Over 22,000 professionally-trained female nurses were recruited by the American Red Cross to serve in the U.S. Army between 1917 and 1919 — and over 10,000 of these served near the Western Front.

Madeline Riva Baxter’s passport photo, issued shortly before she embarked for France as a Red Cross canteen volunteer. A scrapbook created by a World War One nurse on the frontline has been sold ...