Word: united
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...earnest, though unofficial desire of the War Department that the men who will compose these American ambulance units shall be of the highest class mentally and morally, and it is hoped that the leading colleges will contribute entire units which may be kept together and perhaps be given distinctive insignia. Fourteen hundred men have been asked for at once. All of the larger Eastern colleges save Harvard are already actively co-operating with the undertaking, and it appears that the desired number will be rapidly recruited. There yet remains, however, the possibility of forming a Harvard unit which will...
...last unit to leave this country, which sailed May 5, has also reached Paris, with eight Harvard drivers among its numbers. In all, 104 recruits for the ambulance service have arrived in the past few days, from Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Bowdoin, Williams, Beloit and the University. They will go directly to Paris for a short period of training, and then leave for actual service, where the men will be divided up into sections and distributed along the French front where their services are most needed in order to relieve men for the front...
Recruits are joining the Training Corps daily and the total number of men received since the enlistments were reopened now amounts to 487. Twentysix men applied for admission into the unit yesterday, of whom all but three were accepted...
Among the cities represented by surgeons are San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, etc. The members of the unit will be commissioned captains or lieutenants. The graduates of the University on the roster are Drs. C. R. Metcalf '02, A. R. MacAusland '07, J. C. Graves '04, Roades Fayerweather '99, and F. C. Kidner...
...Three units of the American Ambulance Service have been organized at Princeton, and will sail the latter part of this month for France. The three sections will total 73 men, all of whom have signed up for a period of six months. One or perhaps two additional sections from Princeton will leave the first week in June and it is possible that a sixth unit of 25 men may follow later...