Appendices
Sources
What I’ve written in this article is based primarily on these two sources:
- Contributions of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in World War I co-authored 2014 by Col. Elizabeth Vane, Army Nurse Corps Historian, and Sanders Marble, Senior Historian, Office of Medical History, US Army Medical Command
Note that this article can be read online at https://e-anca.org/History/Topics-in-ANC-History/Contributions-of-the-US-Army-Nurse-Corps-in-WWI
- Abstracts of World War I Military Service for Army Nurses, a collection of index card records, as illustrated by the examples included in the body of this article
Discrepancies
It is common for different sources to present statistics about this topic that seem to disagree, especially with regard to the number of wartime deaths of Nurses. As noted earlier, such disagreement may stem from failure to disentangle Red Cross and ANC nurses, but there may be other reasons. Phrases like “died in the War” and “died as a result of enemy action” can have very different implications. A nurse who died of influenza at one of the huge, jam-packed Army training posts certainly died in service to her country during the war, but she did not technically die as the result of enemy action. A nurse who died in France when an ambulance crashed after hitting a crater left by German artillery could be said to have died in an accident – but that accident was the direct result of enemy action.
Sources of Images
- Photo of War Memorial boulder in its original location: old postcard listed for sale on ebay.com
- 1916 ARC Recruiting Poster: ebay.com
- Abstracts of Service Records: Ancestry.com
- Lounge at Debarkation Hospital #3: Library of Congress (I think)
- Hicksville’s Biggest Day: Huntington Long-Islander, July 11, 1919
- Grave Markers: findagrave.com
- Photo of Private Frank Kowalinski (below): Soldiers of the Great War, Volume 2 (accessed via Google Books)
