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| Gates to Suresnes American Cemetery |
Here I begin a series about my travels to research a novel about the American women who volunteered to go abroad and nurse American Doughboys during the Great War, or as we now call it World War One!
A few of our women are buried abroad. If you go to Paris, do go to the American Cemetery high above the Seine at Suresnes. Situated just near a school Napoleon founded, this cemetery is land given to the United States to bury our dead after that war.
The families of these women—just as those of our men—were asked if they wished the bodies of their loved ones sent home or buried in the soil where they died.
Here are graves of four women whose families chose to have them remain. In this beautiful setting above the Seine, where one can see the Eiffel Tower and the flowing river, lie our national heroines. They bear their full names, hospital assignment, state they were from and date of their deaths. (These are my pictures taken in 2016.)
For more information about my research into World War One, medical care, and Army Nurse Corps, do visit my other blog: http://theyalsofought.blogspot.com
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| Marian Henrietta White, Nurse, American Red Cross, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1918 |
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| Katherine Dent, Nurse, Base Hospital 24, ANC Louisiana, June 16, 1918 |
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| Lucy N. Fletcher, Nurse, Base Hospital 6, ANC May 6, 1918 |
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| Nellie M. Dingley, Nurse, Camp Hospital 4, ANC New York, August 28, 1918. |
