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Please scroll down (All the following pictures and mementos are scanned from my mother's scrapbooks)

 Certificate of Identity

To the left is my mother's certificate of identity. It was given to each nurse before sailing on the T.S. Lapland to France.

On a box carThe troop train
On the troop hospital train near Angers. My mother on the right in the first picture, and on the ground in the second picture.
A voucher signed by mother to send her LARGE monthly paycheck to her mother in Pittsburgh.

 Children of France
Some French children in a village near the troop train.

 Stickers for the war effort
Patriotic stickers from the folks back home.

 Gas VictimsThe trenches
The horrors of the war. Gas victims on the left, trenches on right.


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