Charlotte (Anderson) Monture
Army Nurse Corps, World War I

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Charlotte (Anderson) Monture
Army Nurse Corps, World War I

Description

Charlotte (Anderson) Monture, of the Six Nations Grand River Reserve in Canada, served as one of the few American Indian Army nurses during World War I. Wanting to seek new opportunities, Monture attended the New Rochelle School of Nursing in New York, becoming a registered nurse in 1914. She worked as an elementary school nurse until 1917 when she joined the Army Nurse Corps. Assigned to the Westchester County [New York] Unit B Hospital Unit at Buffalo Base Hospital 23 in Vittel, France, Monture cared for soldiers from the front, often those who had been gassed or shot. In her diary, she wrote about a soldier who had died, “My heart was broken. Cried most of the day and could not sleep.” Monture was discharged from the service in April 1919 and returned to the Six Nations Reserve. Monture often spoke of her wartime nursing experience in France until she passed away in 1996 at the age of 106.

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“Charlotte (Anderson) Monture
Army Nurse Corps, World War I,” The Military Women's Memorial - Exhibits , accessed March 28, 2024, https://mwm.omeka.net/items/show/10.