Working there until just before the armistice in 1918, she cared for soldiers who had been poisoned by gas and otherwise injured in the trenches of the Western Front.
It all started back in November of 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year, an armistice went into effect ending the fighting in World War I.
Buddy Holly (killed in a plane crash), Amedeo Modigliani (dead of tubercular meningitis at 35), Wilfred Owen (slain in action a week before the armistice in 1918): such premature and cruel exits are tragic.
The British National Art Program 14-18 Now honors both the starts and ends of World War one with this November 11th as the 100th anniversary of the armistice that signaled the official end of the great war.
Because aside from Paul and his friends, we also see the story of Matthias Erzberger, the German writer and politician who tried to negotiate a peace and who eventually signed the armistice on Germany's behalf.