Interview of Edna Scott on her service with the American Red Cross in France in 1918 and 1919
Edna Scott talks about her service with the American Red Cross in France in 1918 and 1919. Scott says that she joined the Red Cross in 1918 as a nurse's aide, but soon became a canteen worker and also spent time visiting the injured and sick in hospital. Scott says she has been a member of the Red Cross for over sixty years and helped found the WOSL unit in Kansas City in 1921. She talks about her uniform, puts on her service cap for the interviewers and says that she would do it all over again if she had the chance. Scott is interviewed by Evelyn McHiggins with Jane Piatt and Geneva K. Wiskemann.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1982-07-14
- Interviewees
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Scott, Edna, 1898-1990
- Interviewers
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McHiggins, Evelyn
Piatt, Jane, 1909-1997
Wiskemann, Geneva K.
- Subjects
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Scott, Edna, 1898-1990
American National Red Cross
Women's Overseas Service League
World War (1914-1918)
World War (1939-1945)
Military participation--Female
War work--Red Cross
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:28:41
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 32761
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11760389
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