Post on 17-Feb-2021
First in Peace, First in War, First at Cantigny:
The Origins and Initial Combat Operations of
the 1st Sanitary Train in the Great War
Donald E. Hall, PhD, PE, F. SAME
1U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry
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An Animal Drawn Ambulance Company
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A Field Hospital Company Training in the US4
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Field Hospital 3 Along the Texas Border and at Vera Cruz Before the War
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Hoboken Historical Museum6
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Colonel Percy M. Ashburn, Surgeon, 1st
Infantry Division
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Major C.C. Demmer (on right) outside building housing Filed Hospital 12, 1st
Sanitary Train, 1917
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Medical Staff, Camp Hospital 1, Gondrecourt Training Area
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Ambulance Company 13 and Field Hospital 3 on the move
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Wikimedia Commons21
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Photos: NLM & US Army28
Questions?
Donald.E.Hall40.civ@mail.mil
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