Interview of Estelle M. Davis on her service as a Red Cross nurse during WWI

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Description:

Estelle M. Davis explains why she enlisted as a Red Cross nurse during World War One and describes her experiences. She reminisces about being a public health nurse in Jersey City, her family's reaction to her enlistment, and being shipped across the Atlantic to Calais with 350 fellow nurses. Davis recounts the awful food and the terrible conditions under which staff had to perform surgery, while serving only 50 miles from the front at Verdun. She says that she met her future husband when treating him for a shrapnel wound at her aid station. Davis is interviewed by Lois Collet.

Date Issued:

1982-10-23T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

France, Verdun, France, Verdun, New Jersey, and Jersey City

Subject Topic:

Family, Nurses, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918, Participation, Female, World War, 1914-1918, Hospitals, World War, 1914-1918, Medical care, Military nursing, and Nursing

Subject Name:

Davis, Estelle M., Davis, Estelle M., and American National Red Cross

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Personal narratives, American

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5rx36