American relief unit in Constantinople. When the American Red Cross sent a field unit to Constantinople to handle the work of distributing relief and food supply stations for the thousands of destitute Russian refugees who were pouring into Turkey by way of the Black Sea port of Odessa, this group of men were the first to go. They are, reading from left to right, Major George M. Reinbolt, director of transportation, Chicago. Lieut. George Koler, ass't supt. Of warehouses, New York; Capt. Milner, supt. Of warehouses, Philadelphia. Lieut. Henry Nelson, ass't director of transportation, Gloucester, Massachusetts.; Major C. Claflin Davis, director of the unit, Boston; H. Day, director of supplies, Richmond, Virginia Capt. R. S. Mighill, personnel officer, New York; Sgt. N. Reymer, garage supt. Chicago. Major. McQueen, comptroller, New York
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office.
Data: 6 divisions. Group title: Personnel. Turkey.
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
Temp note: Batch 24
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
constantinople
Source
Library of Congress
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