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Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I (1991) Wagner, Nancy O'Brien. "Awfully Busy These Days: Red Cross Women in France during World War I." Minnesota History 63#1 (2012): 24–35. online; Zeiger, Susan. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 (Cornell UP, 1999).
The Red Cross Hostess and Hospital Service and Recreation Corps, [2] known as "Gray Ladies", started in 1918 at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., providing services for war patients. [3] Their name came from their signature uniform of a gray dress and veil. [3]
Margaret Hall (1876 – 1963) was a volunteer for the American Red Cross during World War I and a photographer who captured images of the conflict. Margaret Hall was a native of Newton, Massachusetts. She was from an affluent family and later inherited and ran her father's woolen mill. [1]
MacDonald received the Distinguished Service Cross from the United States Congress on February 27, 1919, making her the first woman to receive the award and one of only three women during World War I. [5] [9] Other awards at the time for her heroism included the French Croix de Guerre (Bronze), the British Military Medal for gallantry, the British Royal Red Cross (Second Class) medal, and the ...
Red Cross Motor Corps (1917) American Red Cross Motor Corps (also known as American Red Cross Motor Service) was founded in 1917 by the American Red Cross (ARC). [1] The service was composed of women and it was developed to render supplementary aid to the U.S. Army and Navy in transporting troops and supplies during World War I, and to assist other ARC workers in conducting their various ...
Waldo Peirce, American Red Cross volunteer (1918, for courage during the Vosges Hills Battle) Isabel Weld Perkins, for Red Cross volunteer work. Thomas A. Pope 1918 Corporal, U.S. Army; also earned the U.S. Army Medal of Honor, the British Distinguished Conduct Medal, and the Médaille militaire, for bravery displayed in Hamel, France.
The original black and white photographs were painstakingly colourised to mark the World War One centenary.
American women never served in combat roles (as did some Russians), but many were eager to serve as nurses and support personnel in uniform. [69] During the course of the war, 21,498 U.S. Army nurses (American military nurses were all women then) served in military hospitals in the United States and overseas.