Tag: International Nurses Day

Fighting Women of Fighting Men

Nurse and Director of American Red Cross Canteen Services Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt speaks with two soldiers at an American field hospital in France. Taken from the January 24, 1918 issue of the Perth Amboy evening news.

In 1918 and the world was engulfed in two extraordinary conflicts. War raged through Europe and a complicated web of treaties and mutual defense pacts resulted in countries across the globe fighting for one side or another. Simultaneously a pandemic…