Word: motors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Andrew Ph.D. '00, General Inspector of American Ambulance Field Service in France, in a letter written from Lycee Pasteur, Neuilly-sur-Seine, to the Alumni Bulletin, describes the work of Harvard men in the French ambulance service, and the pressing need for motor ambulance drivers in his division. He says...
...should like through your columns to appeal to men of Harvard, on behalf of the field service of the American Ambulance in France. We have, at present, considerably more than 100 motor ambulances given and driven by Americans, who love and admire France, and who want, in this way, to express their friendship for France and to assist in preserving for the world the lives and genius of her people. These cars are grouped in sections of 20 or 30 each, which are officially attached to the several French armies and are in service at the front. The drivers...
...work of the motor ambulances is not actually on the battlefield, as is often supposed. The army's own stretcher-bearers do the hazardous work of collecting the wounded; they are given what treatment is imperative by the surgeons at the first-line stations, and are taken to the second-line stations in horse-ambulances. It is here that the work of the motor-ambulances begins, and it ends at the big clearing hospitals, established at varying distances to the rear...
...William Garstin begs to convey to the students of Harvard University, the very grateful thanks of the British Red Cross Society, for the motor ambulance that they have been so kind as to present...
President Lowell has received a letter from the headquarters of the Belgian Red Cross in La Panne, where a large part of the Belgian army is now located, acknowledging the receipt of one of the five motor ambulances for which the money was raised here early in the winter...