Military Career
Kenyon and his brother, Lawrence, enlisted in the Army in April, 1917, and were sent to Officers’ Reserve Training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Lawrence, Indiana. He was commissioned as a first lieutenant and was stationed in France as an intelligence officer with the 1st Army headquarters. Kenyon had been in France for a couple of months when he had a chance meeting with Lawrence, who had just arrived there with another unit. After the Armistice, Kenyon continued his education at Cambridge University before he returned home to Indiana.
During World War II, Kenyon Nicholson was an American Red Cross special representative in Australia.
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“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)