Word: section
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nineteenth section of the American Field Ambulance, including several Harvard men, left Paris for the front yesterday...
...section is under the command of James P. Gillespie of New York, a Yale graduate. The second transport section, consisting of fifty men and twenty ammunition trucks will leave tomorrow...
...convinced that it is an ideal spot for the training of soldiers for the summer months. For five or possibly six months of the year no better place could be selected, but because of the rigorous winters of this section I do not believe it could be used to advantage during those months for the training of large bodies of men, much of the training of which must be done in the open; but, there is no telling what the exigencies of the present war may require and it may become necessary to keep a large number of troops...
This Ambulance Section will, in accordance with a proclamation of the President and by an act of Congress in reference to the Red Cross, go into federal service as soon as the enrolments are completed. The Company is already half full and the enrolments will be completed within a few days...
...training and instruction will take place as soon as the corps is full and will be supervised by Dr. E. A. Cunningham, who is captain of the section. He is also supervising the enlistments. The work will consist of some theoretical work and the regular infantry drill. Lectures will be given by experienced men on first aid to the injured, elementary hygiene and camp sanitation, administration and customs of the service, and on elementary nursing...