From the archive: The Friends’ Ambulance Unit
Janet Scott continues her series on the Friend and the first world war and writes about the dangerous work of volunteers
The 21 September issue of the Friend in 1917 contained a special report on the work of the Friends’ Ambulance Unit (FAU). From November 1914, when about forty high-spirited young men set out on a great adventure that began with tending the wounded in a Dunkirk shed and carrying stretchers to ships, the Unit had grown in size and in its range of work. There were 592 members in France and Belgium, not only working in ambulance convoys and ambulance trains, but also in a hospital, recreation huts for soldiers, civilian health and evacuation work. Behind it all, were cooks, motor engineers, stores and headquarters.
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