In 1891 [her father] Louis Francis Ormond [aged 24] and [her mother] Violet Sargent [aged 20] were married.
1908. [her uncle] John Singer Sargent [aged 51]. "The Black Brook". Portrait of Rose-Marie Ormond [aged 14].
1911. [her uncle] John Singer Sargent [aged 54]. "Nonchaloir", or "Repose". Portrait of Rose-Marie Ormond [aged 17].
1911. [her uncle] John Singer Sargent [aged 54]. "Simplon Pass: Reading". Portrait of Rose-Marie Ormond [aged 17].
1911. Dorothy Barnard and Rose-Marie [aged 17] (at right) pose for Simplon Pass
1912. [her uncle] John Singer Sargent [aged 55]. Portrait of Rose-Marie Ormond [aged 18].
In August 1913 Robert André-Michel [aged 28] and Rose-Marie Ormond [aged 19] were married. He was killed fifteen months later.
On 13th October 1914 [her husband] Robert André-Michel [aged 30] was killed in action at Soissons, shot in the heart in an intense firefight as he was leading a group of reinforcements over open ground toward the front line.
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In 1915 Rose-Marie Ormond [aged 21] joined the nursing staff at the newly-established rehabilitation hospital at Reuilly, dedicated to treating soldiers who had been blinded by armaments or mustard gas.
Drawing by Paul Renouard, Those Who Are Learning to be Blind (1915). Rose-Marie is third nurse from left.
On 29th March 1917 a shell from the new "Paris Gun", a gun with a a 30m barrrel, designed specifically to shell Paris, hit "like a tremendous thunderclap high up on the Church of St Gervais, just before the Good Friday concert was about to start. Ninety-one people, mainly women, were killed, and sixty-eight wounded. The US Ambassador reported that "the destruction wrought by this shell was probably not equalled by any single discharge of any hostile gun in the cruelty and horrors of its results". Many of the dead were unrecognisable. Some had to be identified by engravings in their wedding rings. Among them was Rose-Marie Ormond [aged 23]. She was just 24.
Father: Louis Francis Ormond
Great x 4 Grandfather: Epes Sargent
Great x 3 Grandfather: Winthrop Sargent
Great x 2 Grandfather: Fitzwilliam Sargent
Great x 1 Grandfather: Winthrop Sargent
Grandfather: Fitzwilliam Sargent
Mother: Violet Sargent
Grandmother: Mary Newbold Singer