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American Red Cross - Canteens - The midnight canteen Red Cross headquarters at 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London. Every American soldier who comes finds a place to sleep in London and there are hundreds of them every night, is welcomed at Red Cross Headquarters, where he gets a fine meal at the canteen counter, and then is given a sleeping place in halls or offices of the big building. The men sleep in long rows on the the floors and tables. This was done for several nights during the period following the signing of the armistice, until other arrangements could be made for taking care of the big influx of American son leave in London
American Red Cross - Canteens - American soldiers on leave in London. First American troops on leave in London. The Americans getting seven days leave in England and they come to London in daily parites of a hundred or so. They are eating their luncheon at the Red Cross Canteen
American Red Cross - Canteens - American soldiers on leave in London, England, get first meal in Red Cross Canteen at Headquarters. In good weather, the canteen is set up in outer courtyard of building, and doughnuts fried over a little portable stove. Women in the picture are: Anna Lansing of Albany, at stove, Lillian Baldwin of Lakewood, N.J., Mrs. Alan Campbell, and Helen Peterson of Chicago; Behind Miss Lansin is Major Marshall Hale, A.R.C. of San Francisco. Not soldier wearing captured German Helmet
American Red Cross - Canteens - American Sailors at Red Cross Canteen in Royal Law Courts, London, England. The "Great Hall" of the Law Courts served as dormitory for about a thousand men, for ten days after the signing of the armistice, and in one of the alcoves, the Red Cross canteen women set up their counter and furnished all comers with sanwiches, coffee, and various good things. Photograph taken at midnight
American Red Cross - Refugees - American Red Cross in North Russia. American soldiers and some children who they found starving near Archangel. When news was brought to camp, all soldiers chipped in to give out of their own supplies of hard tack, bully beef and bread, but that was not enough. One of the soldiers volunteered to nurse the dying mother and her little girl. Another soldier was sent at once to American Red Cross headquarters, a trip of an hour and a half from this small outpost camp, for expert help and a trained nurse. The nurse left at once with the soldier traveling throug a blinding snow storm to the little peasant cottage
American Red Cross - Canteens - American Red Cross Canteen at Liverpool. One of the American Red Cross rolling Canteens at the "Landing Stage Station" in Liverpool, where thousands of American soldiers and sailors and nurses have obtained their first taste of Englands' famous war bread. American Red Cross nurses, the last to arrive in England, got a hasty meal before the train left for London. They are on their way to France to serve with the army of occupation
American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - Owing to crowded condition of hotels in London the Red Cross has thrown open several of its office buildings in London, where soldiers and sailors on leave can have a place to sleep. Shows a group of men rolled up in their blankets in one of the offices of the Dept. of Military Relief at 52 Grosvenor Gardens
American Red Cross - Groups - American Red Cross Activities in England. American Red Cross officers call on Colonel Herbert W. Swaln the American Consul at Southampton. Col. Swalm and his wife have visited more wounded Americans than any other Americans in England. The group shows Capt. Ed. G. Butler, a farmer of Annfield, Ba. Major Foster H. Rockwell of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Swalm; Major Joseph M. Hartfield of New York and Colonel Swalm
American Red Cross - Canteens - Midnight canteen service, Red Cross Headquarters, London, England. The men shown in the picture are mostly American soldiers returned from German prison camps
American Red Cross - Canteens - American Red Cross cares for American on leave in London, England. The enourmous influx of American soldiers on leave in London after the armistice flooded all hotel and hostel accomodations and many American soldiers found themselves at eleven or twelve o'clock without a place to sleep. The Red Cross threw open several of its large headquarters buildings and furnished the men with blankets and hot meals. Group of men arriving at Red Cross headquarters at midnight "canteened" in the big hallway
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