How the news of the peace reached the Amer. in the Base Hosp. at Dartford, near London. As the Red Cross car dashed thru the streets of the hosp there was a great response from all sides. Men in beds allowed out thus on sunny antics; men confined to wheel charis forgot their crutches and danced about. The Red Cross with a young Amer girl standing high on the front seat and shrilling the news, sped down thru the main streets of the camp, and then back and forth thru the little side streets, until everybody had heard the news

How the news of the peace reached the big Amer. Base hospital at Dartford, near London. The news was brought by a special messenger in a Red Cross car. The car is seen approaching the hospital gates, the crowds cheering as it comes

Armistice celebration at the Amer. Hosp. at Dartford near London. The Red Cross car stood about the hosp. grounds distributing extra rations of chocolate and cigarettes, and whereever it went it was the center of hilarious celebration. The excellent effect of such a celebration on the patients is seen by the fact that three crutches have evidently been thrown aside as unnecessary by patients who forgot their troubles in the midst of the merry making

A great crowd gathered about the Red Cross car which announced the signing of the armistice to the Americans at the big base hospital at Darford near London. As the car reached the larger ward buildings there was pandemonium. The man in the wheel chair forgets his aillments, and to the horror of his nurse, jumps up almost too fast for the camera, and rushed over to get one of the little news sheets which the Red Cross messenger is distributing

The latest news from home. In various parts of the Amer. hospitals in Eng. there are large Bulletin Boards, where each day the Red Cross posts a long "Bulletin" of wireless dispatches, telling all about what is happening in the States. It is a service which the men appreciate very highly, and it keeps them in touch with happenings back homes as nothing else can do. This picture was taken at one of the big military hospitals near London

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

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

How the news of the peace reached the Amer. in the Base Hosp. at Dartford, near London. As the Red Cross car dashed thru the streets of the hosp there was a great response from all sides. Men in beds allowed out thus on sunny antics; men confined to wheel charis forgot their crutches and danced about. The Red Cross with a young Amer girl standing high on the front seat and shrilling the news, sped down thru the main streets of the camp, and then back and forth thru the little side streets, until everybody had heard the news

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Title and note information from Red Cross caption card.
Group title: Hospital, Eng.
On caption card: D-392
Data: Mr. Redding, S.W. New Eng. Gulf, Pa. Lake, Mt Div. 12/18
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
Temp note: Batch 21

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01/01/1918

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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

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