American Red Cross - Canteens - Preparing sandwiches for the men of an arriving troopship. Every transport is met at the docks by a deputation of Red Cross men and women. The soldiers flock down to the Red Cross Canteen for Coffee and Sandwiches, chocolate, and cigarettes, and it is a big job keeping enough on hand for their needs. Sea air is a great stimulant to the appetite, and the American soldier has a great curiosity to sample the "war bread" of England and see how it tallies up with the war bread of America

American Red Cross - Canteens - An American Red Cross Canteen on the docks at an English port. On the day this Canteen was opened it served eight thousand American soldiers from an incoming convoy. It has frequently gone to 15,000 cups of coffee in a day together with countless sandwiches, chocolates, and cigarettes

American Red Cross - Canteens - American Red Cross "Doughnut Foundry" Le Mans, France. This is "rolling and cutting" table where 30,000 doughnuts are turned out every day and distributed to the American soldiers, in Embarkation Area. Left side of table: O. Coon, of Missouri, A.S. Williams, Lakepere, Ind.; right side of table: C.P. Dunham, Prescott, Ariz., and H. Fisher, of Indiana

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 - 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 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

American Red Cross - Canteens - Interior of the American Red Cross "Doughnut Factory at Le Mans, France," where 30,000 doughnuts are turned out daily to add to the flavor of the soldier's mess. Twenty-one cooks busy themselves twelve hours a day in the "Foundry". The boxes filled with doughnuts in the background are readyto be transported by the Red Cross to units scattered over a thirty mile area. The officer is Lt. P. M. Kelly who is in charge of the Red Cross Pastry factory

American Red Cross - Canteens - Preparing sandwiches for the men of an arriving troopship. Every transport is met at the docks by a deputation of Red Cross men and women. The soldiers flock down to the Red Cross Canteen for Coffee and Sandwiches, chocolate, and cigarettes, and it is a big job keeping enough on hand for their needs. Sea air is a great stimulant to the appetite, and the American soldier has a great curiosity to sample the "war bread" of England and see how it tallies up with the war bread of America

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American Red Cross - Canteens

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1917 - 1918

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