[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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors: Davis, Estelle M. (Interviewee)
Collet, Lois (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Davis, Estelle M. > Interviews.
American National Red Cross > Interviews.
Davis, Estelle M. > Family.
American National Red Cross.
Nurses > Interviews.
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1914-1918 > Participation, Female.
World War, 1914-1918 > Hospitals > France > Verdun.
World War, 1914-1918 > Medical care.
Military nursing > France > Verdun.
Nursing > New Jersey > Jersey City.
Families.
Hospitals.
Medical care.
Military nursing.
Military participation > Female.
Nurses.
Nursing.
France > Verdun.
New Jersey > Jersey City.
1914-1918
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Personal narratives > American.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives, American.
Oral histories.
Personal narratives
American.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (22 min., 5 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software
Description
Summary:
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.
Note:Title supplied.
Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project.
Digitized by the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries.
Call Number:Voice 32871
DB32871 cassette
Playing Time:00:22:05
Participant or Performer:
Interviewee, Estelle M. Davis ; interviewer, Lois Collet.
Event Details:
Recorded 1982 October 23