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Elsie Blanche Augustine Collection

Collection of artifacts belonging to Elsie Blanche Augustine from her time serving as a nurse during World War I at Buffalo Base Hospital No. 23 from 1917- 1919 in Vittel, France. Collection includes: 

Leather folio belonging to Elsie Blanche Augustine containing:

  • Letter from the United States Veterans Bureau January 1, 1925 receiving back payment from time served in the military
  • Log detailing payment and movements while enlisted. From assignment to Army Nurse Corps on September 3, 1917 to being relieved from active duty June 12, 1919
  • Graduation certificate from Millard Fillmore Hospital School of Nursing (formerly known as Buffalo Homeopathic Hospital Training School from Nurses) class of 1914. Reissued in 1924 under the new Millard Fillmore school administration
  • Florence Nightingale Pledge

Transcription of personal diary of Elsie Blanche Augustine [Hock]

  • Outline of document
    • Elsie Blanche Augustine Hock background information
    • Great War (World War I) background information
    • Diary from August 1917 to April 1919
    • Base hospitals (US Army and American Red Cross hospitals in Europe)
    • Base Hospital 23 (Buffalo Hospital) in Vittel, France

Envelope from Anne L. Austin addressed to Mrs. Keith Augustine containing original pages of Elsie Blanche Augustine’s diary

Photo of nurses stationed at Base Hospital No. 23 1917. Blanche pictured

Scrap Book containing:

  • Pictures of Blanche and other nurses departing for France from Ellis Island 1917
  • Pictures of Vittel and people living there
  • Pictures of nurses and soldiers around the base
  • Pictures of nurses and troops on boats going home in 1919

Newsletters from ship home- 1919 detailing:

  • Conversation between soldiers, crewmembers, and nurses aboard
  • Progress of the ship

Scan of American Red Cross Report on Buffalo Base Hospital Unit No. 23 1917 includes:

  • List of personnel
  • Letter to the Base Hospital Fund Contributors from Frank S. McGraw- Chairman
  • Letter from Clifford Hubbell- Treasury and Distributing Officer
  • Letter from Wells Blanchard- Department of Military Relief
  • Base Hospital statement of receipts and disbursements February 13, 1917- November 13, 1917
  • Letter to Chairman of the Buffalo chapter of the American Red Cross from Marshall Clinton- Director of Base Hospital No. 23
  • List of donors to the hospital

Blue envelope- Copy made May 5, 1924 of Elsie Blanche Augustine’s military log detailing payment and movements while enlisted. From assignment to Army Nurse Corps on September 3, 1917 to being relieved from active duty June 12, 1919

Program of Golden Jubilee class of 1914 reunion from 1937. Details what each graduating member has been doing since graduation by class historian (unnamed)