Word: line
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Departments have instructed the Red Cross to organize. The functions of the Red Cross Ambulance Companies correspond with those of the Evacuation Ambulance Companies of the regular army. They will probably be used mainly in the transportation of the sick and wounded from the front to hospitals along the line of communication as far back as the base hospitals. But although their duties are mainly to furnish transportation for the injured the personnel may be used in whole or in part to man hospital trains, hospital ships, or if the need is great, the emergency hospitals
Twenty-nine members of the University have signed up to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France. This contingent is scheduled to sail from New York for Bordeaux on May 19. Some Steamer of the French Line will take the unit across. Applications to join the Ambulance Service have been pouring in so fast from all over the country that all accommodations for sailing up to June 2 have already been filled. In all, 192 men will go May 19 to drive ambulances, 203 the following week, and 165 on June 2. Many of these men have signed...
...take part in the parade which General Joffre will review. Those men who are not required to report until the 14th will have ample opportunity to do so. It is unnecessary there to point out that all men who are not physically prevented from presence in their place in line then owe it as their first and simple duty to be there. That is due in justice to the Commandant of the Corps, whose months of effort will culminate, in the minds of the public, in this open display; in duty to the Corps, whose success is the success...
...over. There is much brave fighting to be done before the German will be driven over the Rhine. The Wotan line is yet unbent by the hammer of Thor...
...accompanied by officials of the city and the University, were preceded by the Regiment Band, the first battalion of the R. O. T. C., and the colors of the United States, France and the University. The two remaining battalions of the Corps bringing up the rear. The line of march lay along Federal and Milk streets to Postoffice square, thence along Congress, State, Washington and School streets, to the City Hall, where the parade was review by Mayor Curley, and from there along Beacon street to the State House, where Governor McCall reviewed the men. Turning down Dartmouth street...