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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Motor Ambulance Section of the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps will leave Cambridge today for Allentown, Pa., where they will receive intensive training in their duties as drivers, clerks, and mechanics for two weeks or more under Major E. E. Persons of the Medical Corps. These men will sail for France immediately upon the completion of work in this country. The unit is composed of 39 men, all but two of whom are either graduates, or present members of the University. These men are to report at room 617, 25 Huntington Avenue, Boston, this afternoon at 2 P. M. for instructions...
...official Harvard unit of the American Field Service, composed almost exclusively of members or recent graduates of the University, is scheduled to sail today from New York for France. Of the 25 men in the unit, 24 are from the University. This contingent, enlisted primarily for ambulance work, will serve as a separate unit throughout the duration...
Candidates who pass the physical examination will report at a place and time designated by the War Department. Orders to report at a mobilization point will probably follow enlistment immediately. The contingent will sail for Europe as soon as it is properly equipped...
...ambulance unit composed almost entirely of members of the University will sail for France on June 2. This addition to the forces of the American Ambulance Field Service has been officially christened the "Harvard Unit." The unit sails with assurances that it will remain intact as a complete section in the service...
Thirty members of the University are scheduled to sail from New York today for France, to serve in the American Ambulance Field Service. These men will go to Bordeaux on the steamer Chicago of the French Line, the same ship that carried the contingent from the University last February. The sailing of the boat has been held over since last Saturday. Beside the men from the University, the Chicago will take two units from the University of California, one from the University of Illinois, one from the Washington University of St. Louis, and 80 other men from colleges and universities...