From the archive: Telling the story
By early 1915 the work of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) had expanded in scope. The Friend continued to provide Quakers in Britain with a regular insight into its work.
‘Figures are poor things to represent the tale of service done in these nine short weeks by the Friends’ Ambulance Unit. But it may be of interest to record briefly the results up to January 2nd. The members of the Unit helped in the rescue work at the sinking of the Hermes in the Channel on October 31st; they have dressed 3,000 wounded men in the evacuation sheds at the railway station at Dunkirk; they have superintended the loading of 6,000 wounded men on the English hospital ships ; they have carried on, in conjunction with the nursing staff, the Hospital St. Pierre at Dunkirk, which from November 25th to January 2nd and admitted 163 cases, the ‘civilian hospital’ at Ypres with 150 cases; and they ‘ambulanced’ upwards of 8,000 wounded men at the front, running their cars 22,000 kilometres.’
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