Femmes dans la 1ère Guerre mondiale

Antoinette Delbé est née en 1894 à Nancy. Elle reçoit, en juin 1915, le diplôme d’infirmière hospitalière au titre de guerre délivré par le Comité de direction de l’Union des femmes de France. Elle est ensuite envoyée aux hôpitaux militaires de Mailly-le-…

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…

Infirmière pendant la guerre (grande-tante maternelle de la déposante). Ni les renseignements fournis par le contributeur, ni les recherches ultérieures effectuées par le service des Archives départementales n'ont permis d'établir le parcours de c…

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 a été déportée comme otage au camp de HOLZMINDEN de janvier à juillet 1818, alors qu'elle était mère de 3 enfants en bas âge (7, 6 et 4 ans). Son mari Georges TOURY étant mobilisé comme soldat, elle a du confier la garde de leurs 3 enfan…

Gruppe leitender Damen der Wiener Gesellschaft auf dem Nordbahnhof.

Elly Schencking and her younger sister Maria Schencking served as Red Cross nurses in Romania during the war. See also the article "Brothers Max and Franz Schencking in uniform"; 4 photos. 3 from deployment, one a portrait with the two siblings …

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 née le 2 mars 1897, décédée le 9 septembre 1982, était une de mes grande-tantes maternelles. Elle travaillait à l'usine d'armement de la Pyrotechnie à la Seyne-sur-Mer (Var). Pendant la guerre, elle écrivait à son bien aimé August…

Document with the text - "Collection of gold jewelry - Miss Olga Rammenstein, in order to strengthen the gold treasure of the Reichsbank and thus the financial defense of our German fatherland, delivered jewelry with a gold value of M 18.90 for a fee…

Photographie noir et blanc appartenant à un album de photographies de famille. Marguerite est assise sur la gauche.

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 was born in 1896 in Wiersbau (near Soldau) in East Prussia. Before the war he worked on his family's farm. On August 10, 1916, his mother Berta wrote to her sister Marie Pawlitzki that Hermann was wounded on July 16, 1916 and became …

Free demonstration of the delivery of food according to tried and tested war cooking recipes in the kitchen of the city’s gas plants - By the mayor of the capital and residence city of Vienna in February 1915 Dr. Richard Weiskirchner

Making new uniforms from discarded cloth. Sewing the main parts. Photographer: 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

This photo shows my great-grandmother with her little son Wilhelm, my grandfather on the Main in Frankfurt. In the background you can see the "Eisernen Steg" and a part of the cathedral. You can even see skaters. What looks so idyllic, however, …

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…

Field post letter from 6-year-old daughter Herta to her father Wilhelm Völkel, who was stationed in Kiel as a paramedic.

Rouen étant à proximité du front, de nombreux blessé y furent acheminés dès les premiers mois de la guerre. Des hôpitaux auxiliaires furent donc rapidement mis en place dans des bâtiments civils réquisitionnés. L'hôpital auxiliaire n°1 se trouvait dan…

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…

Photo of Julia Prell from Amberg. She was conscripted to deliver mail during the war

friends of my great-grandmother; Dedication on the back: At the time of the World War in 1916 from your friend Emma Siepermann

Heidelberg Association of the Red Cross. Galicia, Eastern front; photographer: 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, an uncle of Max Kranz (see further articles on Max Kranz) was a merchant and druggist in Cologne - Lindenthal, Dürener Straße 146. His wife Emma, née Schulte Werning from Dutum near Rheine in Westphalia, was involved in the World War i…