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A Train Errant. Being the Experiences of a Voluntary Unit in France, and an Anthology from their Magazine 1915-1919 [No. 16 Ambulance Train, Friends’ Ambulance Unit, British Army Medical Services]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the New York Public Library, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. The Friend’s Ambulance Unit was founded by Quakers outside of the official structures of their faith. It operated under the wartime Joint Committee of the British Red Cross and Order of St John. For a general description, see the 24 page booklet https://archive.org/details/friendsambulanceunit2018 No. 16 Ambulance Train was, like No. 17, a gift to the B.R.C.S. from the United Kingdom Flour Millers. It operated under the control of the British Army Medical Services in France. The Introduction includes the wording “[The book] deals with khaki only inasmuch as it is the book of those who have lived on a khaki- painted Ambulance Train, and in place of great adventure there is the humble, monotonous duty behind the lines of conveying sick and wounded from Casualty Clearing Station to Base Hospital. Primarily the book was not intended for the General Reader, but to any such who ventures to read it we offer our thanks for his interest and attention. In August, 1915, a party of some forty young Quakers came on to No. 16 Ambulance Train as the working crew

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