansas African-American Nurses AEF 1917-1919,Camp Sherman African-American Nurses AEF 1917-1919,Camp Grant African-American Nurses AEF 1917-1919,Marie B Rhodes AEF Nurses in France 1917-1919,Annie W Goodrich Chief Nurse US Army School of Nursing,Grace E Leonard Assistant Director of Nursing Service in WW1 England,WW I women who were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross medal 1918 – 1919,Alice H Flash Chief of Nursing at the Mesves Hospital 1918,Dora E Thompson Superintendent of the Nurse Corps USA,United States Base Hospital No 10 in Italy 1918-1919,20 American nurses dispatched to Vladivostok Russia summer 1918,Alma E Foerster American Red Cross 1917-1919,Beatrice M Gosling American Red Cross 1917-1919,Nurse Jane Jeffrey wounded at US Army hospital Jouy Sur-Morin France 1918,Nurse Jane Jeffrey awarded Distinguished Service Cross 1918,US Army Nurse Helen Fairchild,US Army Nurse Helen Grace McCelland of Base Hospital No 10 France
