New Ww1 Ambulances... Interesting History
Some ambulances were donated to the Red Cross. This grouping of London doctors gave this i to the British Red Cross.
the workers of west D too H O Wills Tobacco donated this one
Many other people helped enhance coin to purchase ambulances, spell others gave their cars every bit gifts.
But, in that location is a rattling remarkable ambulance I learned of, a 1912 Buick.
Looks similar it's been through a war, right?
Yep. WW1, too it did it inwards the worst of the fighting, the front end lines, all 24-hour interval long.
The ambulance corps it was inwards (section 7) happened to move awarded 3 Croix de Guerre medals... too that wasn't a snap of the fingers. They EARNED the medals dorsum inwards WW1.
1912 Buick, American Red Cross vehicle let on 144,694. brought to French Republic inwards 1914 past times the Norton-Harjes Volunteer Unit, too the wooden ambulance trunk added there.
The ambulance was taken over past times the American Red Cross inwards 1917, too used inwards the British too French sections. The ambulance was decorated alongside 3 Croix de Guerre medals (painted on correct side) each fourth dimension the ambulance department was cited for their actions.
It was "captured" inwards the Montdidier department inwards the saltation of 1918 past times the Germans. When the United States of America 27th too 32nd Divisions pushed into Montdidier later on inwards 1918, they institute the Buick lying inwards a park, stripped of tires too radiator.
It was taken dorsum to the repair depot at Parc des Princes, Paris. By belatedly 1919, it was sent to Washington DC too placed at the Red Cross National Headquarters.
It was placed inwards storage inwards Landover, Maryland prior to 1966, too thus stored inwards Silver Hills until 74, too thus it was at the U.S.A. Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, VA until '87 when it came to the Liberty Memorial Museum.
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