Word: salonika
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Dates: during 1916-1916
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Edward Carter Sortwell '11, of Cambridge, who has been with the American Ambulance Service with the French armies, died of injuries in Salonika, Greece, November 12, according to a cablegram received by relatives. He was 27 years old and a son of the late Alvin F. Sortwell, a former mayor of Cambridge...
Sortwell entered the University in 1907 but left his studies in 1909 to go into business. He joined the American Ambulance force last May and was assigned to the third section under Lovering Hill '10. About a month ago this section was transferred to Salonika...
...four of which are headed by University graduates. Section Eight is in charge of A. B. Mason '08, Section Nine under Carleton Burr '13, Section Ten under H. M. Luckley '10 and Section Three under Lovering Hill '10. This latter section, according to telegrams received yesterday, has just reached Salonika, where it will operate with the French armies in Greece. This section is larger than the others and is composed of 36 Ford ambulances, two repair cars, a large ambulance (two-ton truck) and 25 volunteers. Hill was in the first section that went to the front. In this section...
...present seven sections serving with the French army and two others ready to go out as soon as the necessary drivers are obtained. One of these sections, commanded by Lovering Hill '10 who has been given a lieutenant's commission in the French army, has recently gone to Salonika after 18 months service in Alsace and in the Verdun region. A. B. Mason '08, Carleton Burr '13 and H. M. Luckley '10 are in command of units in the Verdun. Alsace and Somme sectors respectively...