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Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919

Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France during World War I. During the war's final months, she operated a canteen and post exchange in Troyes, attended to convalescing servicemen, arranged their burials and wrote letters to their families.

After the Armistice, she headed canteen operations in Le Mans for hundreds of thousands of returning servicemen in embarkation camps. In her final months in France, she toured battlefields and the decimated towns along the Western Front. Presented in historical context, her weekly letters home--from August 1918 through July 1919--relate stories of her service to the doughboys and her interactions with French citizens.

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Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919

Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France during World War I. During the war's final months, she operated a canteen and post exchange in Troyes, attended to convalescing servicemen, arranged their burials and wrote letters to their families.

After the Armistice, she headed canteen operations in Le Mans for hundreds of thousands of returning servicemen in embarkation camps. In her final months in France, she toured battlefields and the decimated towns along the Western Front. Presented in historical context, her weekly letters home--from August 1918 through July 1919--relate stories of her service to the doughboys and her interactions with French citizens.

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Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919

Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919

Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919
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Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919

Serving the Doughboy: Letters of a YMCA Worker in France, 1918-1919

Overview

Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France during World War I. During the war's final months, she operated a canteen and post exchange in Troyes, attended to convalescing servicemen, arranged their burials and wrote letters to their families.

After the Armistice, she headed canteen operations in Le Mans for hundreds of thousands of returning servicemen in embarkation camps. In her final months in France, she toured battlefields and the decimated towns along the Western Front. Presented in historical context, her weekly letters home--from August 1918 through July 1919--relate stories of her service to the doughboys and her interactions with French citizens.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476692647
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 01/04/2024
Pages: 278
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

James J. Marquardt, PhD, is a professor of international relations at Lake Forest College in Illinois. He teaches and researches on war and peace, U.S. foreign and national security, and global governance.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: The Great War, America, and the Y.M.C.A. in France
1. From New York to Paris
2. Troyes
Interregnum: Paris, Pau, and Troyes
3. Le Mans
4. Marseille and the South of France
5. Paris, Northeastern France, and Belgium
Bibliography
Index
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