Ruth Stanley Farnam

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]

Ruth Stanley Farnam
Ruth Farnam, from a 1919 publication.
Born	September 11, 1873  Patchogue
Died	December 7, 1956  (aged 83)
Occupation	Soldier, nurse, writer
Spouse(s)	Charles Henry Farnam, Raymond de Luze
Awards	Order of St. Sava
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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