“Till I Have Done All That I Can”
An Auxiliary Nurse’s Memories of World War I
in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Author:
Michelle Moravec
Michelle Moravec
Rosemont College mmoravec@rosemont.edu
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Abstract
The scrapbooks and wartime papers of American Alma A. Clarke reveal how one woman repurposed gendered propaganda during the Great War. Clarke was in France from January 1918 to July 1919 as both a child welfare worker with the Comité franco-américain pour la protection des enfants de la frontière and as an auxiliary nurse in the American Red Cross Military Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The Great War provided Clarke with new ways to contribute, new arenas in which to share her expertise, and perhaps most importantly, new perspectives on the significance of her contributions to society.