Tag: World War I

Fighting Women of Fighting Men

Nurse and Director of American Red Cross Canteen Services Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt speaks with two soldiers at an American field hospital in France. Taken from the January 24, 1918 issue of the Perth Amboy evening news.

In 1918 and the world was engulfed in two extraordinary conflicts. War raged through Europe and a complicated web of treaties and mutual defense pacts resulted in countries across the globe fighting for one side or another. Simultaneously a pandemic…

100 Years Ago: May 21, 1918

On May 21, 2018 the Great War dominated the news. The Perth Amboy Evening News front page contained stories that local contributions for the Red Cross reached the half way mark of their $40,000 goal, America’s first field army (200,000…