Ida Alma Bartel Culver

Ida Alma Bartel was born on December 6, 1883 in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. She served in the US Army Nurses Corp in WWI. Not much information was found on Ida Alma. She signed up as a Reserve Nurse with the Army Nurses Corps on May 20, 1918 and served to approximately 1930. She married Charles Roy Culver in Chicago, Illinois on January 6, 1931. Charles was a widower who was raising two children, Charles Lee and Lola Mae. They lived in the White, South Dakota area and upon her death in 1970, Ida was buried in Fairview Cemetery in White, South Dakota.

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US Army Nurse Corps

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War Girls

Between April 6, 1917 and November 18, 1918, over 21,000 American women enlisted in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, working at home and abroad to provide desperately needed medical care for the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). In California, Base Hospitals 30, 35, and 47 all mobilized and departed for the battlefront in France by mid-1918. The women who served as nurses in these hospitals experienced the Great War in army hospitals established in chateaus, hotels, and other existing local structures. They witnessed the high cost of war not on the battlefield, but in the operating room and the hospital ward. At the war’s end, they returned home as veterans in their own right, an honor that had been denied to previous generations of American servicewomen. 

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 Emma Davis (B.A. History & French, Florida State University) for the National Cemetery Administration History Office through the Virtual Student Federal Service internship program, 2020 - 2021.

 

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