Krieger, Olga Collection
Olga A. Krieger Rudd was a Red Cross Nurse who worked with Base Hospital 21 in Rouen, France, during WWI. A graduate of Lutheran Hospital, she and three other nurses left St. Louis on May 17, 1917 and returned in April 23, 1919. This collection consists of a diary that Kreiger wrote during her tour of duty. One of these nurses she mentions regularly, Marie Kammeyer, was a classmate at Lutheran Hospital. Olga A. Krieger worked as a nurse after the war until she married Robert Rudd at the age of 39. The diary is typed and is titled “Manuscript of WWI.”
Collection contributed by:
Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections
