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Title

Forsaken angels : in their own words : the personnel of the Chicago/Northwestern University Unit, U.S. Army Base Hospital 12, World War I, 1916-1919 / edited by Michael W.R. Davis.

Publication

• Traverse City, MI : Mission Point Press, [2017]
• Columbia, SC : [printer not identified], 31 May 2017
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Davis, Michael W. R., 1931-

Description

xvi, 257 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles; 29 cm

Summary

Includes correspondence of the editor's mother, Laura G. Huckleberry, nurse with the U.S. Army Base Hospital 12, in Etaples, France, to his father, John Erle Davis, who also served in France, as well as some letters by Davis; supplemented by memoir/diary entries by George R. Baker and Dr. M. Pinson Neal, also at U.S. Army Base Hospital 12.

Alternative Title

• Personnel of the Chicago/Northwestern University Unit, U.S. Army Base Hospital 12, World War I, 1916-1919
• Forsaken angels: in their own words

Subject

• Huckleberry, Laura Gertrude, 1888-1962
• Davis, John Erle, 1887-1985
• Baker, George R., 1892-1962
• Neal, M. Pinson
• United States. Army. Base Hospital No. 12 > History
• Illinois Training School for Nurses > Alumni and alumnae
• Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) > Alumni and alumnae
• Illinois Training School for Nurses
• Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
• 1914-1918
• World War, 1914-1918 > Hospitals > History. > France
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American
• Nurses > United States > Correspondence
• Nurses > United States > Diaries
• Medical personnel > United States > Diaries
• Nurses > Illinois > Chicago
• Medical personnel > Illinois > Chicago
• Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Hôpitaux > Histoire. > France
• Infirmières > États-Unis > Correspondance
• Infirmières > États-Unis > Journaux intimes
• Personnel médical > États-Unis > Journaux intimes
• Infirmières > Illinois > Chicago
• Personnel médical > Illinois > Chicago
• Armed Forces > Medical personnel
• Armed Forces > Nurses
• Hospitals
• Medical personnel
• Nurses
• Universities and colleges > Alumni and alumnae
• United States > Armed Forces > Nurses > Correspondence
• United States > Armed Forces > Nurses > Diaries
• United States > Armed Forces > Medical personnel > Diaries
• France
• Illinois > Chicago
• United States

Genre/Form

• Diaries.
• History.
• Personal narratives – American.
• Personal correspondence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 237).

Contents

• Preface -- 1. Historical introduction -- 2. Biographical notes -- 3. The back story : U.S. declaration of war and base hospitals. -- The first year : May 17, 1917 to May 15, 1918 : diaries, memoirs, news reports and letters. 4. Called to duty. The nurses -- The university men -- Troop train and New York City -- Dangerous journey and Chicago's first war casualties -- The Mongolia incident -- Submarine duel -- England and wartime sightseeing. -- 5. Eagerness to drudgery. Welcome to Dannes-Camier, Pas-de-Calais, France--and censorship -- Summer 1917 : U.S. Base Hospital 12 replaces British General -- The New World meets Old Europe -- Air raids, troop mutinies and routine -- Fall 1917, October-December : war, wards and weather -- Reinforcements arrive -- The cross-Atlantic mail lag -- Weariness, wounded and infections -- Winter 1918, January-March : no end in sight -- The nurses rebel helplessly -- Winter battle respite -- First leave and sightseeing in Paris -- Spring 1918, March-May : German "big push" threatens -- Something in the air -- The sweethearts disconnect -- German spring offensive nears -- The war wears on. --
• The second year : May 18, 1918 to May 18, 1919. 6. End in sight and post-armistice. Spring 1918, May 17-June -- German air raids continue -- Summer 1918, July-September -- Americans in force and the tide turns -- Chicago Base Hospital 11 to Nantes, Loire, France -- Second leave : to the Alps -- The final Allied push begins -- Fall 1918 and Armistice, October-November 11 -- Rumors amidst overflowing wards -- Influenza epidemic -- Armistice as anticlimax -- November 1918-February 1919 -- Peace and longing -- The sweethearts celebrate -- Patient load finally declines, along with morale -- BEF General Hospital 18 closes, U.S. Army Base Hospital 12 departs -- March-April 1919 : forsaken angels -- Stolen moments -- The nurses again forsaken -- Their returning glory missed. -- 7. Epilogue. -- 8. Acknowledgments. -- 9. Editorial notes, bibliography and sources. --
• 10. Appendices. Diary of Reserve Nurse Laura Huckleberry, May 17 - June 13, 1917 -- Biographical notes on key persons in narrative -- Quasi-public roles of private organizations -- American Red Cross as U.S. Army Medical Corps Reserve -- Prologue: Nurse May Connard's adventures -- Roster of Base Hospital 12 officers and nurses, May 1917 -- Roster of nurse reinforcements, October 1917 -- Roster of BH 12 command, April 2, 1919 -- Illinois Training School for Nurses -- The S. S. Mongolia -- Wartime poetry and verse.

ISBN

• 9781943995271
• 1943995273

LCCN

2017905330

OCLC

• on1004680244
• SCSB-14656064

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library