1918 — the last year of the Great War, the first year of the flu pandemic. The Saints carried on, adapting to new conditions while maintaining as normal a life as possible. Here are a few of their snap-shots:

Student Army Training Corps, at BYU

Relief Society surgical dressing unit, Granite Stake, Salt Lake City

Relief Society surgical dressing unit, Weber Stake, Utah

Union Ward, Salt Lake Valley
(Charles Denney, kneeling, is the groundskeeper)

Utrecht, Holland

Wairau, New Zealand
Elders and Home Missionaries

Manchester, England
Home Missionaries

Flint, Michigan

Los Cerritos, Colorado (Mexican Mission)

Relief Society surgical dressing unit (unidentified stake)

Boy Scouts of Salt Lake City, masked and delivering literature about the flu epidemic

Scouts of Salt Lake City encamped in American Fork Canyon

LaGrande, Oregon


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