Jane Craven

Jane Wells Craven (January 25, 1875 - March 3, 1958) was an American doctor, prize-winning tennis player, World War I ambulance driver and medic.

[11] Craven was instrumental in raising funds in Pittsburgh to take a field ambulance and crew to the French front during World War I.

[13] It was reported that "she narrowly escaped being captured by the Germans" on more than one occasion and that "her courage gained the admiration of the General Commander of Verdun", Auguste Hirschauer.

Initially based in France in the commune of Neuilly in the western suburbs of Paris, her role in the sisterhood was to care for the incurably sick and infirm.

She was arrested in Bayeux, but was released and travelled back to Paris with another nun in a car, driving past vast lines of German mechanized equipment.

Asked what she had observed on her journey, Sister Elizabeth offered such vague answers that she and her fellow nun were released by the Nazis.

[2] Sister Elizabeth's third arrested was during a round up of British and Canadian Religious by the occupying forces, with the intent of sending them to Besançon, in eastern France.

[2] The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul had a house at Arromanches, Normandy, connected to the community at Neuilly.

A Mulberry harbour artificial port was installed there as part of the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and the town was subject to significant bombardments.

Sister Elizabeth and another nun traveled there by car to rescue "a quantity of precious metal threatened with destruction", retrieving it safely and returning to Neuilly.