Ruth Stanley Farnam Explained

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Ruth Stanley Farnam (September 11, 1873 – December 7, 1956) was an American soldier and writer. She fought as a soldier in the Serbian army during World War I.^[1]

Family

Ruth Stanley Farnam was born at Patchogue, New York, the daughter of William Henry Stanley and Ida Jay Overton Stanley. She married Charles Henry Farnam and later, Baron Raymond de Luze. She went by the name of Baroness de Luze until her death in 1956.^[2]

War work

She originally served as a volunteer nurse in a medical unit attached to the Serbian army. She was present during the Battle of Brod on October 11, 1916^[3] and, when a soldier asked if she was afraid, answered: "Do you think I am scared? I have never lived before".^[4] After this, she was allowed to enlist in the Serbian army as a volunteer soldier. She was decorated three times by the King of Serbia.^[5]

In 1918, she published her autobiography, A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia.^[6] She died in 1956, aged 83 years.

See also

• Viktoria Savs

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=yApKAQAAMAAJ&dq=YWCA&pg=PT191 "To Serbia for the Y.W.C.A."
2. Web site: BARONESS DE LUZE DIES; Honored by Serbia for Relief Work During World War I. . December 9, 1956. The New York Times. October 8, 2018.
3. Web site: Sergeant Ruth Farnam is Bride in Paris. . February 27, 1928. newspapers.com. Indiana Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania). October 8, 2018.
4. Larsdotter, Anna, Kvinnor i strid, Historiska media, Lund, 2016
5. Book: Parlette. Ralph Albert. [{{Google books|rmjlAAAAMAAJ|page=35|plainurl=yes}} The Lyceum Magazine, Volume 28]. 35.
6. Ruth Stanley Farnam, A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia (Bobbs-Merrill 1918).