Erma G. Riedel, of Saline, Michigan, served in the United States Army Nurse Corps from 1918-1919.
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This collection has been digitized in its entirety.
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Photograph album includes over 250 photographs taken by Riedel during her Army Nurse Corps service. Included are images of soldiers and nurses at Fort Des Moines, Iowa and images of nurses, patients, buildings and wards at Camp Kerhuon, France. There are also photographs taken during her travels around France and Italy and of Riedel's return voyage back to the United States. There are also approxiamately 80 commercial photographs of France during the war.
Erma G. Riedel, of Saline, Michigan, served in the United States Army Nurse Corps from 1918-1919. Riedel trained at Fort Des Moines, Iowa and sailed to France in November, 1918 as part of "Replacement Unit Number 4". From December 1918 to June 1919, she was stationed at Camp Kerhuon near Brest, France. Riedel returned to the United States on the USS Pocahantas in July 1919.
Women's History Military
Army -- Army Nurse Corps
World War I era (1917-1920)
World War, 1914-1918 United States. Army--Women
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