North Dakota nurses over there, 1917-1919 /
Holmes, Grace E. F.
North Dakota nurses over there, 1917-1919 / Grace Elinor Foege Holmes ; foreword by Arla Roth. - 294 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
The quality of mercy -- War: American nursing and medical response -- Who were the North Dakota nurses? -- Before the war -- Representative background stories of enlistees -- Settling in stateside hospitals -- Sailing to France -- Nurses are sometimes also patients -- The influenza epidemic -- Nursing in war-torn France is different -- Brave boys and caring nurses -- The sisterhood of nurses -- Remembering our dead -- The armistice -- Medals and honors -- Aftermath of the Great War -- We were different women -- In memoriam -- Reflections -- End notes -- Bibliography -- Nurse roster and index of page numbers.
When we think of women in the military, we tend to think of the modern day soldier in her fatigues and combat boots. We tend to forget that we had women in the military a hundred years ago. Then they wore an entirely different uniform: the uniform of a nurse. The 225 women who tell their own stories here enlisted in the first World War from the state of North Dakota. Fifty-five of those were recent immigrants. They all put their lives at risk to comfort and heal the sick and wounded in hospital throughout the United States as well as near the front lines in Europe. They not only cared for wounded and dying soldiers but those from all walks of life struck down by the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918.
9781366242297 1366242297
Nurses--North Dakota--Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.
World War, 1914-1918--Nurses.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Female.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
North Dakota nurses over there, 1917-1919 / Grace Elinor Foege Holmes ; foreword by Arla Roth. - 294 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
The quality of mercy -- War: American nursing and medical response -- Who were the North Dakota nurses? -- Before the war -- Representative background stories of enlistees -- Settling in stateside hospitals -- Sailing to France -- Nurses are sometimes also patients -- The influenza epidemic -- Nursing in war-torn France is different -- Brave boys and caring nurses -- The sisterhood of nurses -- Remembering our dead -- The armistice -- Medals and honors -- Aftermath of the Great War -- We were different women -- In memoriam -- Reflections -- End notes -- Bibliography -- Nurse roster and index of page numbers.
When we think of women in the military, we tend to think of the modern day soldier in her fatigues and combat boots. We tend to forget that we had women in the military a hundred years ago. Then they wore an entirely different uniform: the uniform of a nurse. The 225 women who tell their own stories here enlisted in the first World War from the state of North Dakota. Fifty-five of those were recent immigrants. They all put their lives at risk to comfort and heal the sick and wounded in hospital throughout the United States as well as near the front lines in Europe. They not only cared for wounded and dying soldiers but those from all walks of life struck down by the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918.
9781366242297 1366242297
Nurses--North Dakota--Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.
World War, 1914-1918--Nurses.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Female.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.