ID/Title: American Red Cross Military Hospital, Neuilly, France
Date: 1918
Creator: unknown
Description: American Red Cross Military Hospital in Neuilly, France. Photos taken August 1918. 32 nursed and 8 doctors trained by the Sisters of Mercy from St. John’s Hospital in St. Louis, MO volunteered to form a mobile unit there. It was the first of it’s kind to be operated by the US Government – for the purpose of giving emergency treatment to wounded soldiers in France.
Photo 2 shows interior of Ward #77.
Photo 3 shows interior of ward #246 patient Sgt. Donohue being attended to by Genevieve Garvens, R.N. and Mrs. Denvel with visitors Lt. Fortner and Lt Donohue looking on.
Photo 4 shows a hallway full of patients on cots waiting to go into surgery.
Source: St. Louis Regional Community Collection, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
Additional Information: © Mercy Heritage Center, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
Mercy in the Great War 