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Crowd of American wounded at Dartford Hospital, near London, listening to a song by one of the Red Cross Sunday entertainers who visit each ward and give a short program in each for the benefit of the men who can't get up and enjoy the sunshine like the men in the picture
Sunday afternoons at the big American hospital Dartford near London, the Red Cross usually has a talented visitor or two, someone who can go through the wards and sing a good song or tell a few funny stories, something to make the day a little different from the ordinary days. These little impromptu programs, five minutes to a ward, are very popular among the soldier patients, and a crowd of convalescents follows the entertainer around from ward to ward and listens at the window. On this afternoon it was a young woman singer who was the drawing card. She sang just the old songs, which after all are the ones the boys like best
What's going on inside? The scene is laid in the grounds of the big American hospital at Dartford near London. Convalescent American soldiers, American nurses and doctors and Red Cross men and visitors, are all seen running over toward one of the ward buildings, whose windows are wide open to the afternoon's sunshine. What's the attraction? It is one of the little Sunday afternoon "ward entertainments" arranged by the Red Cross to keep the boys who must remain in bed happy and bright. Some singer or story-teller, or even a ventriloquist or a conjurer, goes round the wards, giving a five minute entertainment in each. And the men on the outside enjoy it just as much as those inside
The audience at one of the Afternoon concerts given by the Red Cross in its new recreation hall at the Tottenham Hospital, near London. Every man in the picture is a convalescent American soldier. The programs at these entertainments are given by headliners from the principal London theatres
The women of the American Red Cross Care Committee in Glasgow entertain the Red Cross officers at Sunday afternoon tea, following a visit to all the local hospitals where there are American soldier patients. The committee's headquarters are in the fine "Red Cross Club for United States Forces" at 54 Bothwell St. Here are writing rooms, reading rooms, billiard tables and a fine canteen, which are highly appreciated by the American soldiers and sailors
Theatre. on Saturday evening, October 27th 1810, will be presented (Last time) a comedy in five acts, (now performing with great applause in London) called, High life in the City ... To which will be added, a celebrated farce, called Who's the d
King and Queen of England inspect Red Cross activities at the American Military Hospital, Dartford, near London. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in the prime of England's autumn season, and the spacious grounds of the hillside hospital were dotted with groups of convalescent American soldiers when their Majesties arrived. As the King and Queen and the Princess Mary walked around from ward to ward, crowds of American wounded, all dressed in hospital blue, clustered around them and they moved always through lanes of men whose bandages and crutches and splints told of heroism on the battlefields of France. The King was in a Field-Marshall's Khaki uniform
Victory Day at Dartford Hospital. The signing of the armistice was celebrated by everybody in the big American base hospital near London in noisy hilarious fashion. There was a big parade with 1500 wounded men in line. The hosptial nursing arranged a number of "Victory floats" which are used to caryy surgical dressings around the wards. The photograph shows one of these tiny floats
An American paper, only twelve days old, arrives at Dartford, and everybody gathers around while the nurse reads all the news from home. Dartford near London, is one of the largest of the American hospitals in England
Every Sunday afternoon the A.R.C. provides an entertainment for the wounded in the big concert hall at the Dartford Hospital near London. The Sunday programs are provided by London theatrical stars but the men themselves are now planning to get up an entertainment of their own. The plans are in charge of a committee of seven men, and the guests will include all the English artists who have appeared at the Sunday afternoon entertainment
Summary
Title and note information from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C.
Data: Credits. Gulf, N.W. Northern, Lake Divisions. 10/18. Southwestern Div. 10/18. Penn. Div. 10/18.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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library of congress
Date
01/01/1918
Location
england
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html