Warrior Canine Connection Names New Candidate Service Dog After WWI Hello Girl Hortense Levy Amram

Please join us in welcoming WCC’s Levy, named in honor of United States Army Signal Corps Operator First Class Hortense Levy Amram.

Hortense Levy was born in Philadelphia in 1888. Her father, Louis Edward Levy, was a publisher, inventor, and community leader in Philadelphia and served as the Vice President of the Franklin Institute. She grew up reasonably affluent and was able to travel to Europe.

She and a female friend found themselves stranded in a small French seaport when the First World War erupted. After 18 days and much paperwork, Hortense and her travel companion reached Paris where they were able to begin their journey home. Her experiences in these early days of the war, watching the French women take on new roles as the men left to fight, made a mark on her.

Operator First Class Levy entered the service on March 19, 1918, after she received a telegraph instructing her to report for training as a telephone operator. Fluent in French, she trained at Trenton, New Jersey, before being sent to France in the Sixth unit of Signal Corps Telephone Operators Civilian women who served in the US Army Signal Corps as a telephone operators in World War I were colloquially called the “Hello Girls.”

From March 1918 to January 1920, the “Hello Girls” connected over 26 million calls, serving at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the occupation of Germany. Operator First Class Levy died on October 8, 1977, and was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia.

It is with tremendous pride that we name WCC’s Levy in honor of United States Army Signal Corps Operator First Class Hortense Levy Amram.

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