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Description: | Contemporary ms transcript (10pp) of a letter written by an unidentified American girl attached to the Red Cross in France in April 1918, describing the canteen at Beauvais where she is employed, her part in the evacuation of civilians and wounded from Grecourt par Nesle during the onset of the German Spring Offensive, (March 1918), treatment of the resulting refugees and revealing her admiration for the French and British troops and own aggressive fighting spirit: `I wish you could organise a Legion of Death. If so many have to be used as gunfodder, why wouldn't a million women go a long way?'
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1988 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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