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Adjt. Stella May Young
Salvation Army
from:Chelsea, Mass
Adjutant Stella May Young, was one of the first "doughnut girls" of the First World War working near the front lines in France in 1918. Those Salvation Army workers served doughnuts and coffee to infantrymen (referred to as doughboys). A photograph taken during the war and used a popular postcard, shows a Stella near the front lines wearing an army helmet, smiling at the camera and carrying a bowl of doughnuts.

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