Charlotte Light: Army Nurse
Charlotte Light
Charlotte on right
In June of 1917, the commander of an American Expeditionary Force, General John J. Pershing, had arrived in France with one division and two Marine brigades, the most the Army could pull together in the early days. It would be almost a year before the first large wave of conscript soldiers were trained and could be sent to France. By the end of the war, the number of American soldiers would reach three million.
Charlotte was working at Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and was sent to France as an army nurse in the Harper Unit. She arrived in France on July 31, 1917 and remained in France until mid-January, 1918.
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