Word: ypres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loyal to the cause of the Allies. Motor ambulances, in sections of 25 cars, are attached to various divisions of the French armies and do the work of the regular military field ambulances. Since the war began the cars have been used at the battle of the Marne, at Ypres during the great second battle, and along the Yser Canal, on the Somme, at Verdun, at Hartmansweilerkopf, in Alsace and in the Balkans. Today on practically every front where the French troops are in action these cars will be found close behind the lines...
Henry Sydnor Harrison's account of the work at Dunkirk and Ypres is perhaps the most finished piece in the book, while the telling of the death of Richard Hall by Waldo Pierce and of the speech by the "medicin chef" is moving and beautiful. It is impossible to read it without knowing intuitively the supreme worth of the service of all these...
...armies back toward the Aisne as the fighting moved farther and farther away from the city. In October this section was attached to a British Red Cross unit with their base near Neuve Chapelle in Northern France and was later moved to Dunkerque and then to Eleverdingle, near Ypres in Belgium. At this last place the cars did the advanced field work usually done by the horse-drawn ambulances. Open only to members of the Union...
Some of the posters now on exhibition are: "Zeppelin Raids," "At Neuve Chapelle," "Ypres Tower," "Submarine Menace," "Mars Appeals to Vulcan," and "The Remaking of Belgium...
...seems complex, but we often got patients in the hospital in Paris within 12 to 14 hours after they have been hit, even when coming from Arras or the line farther north toward Ypres. On arrival in the hospital patients are at once seen by the receiving officer, who, in our service, was one of the residents, and by him sent either to the ward direct, to have a bath first, or to the operating-room, as each single case demanded. The largest number of admissions to the University Service in any 24 hour period was 33 cases...