Banner
   
 
The Red Cross - National & International Volunteers

[ Red Cross - Local Activities ]    [ Red Cross - Local Volunteers ]    [ Red Cross - Local Officers & Committees ]    [ Red Cross - National Volunteers ]

In response to the need for trained workers, more than a score of members of the Knoxville Red Cross Chapter volunteered for canteen, nursing or executive work.  On this page are shown the photographs of eleven of them.

Fred. A. Ault, Deputy Comptroller of the National Red Cross at Washington from May, 1918, to July, 1919, who had, in that capacity, final review and approval of all Red Cross expenditures E. W. Ogden, former president and one of the organizers of the Knoxville Chapter, who went to France in 1917 and served for a year in Red Cross work Mrs. E. W. Ogden, who also saw a year of foreign service in the direction of Red Cross work in France
Miss Julia E. Hoyne, Red Cross nurse who went overseas in November, 1918 Miss Anna Magee Sanford, who did canteen work in France from July, 1918, to April, 1919 Miss Margaret McKinney, who was also overseas in canteen work for the Red Cross from November, 1918, to August, 1919
Miss Ella Williams, a canteen worker, who served in France from January, 1918, to March, 1919, in French and American canteens Miss Anne Gettys, also a canteen worker in France for six months Mrs. N. E. Logan, director of woman's work in the Knoxville Red Cross Chapter until her departure in July, 1918, for Europe, where she managed canteens at Bordeaux, France, and Treves, Germany
 
Miss Stella Wade, Red Cross nurse at Camp Jackson from August to December, 1918 Miss Mary Rachel Shackelford, who did Red Cross nursing at Camp McClellan and Camp Wadsworth during the war  

 

The Greatest Mother - Red Cross

 

 
  [ Return to Knox County in World War I Resources Page ]

[ Return to Knox County Genealogy Military Page ]

[ Return to Knox County Genealogy Main Page ]

 
 
Except as noted, all HTML code and graphics in the URL path [http://www.knoxcotn.org/military/wwi/] were created by and copyrighted 2001-2003 to Billie R. McNamara.   All rights reserved.   Please direct all questions and comments to Ms. McNamara.
This page was last updated January 2, 2004.  Visitor  .