A Hero in War

In 1917, Natalie went to war as a Red Cross worker in France. She worked six months in the headquarters of Colonel Alexander Lambert until the Germans threatened to overrun Paris. Then, Natalie worked with the tens of thousands of refugees pouring into Paris, volunteering as a ward nurse in a French battlefront evacuation hospital. When the Germans bombed her hospital, Natalie repeatedly climbed to the top floor amidst the explosions to pull wounded soldiers from the rubble to safety. She returned to America a war hero, earning France’s highest medal for courage, the Croix de Guerre.