Interview of Lucile Pauline Matignon Crane on her service as a surgical nurse in the U.S. Navy during WWI

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Description:

Lucile Pauline Matignon Crane talks about her service as a surgical nurse in the U.S. Navy during World War One, between April 1917 and February 1919. Crane says that she graduated from nursing school in 1914 and first worked at Stanford Hospital in San Francisco and that she enlisted in the Navy for good pay, and a chance for more education and equal opportunity. She talks about shipping out to Scotland, working in a surgical unit in a hospital which was a former resort hotel, the types of injuries she treated and socializing with enlisted men because the doctors were off limits. She also says that she was one of the first nurses to be sent home as the war wound down, spent her leave in Paris and was shipped home from Brest with ten women and thousands of men. Crane talks about her career after leaving the Navy, marrying and settling in Modesto, CA and notes that she received no special recognition for her service until the state of California paid a veterans bonus. The interviewer is unidentified.

Date Issued:

1984-12-27T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

France, Paris, and Scotland

Subject Topic:

Knowledge, Nursing, Relations with soldiers, Travel, Family, Recruiting, enlistment, etc, Military life, Nurses, World War, 1914-1918, Veterans, Women veterans, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918, Participation, Female, World War, 1914-1918, Hospitals, Soldiers, Wounds and injuries, and Military pensions

Subject Name:

Crane, Lucile Pauline Matignon, 1892-1988, Crane, Lucile Pauline Matignon, 1892-1988, Crane, Lucile Pauline Matignon, 1892-1988, Crane, Lucile Pauline Matignon, 1892-1988, Crane, Lucile Pauline Matignon, 1892-1988, United States, Navy, United States, and Navy

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Personal narratives, American

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5bh87