Sunday, 24 December 2017

A Christmas 1917 message from American Nurse Helen Fairchild

American WW1 nurse Helen Fairchild was from Pennsylvania.  She died on 18th January 1918 while serving in France  with the American Nurse Corps.  Helen Fairchild is buried in the Somme American Cemetery.   This link is to her last letter home at Christmas 1917:

http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/a-christmas-letter-from-nurse-helen.html









Tom Isitt  @masaccio60 via Twitter added this:

Her niece self-published an interesting book about Helen’s war experiences. 



Grave of Helen Fairchild in The Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France, with a remembrance poppy kindly left by Andrew Mackay.