1917: Girl Posing as a Boy Killed at Camp Stuart

“Newport News, Va., Oct. 18--Florence Kelly, a 20-year-old girl of Greenville, Tenn., who has been working at Camp Stuart here for three weeks as a water boy, was killed here today by a motor truck during a Liberty Loan parade. She was riding on the truck and fell beneath the wheels. The young woman had been doing a boy’s work and living in quarters at the camp with the workmen without arousing suspicion as to her sex.” ~From San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), October 19, 1917