Interview of Estelle M. Davis on her service as a Red Cross nurse during WWI
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.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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1982-10-23
- Interviewees
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Davis, Estelle M.
- Interviewers
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Collet, Lois
- Subjects
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Davis, Estelle M.
American National Red Cross
World War (1914-1918)
Families
Hospitals
Medical care
Military nursing
Military participation--Female
Nurses
Nursing
France--Verdun
New Jersey--Jersey City
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:22:05
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 32871
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11747927
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