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Mrs. Walter Hines Page, wife of the retiring American Ambassador to Great Britain, and for two years one of the most active ARC "visitors," pays a farewell visit to the American hospital at Dartford, near London. Out on the lawn are the convalescent soldiers, some in wheeled chairs, some on foot. With Mrs. Page is Major E.H. Fiske, of Brooklyn, the commanding officer of the hospital
Mrs. A.H. Walker of Northampton, Massachusetts. is assistant to the Director of Canteens for the American Red Cross in Great Britain. She has done a great deal of canteen work at the English ports and along the lines of communication by which American soldiers travel across England. She has been identified with the work of the A.R.C. in Great Britain for more than two years
Renee Grouyer, "the adopted daughter" of the Intelligence Section of the Army Field Clerks, 2nd Section, GHQ, cant's play ball very well, but she is one of the best little mascots in France. A testimonial to her abilities may be obtained easily from any member of her godfathers' section. She has big blue eyes and dimples and is as brown as a hazelnut because she plays out of doors all day long. She is a refugee child from the Meurthe et Moselle and lives now, with 300 other little refugee children at the Caserne du Chateau in Caen. The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops
Henry P. Davison, Chairman of the War council of the Amer. Base Hospital at Portsmouth, Eng. Here he met an old friend, Miss Katharine Kearney of Albany, who was nurse to the late Mrs. D. Rockefeller, Corporal J. DeSmidt of Chicago, who has just received the distinguished Conduct Medal from the British Army and has been recommended for further honors, for heroic work at the front. De Smidt lives at 3409 Belmont Ave., Chicago
Renee Grouyer, "the adopted daughter of the Intelligence Section of the Army Field Clerks, can't play ball very well, but she is one of the best little mascots in France. A testimonial to her abilities may be obtained easily from any member of her godfathers' section. She has big blues and dimples and is as brown as a hazelnut because she plays out of doors all day long. She is a refugee child from the Meurthe et Moselle and lives now, with 300 other little refugee children at the Caserne du Chateau in Caen. The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintenance of all children adopted by the American troops
Mrs. Whitlaw Reid and Colonel Gibson, A.R.C., visiting Hospital #3, 4 Rue Chevereux, (Hospital for Officers). Mrs. Whitelaw Reid & Colonel Gibson ARC commissioner for France visiting wounded American officers in the garden of American military hospital No. 3, Rue de Chevreuse, Paris. This was formerly a club for American women Art students established by Mrs. Reid & was converted by the ARC into a hospital for American officers
Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Duke is a civil service worker in the A[ssembly] and R[epair] dept. at the Navy Air Base (shot - reconditioning spark plugs)
Leader of French Women. Countess d' Haussonville, head of the "Union of French Women" one of the three societies comprising the French Red Cross. She has been an active worker with the French societies since 1914 and ever since the arrival of the American Red Cross in Europe in 1917. She has prompted the cooperation of the relief organizations of the two countries. The Countess is now engaged in work in the devastated regions of France where the "Union of French Women" and the American Red Cross are carrying out many plans together. "Our Society", said the Countess recently "Kept 800 hospitals with 70,000 beds and cared for 180,000 soldiers duing the war." it was the American Red Cross however, which enabled us to make this wonderful record. It gave us medical supplies whenever we were in need and came to our aid with the gift of $1,000,000
Mrs. R.H. Dunlap, Assistant Home Communications Officer of the ARC in Great Britain, who has just been awarded the bronze medal of the French "Committee for soldiers blinded in the War". Mrs. Dunlap whose home is in Washington, D.C. came to Europe in May 1917, and worked in Paris with the blinded French soldiers at the "Phare de France" where she was Supervisor of Instruction and Re-education. She came to Eng. last June, to take up work with the Home Communications Service of the ARC
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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Eng.
Group title: Personnel, Eng.
Data: Dreschsler. ARC. Oct. 28/18.
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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Date
01/01/1918
Location
england
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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