Anna Coleman Ladd is a "distinctive stranger", nowadays few people remember her but she took part in “repairing” many broken faces of WWI soldiers disfigured by their wounds.
Anna Coleman Ladd is a "distinctive stranger", nowadays few people remember her but she took part in “repairing” many broken faces of WWI soldiers disfigured by their wounds. Anna Coleman Watts born on July 15, 1878 in Philadelphia, USA. In 1905, at the age of 26, she married a doctor, Maynard Ladd with whom she would have a daughter Gabriella May, and they settled in Boston. The young bride continued her studies with sculptor Bela Patt, who made decorative fountains, nymphs, leprechauns, mythological creatures, busts... One of his works "Triton babies" is exhibited at the San Francisco International Exhibition in 1915. At the same time, she wrote two novels and two plays. It's in Boston where she hears of a certain Francis Derwent Wood, located in London, who helps soldiers disfigured by the war by making masks for them. In December 1917, Anna joined her husband, a member of the Red Cross, who had been sent to France a few months earlier. In Paris, and in colla...