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The Red Cross man is on the docks when the incoming Troopship approaches its dock. As the soldiers line the rail and shout him their greeting, he responds by throwing them packets of cigarettes and chocolate, which are always welcome. But it is not so much the gift as the spirit and the welcome which the soldiers like and appreciate. "It's the Red Cross that puts the 'soul' in 'soldier'" writes the editor of a "trench newspaper" published by an American aviation squadron in England
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
Colonel L.S. Hughes of Frankfort, Ky., commanding officer of the American Red Cross Military hospital at Sarisbury Court near Southampton, England, talking with a group of American Red Cross officers at the entrance to the hospital on "Opening Day" when his first patients were received. The hospital was built for the American Army by the Red Cross and will have accomodation for 3,000 patients. Colonel Hughes without overcoat. The two Red Cross officers are Major Foster H. Rockwell of Washington, D.C. and Major Joseph M. Hartfield of New York
Where the Red Cross gifts go. Here is a consignment of boxes of good things from America which are being taken out of the big Red Cross warehouses in London. Each case is addressed "A.R.C. Southsea, England." To the initiated, that means "for the American wounded at the big Portsmouth Base Hospital". The men handling the cases are Americans discharged from the British army for disability
An American Red Cross Canteen "Somewhere in England. Several squadrons of those rolling canteens are now being used for American soldiers at the English ports and along the lines of communication by which American troops pass through England on their way to France. Standing behind the basket of sandwiches on top of the canteen is Major Foster H. Rockwell, head of the A.R.C. canteen service in Great Britain. Major Rockwell is a Yale graduate and a famous Yale football quarterback. The lady standing next to him is Mrs. A.H. Walker of Northampton, Massachusetts., one of he most active American canteen workers in England
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker inspects American Red Cross activities in England. The Secretary carried away an excellent impression of what the American army authorities have been able to accomplish in preparing comfortable camps for the approaching winter. He saw the soldiers at work and play. In a 300-year-old parade ground at Winchester he inspected several companies of soldiers, drawn up in a long straight line at attention. Left to right, Colonel Samuel Jones, General Biddle, Secretary Baker, the Lord Mayor of Winchester
The American wounded arriving at Dartford Hospital (near London) are a cheerful and optimistic lot of fighters. They come to the base hospitals in England, direct from the battlefield, after receiving first-aid at the casualty clearing stations. The Red Cross meets them as soon as they land on English soil, sees that they are provided with their immediate necessities, and then prepared further for them at their destination. Twenty American women are on duty as Red Cross "visitors" at the Dartford Hospital and they meet every convoy of wounded
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
Professor Earle D. Babcock of New York University arrives in England on his way to American Red Cross Headqaurters in Paris, where he will be in charge of the new school for Training Red Cross Personnel. On his arrival in London he received a letter which he is seen reading. It was from the officer commanding the American troops on board the great liner on which Prof. Babcock commanded a detachment of Red Cross workers. The letter said, "The work of your Red Cross officers and nurses on board our ship made it possible to save the lives of a number of American soldiers who would otherwise have been lost. Please accept this expression of our deep and lasting sense of obligation." The reference is to a large number of influenza cases among the soldiers, who were cared for by the Red Cross personnel
Major General John Biddle, commanding the American Army in Great Britain. He recently said: "I really do not know what the American Army would have done in England without the Red Cross. Everywhere the Red Cross is giving the best that can be given or asked for. Our men are being cared for as well as they can be. We in the army all feel a gratitude to the Red Cross which it is hard for me to express in words. Without the Red Cross it would have been impossible for us to have given camps the comforts and conveniences and happiness" which they have had in England
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. England.
Group title: Personnel.
Data: To the Divisions.
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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Date
01/01/1918
Source
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