American Nurse ~ Angel Of Mercy ~ World War One ~ Poster

American Nurse ~ Angel Of Mercy ~ World War One ~ Wounded Doughboys thought they were in heaven when they woke up to an “Angel of Mercy” an American Nurse ~ Illustrations ~ WWI ~ France ~ Europe ~ Illustrator ~ C. LeRoy Baldridge ~ 1917—1919 ~ * ~ Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge (1889 – 1977) was an artist, illustrator, author and adventurer. When the United States entered the WWI he joined the American Expeditionary Forces. In the AEF he joined the talented team that brought the Stars and Stripes newspaper into being. Baldridge was the chief artist on staff that included Harold Ross, founder of The New Yorker, Alexander Woollcott, drama critic for the New York Times, and others who later achieved considerable fame. As a journalist, Baldridge travelled freely and saw as much as any general. His work appeared in virtually every issue of Stars and Stripes from March 1918 until the end of the War in November, 1918, and portrayed the full range of emotion of soldiers facing death at the Front. (PD-US-Gov) (PD-1923) *****