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The Offices of the Chief Surgeon provided AEF medical officers with weekly bulletins. These compact publications provided updates on disease conditions, statistics compiled for different hospitals, and mandates for disease control measures.

Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. Olmsted's public…

British issue Inter-Allied Victory medal; ciruclar copper medal lacquered in bronze with bas-relief of a winged Victory on the front with left arm extended and right hand holding a palm branch; reverse features a laurel wreath around the rim with…

Circular silver medal featuring the bust of King George V on the front with raised text around head; reverse features the image of St. George on horseback with reins in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, trampling a shield bearing an eagle…

In her article "The Enlisted Men in Paris," Elisabeth Gilman says of this canteen: "From three to six in the afternoon and from eight to eleven in the evening men come for a cup of chocolate and a sandwich. For the boys are as hungry over here as at…

As the second Director of the Nursing Bureau of the League of Red Cross Societies, Katherine Olmsted visited Romania to set up a local a nursing school and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards. Queen Marie presented…