Word: driver
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to make the matter of expenses clearer it is repeated that all drivers will be provided with a uniform and outfit, and will be given their food and lodging from the time they reach Paris until they leave to return home. The volunteers themselves will furnish only articles of personal apparel and minor importance, the total cost of which will not amount to much. Each man should provide himself with a minimum of $100, however, for personal expenses, and as a ten-day vacation will be given each driver, a larger sum would be advisable. Although all volunteers must...
...sides "Amherst" in large letters, has already sailed for France. It is a donation made by the alumni of Amherst College. Exactly 100 graduates contributed to a fund for the purchase of the car. An effort has been put forth to obtain a graduate of Amherst as driver...
...head-quarters of the American Ambulance Field Service that the ambulance given by the Class of 1910 at the sexennial celebration last June has been assigned to Section 3, which is now at Salonika. Lovering Hill '10 is director of that section, and Henry Palmer '10 is the driver of the class ambulance. The work of the section has been so successful that General Sarrail has asked for another...
This section, which has since been attached to the Sixteenth Division, has rendered a great service in transporting wounded under difficult and often dangerous circumstances. On December 29, 1916, during a bombardment, the drivers showed conspicuous coolness and absolute devotion in succoring the wounded and conveying them to ambulances. Driver William Meadowcroft has given many proofs of calmness and coolness since the arrival of the division, often under perilous circumstances. He was wounded on December 29, during the bombardment...
Word has been received from the front the Ervine Thayer Drake, Jr., '16, who went over to serve as an ambulance driver more than a year ago, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for distinguished service with his Corps during recent fighting in France. After a few months Drake was raised to the position of second commander of his rewarded action he was in command of the fifth section of the S. S. A., to which position he has been promoted during the early part of December...