Glenna Lindsley Bigelow

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Glenna Lindsley Bigelow

1876–1954

A Connecticut-born nurse found herself in Belgium when World War I erupted, then turned those frightening days into a vivid firsthand memoir. Her writing offers a rare civilian view of the German invasion of Liège and the strain of living through history as it happened.

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Liége on the line of march : $b an American girl's experiences when the Germans came through Belgium

Liége on the line of march : $b an American girl's experiences when the Germans came through Belgium

by Glenna Lindsley Bigelow

About the author

Born in Connecticut in September 1876, Glenna Lindsley Bigelow was an American nurse and memoirist. A family-history record identifies her as the daughter of George Willis Bigelow and Maria Lindsley, and later as the wife of Roger Pierpont Tyler. She died in September 1954.

Bigelow is known for Liége on the Line of March: An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium, published in 1918. Contemporary and library records connect the book to her time in Liège, where she was working as a nurse in 1914 when German forces entered Belgium during the opening phase of World War I.

What makes her account memorable is its angle: not a distant summary of the war, but a personal, on-the-ground record of fear, disruption, and endurance. Her book remains of interest as a firsthand American witness to one of the conflict's earliest shocks.