Elise Bergold
Bergold: Abstract of her ANC Service Record
25 years old when the U.S. declared war, Elise Bergold was younger than Mary Keller and likely a less experienced nurse. Her initial ANC assignment was at Camp Upton in Yaphank, a “warehouse” at which large numbers of draftees and recruits were collected, processed, and dispatched for training elsewhere in the Eastern U.S. After training camp, many were funneled back to Upton to await assignments to ships bound for France.
For some of these same men, the post-war trip home was not as smooth because of wounds or other infirmities. Nurse Bergold was transferred from Upton to Debarkation Hospital #3, a temporary hospital for more than 4,000 patients – then the largest hospital in the world! – which was carved out of the old Mercantile Exchange in Manhattan.
