Frauen im Ersten Weltkrieg

Antoinette Delbé was born in 1894 in Nancy. In June 1915, she received the war nurse's diploma issued by the Board of Directors of the Union of Women of France. She was then sent to the military hospitals of Mailly-le-Camp, Troyes and Mesgrigny. On De…

My great-grandfather Clonţău Gheorghe fought in the First World War on the western front, being enlisted in the 64th Orastie Battalion throughout the four years of the war. Although he returned home from the war, he died shortly afterwards due to wounds a…

Nurse during the war (maternal great-aunt of the applicant). Neither the information provided by the contributor, nor the subsequent research carried out by the Departmental Archives service has made it possible to establish the course of this soldier dur…

I am a volunteer at Attingham Park, a National Trust property in Shropshire. I became fascinated by the life of Teresa, the 8th Lady Berwick and jumped at the chance to research her role during the First World War. It was a daunting and very exciting task…

Eileen M. Sheehan, Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, was born 1897 as eldest daughter of RMF Captain DD Sheehan MP. She joined the VAD organisation in 1916 and served as nurse and ambulance driver on the front. Attached to the 14th Military and Genera…

The autograph book of Georgina May Hill; a nurse who asked for the autographs of the wounded soldiers in her care. She served in France and the Southern General Hospital in Birmingham (1915) and General Hospital, Trouville (1918).; A collection of photogr…

Léa ROUSSEAUX was deported as a hostage to the HOLZMINDEN camp from January to July 1818, when she was the mother of 3 young children (7, 6 and 4 years old). Her husband Georges TOURY being mobilized as a soldier, she had to entrust the care of their 3 ch…

Gruppe leitender Damen der Wiener Gesellschaft auf dem Nordbahnhof.

Elly Schencking und ihre jüngere Schwester Maria Schencking waren im Krieg als Rotkreuzschwestern in Rumänien eingesetzt. Vgl. auch den Beitrag "Brüder Max und Franz Schencking in Uniform"; 4 Fotos. 3 aus dem Einsatz, eines ein Porträt mit d…

Lolla von Haas immigrated to Mozirje before the First World War, after the death of her husband, the Austrian diplomat Josef von Haas, in Shanghai. In the photo, she is sitting on the left, Angela Goričar from Mozir is sitting on the right. In the back ar…

Louise JAYNE born March 2, 1897, died September 9, 1982, was one of my maternal great-aunts. She worked at the Pyrotechnics weapons factory in La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var). During the war, she wrote to her beloved Auguste Virgile LONGINOTTI. It was a love corre…

Urkunde mit dem Text – "Sammlung von Goldschmuck – Fräulein Olga Rammenstein hat, um den Goldschatz der Reichsbank und damit die finanzielle Wehrkraft unseres deutschen Vaterlandes zu stärken, Schmucksachen im Goldwerte von M 18.90 gegen Vergütung ab…

Black and white photograph belonging to a family photograph album. Marguerite is seated on the left.; Front

In the attached transcript, Bill Christmas shares his family's Great War experiences through the perspective of his mother Bella. A young suffragette, Bella had recently returned to her native Scotland from America when War broke out, soon becoming a …

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A photograph of Mac, Hutchings and McDougall, nurses at the Somerville Section, 3rd Southern General Hospital

sister Antonia Sikora was born on December 22, 1886 in Łuszków, commune Krzywiń, her secular name is Viktoria. She was one of ten children of Piotr and Józefa, née Owsianna. Katowice, and then to Gliwice. There, from 1912 she worked as a nurse in a milita…

Hermann Grieswald, wurde 1896 im ostpreußischen Wiersbau (bei Soldau) geboren. Vor dem Krieg arbeitete er auf dem Bauernhof seiner Familie. Am 10.08.1916 schrieb seine Mutter Berta an ihre Schwester Marie Pawlitzki, dass Hermann am 16.07.1916 verwundet wu…

Freie Vorführung der Bereitung von Speisen nach erprobten Kriegskochrezepten in der Lehrküche der städtischen Gaswerke - Vom Bürgermeister der k.k. Reichshaupt- und Residenzstadt Wien im Februar 1915 Dr. Richard Weiskirchner

Zuschneiden der aus den Abfällen neu hergestellten Montursorten. Nähen der Hauptteile. Fotograf: 10. Armeekommando.

Photograph at Thomas Bryers Hepple's grave in Dunkirk. Mother and father, John George and Grace Hepple stand by Thomas's grave.; Front

Dieses Foto zeigt meine Uroma mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Wilhelm, meinen Großvater auf dem Main in Frankfurt. Im Hintergrund kann man schön den "Eisernen Steg" und ein Teil vom Dom sehen. Sogar Schlittschuhläufer sieht man. Was allerdings so idyllis…

Queen Maria of Romania was very devotedly involved in supporting the Romanian troops during the First World War. Through her appearances among the trenches in her nurse's suit illuminated by the projectors touched not only by the Romanians, but also b…

Feldpostbrief der 6. jährigen Tochter Herta an ihren Vater Wilhelm Völkel, der als Sanitäter in Kiel stationiert war.

Rouen being close to the front, many wounded were sent there from the first months of the war. Auxiliary hospitals were therefore quickly set up in requisitioned civilian buildings. Auxiliary hospital No. 1 was located on the premises of the Jean-Baptiste…

Minnie Mason was my great-grandmother and she was by all accounts ‘a tough cookie’. She was born Mary Joseph [sic] Devereux on 24 May 1872, in Johnstown, Waterford, the daughter of a merchant, James Devereux. She joined the Mercantile Marine about 1896 as…

In the interview transcript attached, Martin Spafford discusses the content preserved in his grandmother, Francis Allison "Nancy" Garnett's many scrapbooks and other memorabilia collected during her time as a VAD nurse. Nancy was highly rega…

Foto der Julia Prell aus Amberg. Sie wurde während des Krieges zur Postzustellung zwangsverpflichtet

Freundinnen meiner Urgroßmutter; Widmung auf der Rückseite: Zur Zeit des Weltkriegs 1916 von deiner Freundin Emma Siepermann

Heidelberger Verband vom Roten Kreuz. Galizien, Ostfront; Fotograf: Kommando Hadfy, DSA; Heidelberg section of the Red Cross. Galicia, east front; photographer: Kommando Hadfy, Deutsche Südarmee.

Violet Alicia Aplin was the mother of Hugh Hinde who submitted this story. She was born on 25 December 1899 and during the war was in the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment)in London looking after wounded soldiers. She was 18 at the end of the war. In 1924 she…

Rudolf-Oskar Kranz, ein Onkel von Max Kranz (s. weitere Beiträge zu Max Kranz) war Kaufmann und Drogist in Köln - Lindenthal, Dürener Straße 146. Seine Frau Emma, geb. Schulte Werning aus Dutum bei Rheine in Westfalen, engagierte sich im Weltkrieg in der …