Anne Murray Dike (1878-1929) was an American doctor, chair of the

American Committee for Devastated France American Committee for Devastated France (1919-1924) also known as C.A.R.D. ''(Comité Américain pour les Régions Dévastées de France)'', from the French translation of the name of the organization, was a small group of American women who vo ...

from 1917 and recipient of the Croix de Guerre and member of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

Early life

She was born Anne Veitch Murray in Edinburgh Scotland about June 8, 1878. She immigrated to the United States about 1908 in which year she married Francis Harold Dike, a Columbia graduate and instructor in French and English at MIT (1900-10) whom she divorced in 1914.

World War I

Anne Murray Dike joined philanthropist Anne Morgan in France. From 1917 to 1921 Morgan took residence near the French front, not far from both Soissons and the "Chemin des Dames" at

Blérancourt Blérancourt () is a Communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, department of Aisne in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Population Sights The Château de Blérancourt, an influential design by Salomon de Brosse houses the Na ...

, and ran The American Friends of France. It employed several hundred people, including domestic and foreign volunteers and financed in part from donations from the States. Of seeing the French countryside during the war, Dike said in 1919, "You can travel in a motor going forward in a straight line for fifteen hours and see nothing but ruins". In 1924, Morgan and Dike both were made officers of the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony held at Blérancourt.

Death

Dike died on February 8, 1929, at the home she shared with Morgan at 43 Rue de Courcelles in Paris, due to complications of neoplastic

myeloma Multiple myeloma (MM), also known as plasma cell myeloma and simply myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that normally produces antibodies. Often, no symptoms are noticed initially. As it progresses, bone pain, anemi ...

. She is buried in the village cemetery at Blérancourt. The estate of Blérancourt was transformed into a museum and inaugurated in 1930, one year after her death.The Anne Morgan Story, American Friends of Blérancourt

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