Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg36

The Work of the Red Cross

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Title Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg36
Date 1916
Page number Unknown
Publisher Reading Standard
Description 224 pages bound volume
Horizon Number: 1246254

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WORK OF THE RED CROSS

MISS C. PAGE-ROBERTS
O f Stratfieldsaye , a Red Cross nurse in
B. elgium
I n th e g r e a t flight she an d
h e r colle ag ue s t o o k t h e w o u n d e d f r o m
Antwerp to Ostend by m o t o r ; t h e scene
was l ik e a n i g h t m a r e , she says.

READING M E M B E R S O F T H E ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
BRIGADE , CHOSEN FOR
T H E AMERICAN WOMEN '€™S HOSPITAL A T PAIGNTON , DEVON .


W ith a fine sen se o f
p a tr io tism th e m em b ers
o f th e Wellington Club,
Reading , p ro v id e d tw o
s ta n d a rd
Ford
ambulances­
f o r th e u se o f
th e Expeditionary Force .
The C lu b
d e sir e d to
p re s e n t th e m t o th e 1st
a n d 2 n d Battalions o f
t h e Royal Berks Regt.,
but
th e War Office
p o in te d o u t th a t a m b u­
la n ce s co u ld n o t defin­
ite ly b e a llo t t e d to r e g i­
m e n ts or
b a tta lio n s —
th e o r g a n is a tio n o f u n its
d id n o t p e rm it o f th a t
b e in g d o n e . S tep s w ere,
h o w e v e r, ta k e n t o
a rra n g e f o r th e u se o f th e
a m b u la n ce s
w ith th a t
fo r m a tio n
co m p risin g
th e R o y a l B e rk s R e g im e n t.
T h e a m b u la n ces
w ere su p p lie d b y Messrs.
Skurray , o f Friar-street,
R e a d in g ,
a g e n ts
fo r
Ford ca rs.



P h o to b y ]


FORD MOTOR
AMBULANCES
PRESENTED BY THE
WELLINGTON CLUB, READING.

FIRST WOUNDED TO A R R IV E
A T READING STATION ENTER
THE WELLINGTON CLUB
AMBULANCE.



[C . E. May.


[ P . O. Collier.