Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1918

By: m&m

m&m — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:51:37 +0000

Interesting about the Red Cross units.

I LOOOOOOVE old pics like this.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:48:26 +0000

Thanks for the explanation, Ardis. I think the uniforms threw me a little!

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:49:14 +0000

What a very interesting time. World War I ending and the Spanish Influenza showing up. We really don’t appreciate how lethal the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 was. Conservative estimates put the number of deaths at 20 million or twice the number of all World War I deaths combined. Other estimates put the number of deaths worldwide at 40-50 million. It really was a sad time.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:05:26 +0000

Great photos. That chapel looks so cozy with all that ivy covering the walls. It has such a sense of place.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:42:53 +0000

Good memory, Hunter. Charles Denney was the missionary who recorded the experiences of a very hungry day when, dependent for his meals on the kindness of others, his need was finally met in an extraordinary way.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:22:52 +0000

How fun to see a photo of Charles Denney!

These were great, thanks.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:20:52 +0000

Relief Society sisters joined the Red Cross en masse, with many RS units doubling as RC units. I don’t know what all they did, but evidently part of it was that they dressed up in the RC uniforms (probably an effort to maintain cleanliness if not sterility) while they rolled bandages. These pictures are of LDS sisters on their Red Cross duty days folding and rolling bandages to be shipped to army field hospitals and similar institutions.

The RS Magazine and Young Woman’s Journal from the war years carry regular reports of donations and services rendered to the Red Cross, and patterns for knitting various items for soldiers. Our servicemen today may have to depend on their parents and neighbors to supply them with the body armor that the government can’t seem to deliver, but at least they don’t have to rely on Grandma and her sisters cutting and folding their first aid supplies anymore.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:55:18 +0000

What were ‘Relief Society surgical dressing units’?

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:47:27 +0000

Move over Nurse Diesel. The ladies from the Weber Stake are here to make you get better.