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2nd Generation woman in service, WWII/post war ARC group


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My previous post was about Carrie Buhrman a WWI YMCA veteran. She got back home and married Charles B Nettleton in 1921 and they had a daughter Carolyn B Nettleton who like her mother went to Randolph-Macon Women's College and graduated in 1945. I don't have proof yet but I strongly suspect she was already a member of the ARC before she graduated. The R-M WC had an active ARC group on campus with frequent bandage wrapping and knitting activities. They even sponsored a Red Cross canteen in England. Miss Nettleton's earliest paperwork dates to 1942 and is a copy of a letter talking about setting up ARC facilities in England, has to be school related. To my knowledge Miss Nettleton did not go overseas until after she graduated. Once she graduated they didn't waste much time. My December 1945 she is on a ship bound for Manila. She subsequently joins the occupation forces in Korea where she stays until April 1947. I have ordered a 1945 R-M WC yearbook off ebay and hope that will give some idea of her activities. Some of the paperwork is extremely interesting, at least to me, so I hope you all don't mind a long post with lots of photos. Much of her paperwork is menus for serving meals to 100 people. I didn't luck out on all the uniform pieces as I did with the WWI display but that was because the rest did not survive. The overcoat is in bad enough shape with lots of mothing and sun discoloration to the shoulder/collar area. I'm thrilled to find a footlocker though as I don't find any pictures of WWII ARC footlockers online. It is empty but locked (I'd sure like to get it open to put everything in it if anyone has pointers, I don't want to take a crowbar to it :-) ). It also came with what I think is one of those nurse wrap around hats but I honestly have never had one before. It's a square piece of cloth with a red cross and blue stripe (does the blue stripe indicate ARC versus army nurse corps?) and a shoulder bag. Miss Nettleton never married and died in 1982 at only 59 years old.

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more paper. I thought the expense papers, the note on segregation and dating were particularly interesting.

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more sandwiches, misc service pamphlets, wartime flags (US, France, National China) given out at Randolph-Macon Women's College (I found an article about it in the school newspaper but refrained from copying it at the time). No idea why she had unused Russian postcards.

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more paper: uniform regulations, various newspapers from unit or ship (USS William Mitchell going over and USAT Gen E T Collins on return)

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Christmas and New Years menus (both on ship?) 1945,46. newspaper. Last really interesting piece I found folded up like this in the satchel. It is a cash receipt for disbursement and the change was still in it. 5000 of anything seems like a really large amount of money back then so the currency was probably not worth converting the change or she paid the few pennies out of pocket so she could keep it.

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