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American Red Cross - Refugees - Jeanne Septvents, adopted by Company E, 6th Battalion of the 20th Engineers. Funds for keeping of all adopted children are provided for by the A.R.C

American Red Cross - Refugees - Jeanne Septvents, adopted by Company E...

Date Taken: 09/0/1918 Photographer: American Red Cross, France American Red Cross - Refugees

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose father, for nearly a year a prisoner in Germany, has given his life for France. Jeanne has been adopted by Company "E", 6th Battalion of the 20th Engineers. When the AMERICAN RED CROSS photographer found her in the garden of her little stone house at Caen, she was playing with knuckle-bones that she had painted red, white and blue in honor of her God-fathers. She wrote them soon after she was adopted saying: "I hope you are all in good health and not too unhappy at the front and I send big kisses to you all." The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose fathe...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1... More

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose father, for nearly a year a prisoner in Germany, has given his life for France. Jeanne has been adopted by Company E, 6th Battalion of the 20th Engineers. When the American Red Cross photographer found her in the garden of her little stone house at Caen, she was playing with knuckle bones that she had painted red, white and blue in honor of her Godfathers. She wrote them soon after she was adopted saying: "I hope you are all in good health and not too unhappy at the front and I send big kisses to you all." The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose fathe...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from LC-A6199-3907. Source of original on caption card: A.R.C., R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Adopted children. France. On caption ... More

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose father, for nearly a year a prisoner in Germany, has given his life for France. Jeanne has been adopted by Company "E", 6th Battalion of the 20th Engineers. When the AMERICAN RED CROSS photographer found her in the garden of her little stone house at Caen, she was playing with knuckle-bones that she had painted red, white and blue in honor of her God-fathers. She wrote them soon after she was adopted saying: "I hope you are all in good health and not too unhappy at the front and I send big kisses to you all." The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops. September 1918

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose fathe...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1... More