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American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - Christmas Day at Dartford Hospital, England. The Red Cross Santa Claus visited every soldier in this hopsital. Shows Private Edward Davidson of Brooklyn, N.Y., who had laid six days in a shell hole and twelve weeks in a hospital unable to move while his splintered arm was mending

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - Around the Christmas tree on the lawn of the American Base Hospital at Dartford, near London. A merry party of American wounded soldiers and little English boys, all of them orphans from an English asylum near the hospital

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - A line of American soldiers in wheel chairs. The men who could not walk were brought to the Christmas tree in all sorts of wagons. Santa Claus is Lt. Ira Hodos of Berkeley, California, also a patient in the hospital. The scene is on the lawn of the big American Base Hospital at Dartford near London

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - English orphan children given Christmas presents by American soldiers. Little English orphans at the Dartford Orphan Asylum had their Christmas made the happier by the presence of wounded American soldiers at the Base Hospital in the City. The American present them with Christmas gifts

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - Decorating the Christmas Tree on the lawn outside one of the ward buildings at the American Base Hospital at Dartford, near London. The Red Cross Santa Claus, in appropriate robes, bosses the job from the side lines

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - Red Cross Santa in "Blighty". Christmas morning in the big American hospital at Dartford, near London. At seven o'clock the sunlight began to melt the fog from the windows. All the boys had hung up their socks and the Red Cross Santa had been there

American Red Cross - Headquarters & Buildings - The American Red Cross is cooperating on a great scale with French experts in handling tuberculosis cases amongst French soldiers, especialling providing nurses and in educational work. Above winter scene shows a ville, one of many loaned to the French Government, with all the windows wide open to the fresh air and sunshine

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - American Red Cross Santa Claus at an American Base Hospital in England. Lt. John Adams of Columbia, N.C., distributing presents to the patients of the American Base Hospital at Dartford near London, England at the Christmas Celebration given by the American Red Cross to the wounded American soldiers and orphaned English children. The two little children standing with private Isreal Levy of Brooklyn received the first two presents from the tree which was out in back of the hospital

American Red Cross - In the Service of Interior - Christmas Boxes - Christmas packets sent to boys in trenches by women of Washington, D.C. Contents of Christmas packet that were sent to thousands of boys in the trenches. It was sent by patriotic women of Washington, D.C. The packet contains tobacco, candy, pipe, chewing gum, playing cards, handkerchiefs, and even clothes-pins

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - Leon Sturgeon of Los Angeles, the American soldier on crutches tells some of the village children about the wonderful children of America, - that is the story the Dartford children like the best. On the lawn of the American Base Hospital at Dartford, near London. The Red Cross woman is Mrs. Arthur Robinson of Baltimore

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American Red Cross - Christmas Activities

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American Red Cross - Canteens - Interior of American Red Cross Casual Canteen in Le Mains, France, which feeds between five and six thousand men every 24 hours. This kitchen is never closed. Personnel left to right: Miss Hosfead Stern; Miss Milicent Stauft and Miss Ada Turner, serving dinner

American Red Cross - Groups - Ambulance drivers, Louis Goldman (left) and Roy L. Yelverton both of New York worked eighty hours without sleep carrying the American woudned from the battle front to the American base hospital at Neully

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Colleges and Universities - Goucher College - Patriotic activities of the girls at Goucher college, Baltimore, Maryland. 1 of the college "four minute men" speeches given in a corner of the dining-room

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