Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-11-11 | Page 2 | Social Worker Recalls Air Raids Describes War Day Experiences

Social Worker Recalls Air Raids k Describes War Day Experiences By CLARENCE WILLIAMS So accustomed to air raids over Franco France that thc they failed to awaken her and fearless ot of the tha booms of or German nib Dig Berthas which were flu into l' l Paris regularly ever every half hour Miss Ada Taylor Graham ox executive s secretary of oC the Utah association became reminiscent Monday and un unfolded some of ot her exp experiences In ln In Inthe the world conflict Miss Jl Graham was among amon the first Int contingent of American nurses who went overseas to Join tho British nursing service shortly after the war vur broko broke out She I la is also among the first nurses who were ivero cited for Or their world n ii the hospitals She Sho was awarded tho the British Mona Mons ribbon and Red Cross medal the tho American Victory medal nail the tho Fr French cited her with tho time dc de GOES TO ENGLAND I 1 left Chicago o In iii 1915 with a agrOUt grOUt group of oC nurses and doctors rs for Cor England where we wo WC were D made o members of or Queen Alexandra Alexandra's K H Imperial Nursing service e. e After fter equipment we were sent getting otting our to Franco anti stationed lt In the tIme British expeditionary nary force Coree hospi hospital t tal l located at Boulogne Our group was WU the tle first Am American Ameri rl- rl land in England can contingent to anti and It wa Was at a. a timo when time tho British were in dire Iro need of or nurses The Tho British fr I losing nurses and doctors lI heavily on this waL war front Nothing was too good for forus us Wp We Were dined for or weeks weel s h by the time nobility of or England and of or course coure wo mado made a great s hit with them in our t typical plc American fashion Of or course when tho the Yankees landed in Paris in Jul July 1917 1 I was transferred h from tho the British army ho hospital to the tho American women's omens war wal hospital nt nl l Paignton a and after aCter i a 0 years year's service I went to the I French hospital In Parja known n as I the tho Croix Rouge Rouse It uIt was WIS then when I tasted the thereal theren rca ren real horrors of war Tho Germans luaU had been gaining and thc they had commenced commenced com corn to bomb Paris Their bombing tactics started ary 30 1915 and continued every clear clem night until August TIme and time timen n again the shells struck near the story six hospital where I was nursing Tho nearest t they came to striking time the hospital well hospital well thc they hit hita a l large garage arage In the tho rear lear of ot the institution and blew It to pieces Wo Va had instructions to move tho patients who were wre on the top floors down to tho the first anti and second floors eve v evo time the tho Germans began began be be- gan to shell tho the city Tho Time heavy 1 bombing bombin started In March 1918 1915 when wIlen the tHc enemy nemy opened fire with JU ItA it RI nix Big 13 Berthas only fiC fifty y miles out of Paris Parl U as ns far fal as thc they got sut because uso thc they were soon driven hitch when tho the Americans Joined in fn i bIb parade Miss Hiss Graham 6 eald ld I 1 J t