Diary entries written in 1917-1919 by Florence Augusta Reimann, a nurse serving at U.S. Base Hospital no. 2 in France. Compiled and published by son, Joseph S. Manning III and his wife Lois in 1994.
History and Biography
Florence Augusta Reimann was born in Racine, Wisconsin on July 25, 1894 to Louis George and Augusta Schonion Reimann. She studied nursing at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City (class of 1916) and later held the position of Assistant Head Nurse (Operating Room) at the Hospital.
Reimann served as a nurse (May 12, 1917-April 12, 1919) alongside other nurses and doctors from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital staffed at the U.S. Base Hospital no. 2 in Étretat, France. She met her future husband, Joseph Stevenson J. Manning in France. They were married in Norwood, Pennsylvania June 1, 1924.
Reimann died October 22, 1988 at the age of 94 in Castle Point, New York.
Organization
Transcribed entries taken, according to her surviving son, from Reimann’s unpublished diary. Entries begin May 13, 1917 and end on December 23, 1918; accompanied with photocopied photographs and other documents, compiled and bound by Lois R. and Joseph S. Manning III, the latter being the son of Florence A. Reimann. It is unclear if the illustrations were originally part of Reimann’s journal.