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Two months ago little Gilberte Dieu and her mother left their home in the Somme to go see the soldier father who was in a hospital, badly gassed. When they reached the town where he was they learned that the Germans were approaching their home, and if they wished to save any of thir possessions they must hurry back. They started home, only to find they were too late. Again they turned around to go back to the Hospital, hoping to find the father better, and learned that he was dead. Now they are living in a quiet old town in Normandy. Gilberte is as pale as if she had been ill a long time, but she has been adopted by the Company E of the Telegraph Battalion, and the money they have sent will provide her generously with good food and warm clothing for next winter. Perhaps these the memory of what the war has done to her will fade out partly from her tragic little face. The A.R.C. administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops
Two months ago little Gilberte Dieu and her mother left their home in the Somme to go see the soldier father who was in a hospital, badly gassed. When they reached the town where he was they learned that the Germans were approaching their home, and if they wished to save any of their possessions they must hurry back. They started home, only to find they were too late. Again they turned around to go back to the hospital, hoping to find the father better, and learned that he was dead. Now they are living in a quiet old town in Normandy. Gilberte is as pale as if she had been ill a long time, but she has been adopted by Company E of the 406th Telegraph Battalion, and the money they have sent will provide her generously with good food and warm clothing for next winter. Perhaps with these the memory of what the war has done to her will fade out partly from her tragic little face. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops
A family whose history has been a stormy one and the father shot for refusing to collect loot. The family was living in Lille when it was sacked in October 1914. The older girl on the right was arrested for giving chocolate to French prisoners and was locked up for two weeks. Finally her mother had to buy her release from the German Commandant by selling her wedding ring and all the family treasures. This money went either to the German government or to the Commandant. The case is typical of a large member of arrests made about that time. Another daughter twenty years old was taken away by the German Commandant and has never been seen since. The family was rapatrie through Evian. They were brutally treated on the way and had to sleep in the open fields for 19 days with hardly any food. They are sheltered by the A.R.C. in the comfortable home shown in the picture. They have been given furniture and the older children have secured employment through the A.R.C. Two sons are in the French Army
The mother of Andre Claudel died a year ago. His father was killed in the Argonne and Andre is so quiet, so serious, that he seems much more than ten years old. He is like a young old man in all he says and does. He is one of the best students at the refugee colony at Caen where he has lived ever since he was driven away from his home in Lorraine by the shells and poison gas of the Germans. His teacher says: "Il travaille dans la perfection," his work is perfect. Sometime he will go back to Lorraine when the Boches have been driven out. He says: "I like the American soldiers. They have come to protect my country. And I like especially my God-fathers." They are the Army Field Clerks of Section G-5, General Staff. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops. Sept. 1918
Renee Grouyer, "the adopted daughter" of the Intelligence Section of the Army Field Clerks, 2nd Section, GHQ, cant's play ball very well, but she is one of the best little mascots in France. A testimonial to her abilities may be obtained easily from any member of her godfathers' section. She has big blue eyes and dimples and is as brown as a hazelnut because she plays out of doors all day long. She is a refugee child from the Meurthe et Moselle and lives now, with 300 other little refugee children at the Caserne du Chateau in Caen. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops
Renee Grouyer, "the adopted daughter" of the Intelligence Section of the Army Field Clerks, 2nd Section, GHQ, cant's play ball very well, but she is one of the best little mascots in France. A testimonial to her abilities may be obtained easily from any member of her godfathers' section. She has big blue eyes and dimples and is as brown as a hazelnut because she plays out of doors all day long. She is a refugee child from the Meurthe et Moselle and lives now, with 300 other little refugee children at the Caserne du Chateau in Caen. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops
Renee Grouyer, "the adopted daughter of the Intelligence Section of the Army Field Clerks, Section, GHQ, can't play ball very well, but she is one of the best little mascots in France. A testimonial to her abilities may be obtained easily from any member of her godfathers' section. She has big blue eyes and dimples and is as brown as a hazelnut because she plays out of doors all day long. She is a refugee child from the Meurthe et Moselle and lives now, with 300 other little refugee children at the Caserne du Chateau in Caen. The A.R.C. administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops
Belgian orphans who fled before the enemy in 1914 and were wanderers and suffered from cold, hunger and fatigue until May 1915, when they were taken under the care of the Comite Franco-Americian pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere. They are now in Versailles under the special protection of the Comtesse Pierre de Viel-Castel and Mrs. Walter Gay. As a result of their hardships one of the sisters and one of the children died before reaching Paris. Two other children were left behind in a hospital in the North and a third child died two days after her arrival in Paris of tubercular meningitis. Little Bertha, the shortest girl in the front row, and her two sisters standing back of her at her left, lost both father and mother by the same obus
Two little shoes found in the pockets of a mortally wounded Belgian soldier, have touched the heart strings of the nurses, attendants and physicians in the French Hospital where he lies at the point of death. The story of the shoes is a heart stirring one. With a letter they were found in this Belgian cyclists pocket. The letter was addressed to his wife from whom he had been separated since the destruction of Termonde, their home. In tender words he penned the message stating that he was enclosing a pair of shoes (hanging at the head of the bed) for their three year old baby with the money he had earned as a scout in King Alberts army. The tenderness of the letter and the mute pathos of the little shoes have moved every one in the hospital to employ every known agency of skill, science, and hard work, to snatch the brave soldier from the pathway of the "Grim Reaper" and restore him if possible to his little family. The incident is probably the most touching one yet met with by the hospital attendants
Two months ago little Gilberte Dieu and her mother left their home in the Somme to go see the soldier father who was in a hospital, badly gassed. When they reached the town where he was they learned that the Germans were approaching their home, and if they wished to save any of thir possessions they must hurry back. They started home, only to find they were too late. Again they turned around to go back to the Hospital, hoping to find the father better, and learned that he was dead. Now they are living in a quiet old town in Normandy. Gilberte is as pale as if she had been ill a long time, but she has been adopted by the Company E of the Telegraph Battalion, and the money they have sent will provide her generously with good food and warm clothing for next winter. Perhaps these the memory of what the war has done to her will fade out partly from her tragic little face. The A.R.C. administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Comm. to France.
Group title: Adopted children, France.
October 1918 [date received]
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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Date
01/01/1918
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