adelaidebbaylis

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1915

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swanq said:
The Marmon News
books.google.com/books?id=9FVJAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA35
indicates that Capt. Baylis is Adelaide B. Baylis, who headed the NLWS New York Motor Corps.
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Arden said:
Thanks swanq. We will update this image and the others of Adelaide Baylis.
swanq said:
The Milwaukee Journal - Apr 3, 1918 news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19180403&... reported that Col. Baylis said that Lieut. Mary Watkins would soon travel to France with Miss Ann Morgan. She was to drive trucks bringing supplies to "stricken villages."

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swanq said:
NLWS is National League for Woman’s Service en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_for_Women's_Service See also brooklynology.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/post/2010/07/29/N...
swanq said:
This photo was used in a recent book on WWI vehicles: books.google.com/books?id=MAA1QtNuRQEC&pg=PA145&l...
Arden said:
Thanks swanq. We will add more information about the National League for Woman’s Service when we update. Good to see the image used in a book too!
Art Siegel said:
This and the next two seem to be about delivering that box.
That's Capt. Adelaide Baylis at left.
Art Siegel said:
Another photo of the same women and car, obviously taken at the same time, ran in the July, 1918 number of National Service magazine, in connection with an article describing Baylis and the N.L.W.S. Motor Corps. The article mentions that she was the first woman to win the Amateur Champion Fencing Contest. books.google.com/books?id=0dCgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA361&l...