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Here is some info about Helen Fairchild.
Helen was one of 64 nurses from Pennsylvania Hospital Unit #10 who had volunteered to join the American Expeditionary Force after the United States entered World War One. Fairchild died on Jan. 8, 1918, while on duty with British Base Hospital #10/#16.
Her letters home provide a view into Nurse Corps service. Helen Fairchild spent her active-duty time in the Ypres-Passchendaele area at Casualty Clearing Station #4. Where the 64 volunteers faced 2,000 beds.
In August 1917, Fairchild wrote to her mother: "We all live in tents and wade through mud to and from the operating room where we stand in mud higher than our ankles."
Chief Nurse Julia Stimson, wrote of all that the nurses endured: "What with the steam, the ether … the odor in the operating room … sewing and tying up and putting in drains while the doctor takes the next piece of shell out ... Then after fourteen hours of this … off to rest if you can … one need never tell me that women can't do as much, stand as much, and be as brave as men."
No one can say for sure whether Helen Fairchild's death was due to complications from chloroform used during surgery or from effects of mustard gasses.
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