My grandmother was a nurse from late WWI and into the Spanish Flu epidemic. She was given a watch by a doctor so that she could take the pulse of the soldiers that she was taking care of. When she left nursing, she was able to keep it.

Forty years later, when I was 12, she gave it to me. I ended up losing it. I didn't understand what a loss it was until many years later.

"It says here in the book to push his face in the dirt to absorb the water from his lungs."

The three men look so similar in face and haircuts my first thought is could they be triplets? My second notion is that I would not expect to find in a circa 1919 photo a woman dressed in short shorts and spaghetti strap top.

[Indeed. - Dave]

Being that it’s 1919, it’s odd that the guy on the right has a wristwatch on.

[Um, no it's not. - Dave]

        “The telephone and signal service, which play important parts in modern warfare, have made the wearing of watches by soldiers obligatory,” the New York Times observed in 1916, two years into World War I. “The only practical way in which they can wear them is on the wrist, where the time can be ascertained readily, an impossibility with the old style pocket watch.”