Boylston met reporter Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of the not-yet-famous Laura Ingalls Wilder on a train between Paris and Warsaw. Boylston wrote about her experiences in Sister: The War Diary of a Nurse, which was published in 1927.Īfter the 1918 Armistice, Boylston remained in Europe working for the Red Cross for two years providing services to civilians in Albania, Poland, Russia, Italy, and Germany.
She nursed the wounded at a front-line field hospital, specializing as a nurse anesthetist and reaching the rank of captain.
She graduated as a nurse from Massachusetts General Hospital in 1915 and sailed for France to serve in the First World War with the Harvard Medical Unit, as part of the British Expeditionary Force. She thought of studying medicine like her father, but chose nursing since the training was shorter. She attended Simmons College in Boston for a year.
Helen Dore Boylston (Ap– September 30, 1984) was the American author of the popular " Sue Barton" nurse series and " Carol Page" actor series.īorn in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Boylston spent her childhood there, and was nicknamed "Troub", short for Troubles.
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