Word: driver
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Word has just been received that Howard Burchard Lines, LL.B., '15, of Paris, a driver in the American Ambulance Field Service, died of acute pneumonia in the Argonne district. He contracted the disease during service at the front. His father, Dr. E. S. Lines, lives in Paris...
...Oxford, William and Mary, or the University of Edinburgh. His great experience occurs in a box at the opera in a city of some importance, and it must have happened some years ago, because he goes home in a carriage. One wonders if he knows where to tell the driver to stop, so unrelated is he to space and time...
...about midnight, on that Christmas night, Richard started out on his motor ambulance in the neighborhood of the battlefield. And, as he neared the scene, a shell struck him as he sat on his chauffeur's seat. The ambulance was wrecked. No one heeded. But next day another ambulance driver found the American boy's body buried under the ruins of the vehicle, and the French soldiers paid it such military honors as they could...
Dell, also spoken of as a volunteer driver of devoted loyalty, was cited for showing great coolness and bravery by making a dangerous trip in broad day-light to bring back to an ambulance from a first aid station an officer who had been severely wounded...
...extra man on the ambulance has hopped off to guide the driver and as he swung back on the moving care the sergeant called out in English in a cheery voice, "good night...