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[[File:Anne Dike 1916 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Anne Murray Dike, 1916]]
'''Anne Murray Dike''' (1878-1929) was an American doctor, chair of the [[American Committee for Devastated France]] from 1917 and recipient of the [[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de Guerre]] and member of the [[Legion of Honour]]. <ref name='Life 1952-Feb-11'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Anne Morgan Feature | date=February 11, 1952 | publisher= | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=i1QEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=true | work =Life Magazine | pages =28–29 | accessdate = March 1, 2010 | language = }}</ref>
==Early life==
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==World War I==
[[File:Anne Morgan and Anne Murray Dike, ca. 1915.jpg|thumb|Anne Morgan and Anne Murray Dike, ca. 1915]]
Anne Murray Dike joined philanthropist [[Anne Morgan (philanthropist)|Anne Morgan]] in France. From 1917 to 1921 Morgan took residence near the French front, not far from both Soissons and the "Chemin des Dames" at [[Blérancourt]], and ran The American Friends of France. It employed several hundred people, including domestic and foreign volunteers and financed in part from donations from the States.<ref name='Life 1952-Feb-11'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Anne Morgan Feature | date=February 11, 1952 | publisher= | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=i1QEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=true | work =Life Magazine | pages =28–29 | accessdate = March 1, 2010 | language = }}</ref> Of seeing the French countryside during the war, Dike said in 1919, "You can travel in a motor going forward in a straight line for fifteen hours and see nothing but ruins". ▼
▲Anne Murray Dike joined philanthropist [[Anne Morgan (philanthropist)|Anne Morgan]] in France. From 1917 to 1921 Morgan took residence near the French front, not far from both Soissons and the "Chemin des Dames" at [[Blérancourt]], and ran The American Friends of France. It employed several hundred people, including domestic and foreign volunteers and financed in part from donations from the States.<ref
In 1924, Morgan and Dike both were made officers of the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony held at Blérancourt.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Association des travailleuses sociales|title=Médaille d'or Anne Murray Dike: encouragement, perfectionnement, premier concours 1930|date=1931|publisher=Impr. administrative|location=Paris|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=Ysx5HAAACAAJ|accessdate=28 July 2017}}</ref>
==Death==
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