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GARDEN FETE AT BARD HOME TO RAISE WAR RELIEF FUNDS(From Monday’s Dally Courier.*A garden fete lo raise money for war relief will be given at the home of Mrs. Thomas J(. Bard In Hueneme on the afternoon of Saturday, April 14. The main part of the prlt;»ceeds will go to the American ambulance Held service fund, while the rest will go to the commission for relief in Belgium.The American ambulance Held service is an outgrowth of the American ambulande hospital, which is situated in a suburb of Paris, and both have made an excellent record since the war began for the work they have done. As the quick transportation of wounded Trom the front to the nearest hospital Is so great, a factor in saving their lives, the American ambulance field service was organized soon after the beginning of the war and its record has demonstrated its value to France. It has now more I than 200 motor ambulances in the Held. They nre driven by American volunteer drivers who enlist in the service for six months. To them 1* entrusted the vitally important workof bringing the wounded in the short-est possible time from the trenches to places where the first surgical aid can be given. The ambulances are grouped in units of 20 to 30 cars each and attached to the various secUons of the French army.Two books written by these volunteer American ambulance drivers are among the best and most interesting books which have been written concerning the war. One of these is Friends of France”, and the other is Ambulance No. 10”. by Leslie Bus-well. The first is written by several of the men, each one contributing a Chapter, and so gives different phases of the work. The other is written by one of the men attached to the unit in Lorraine and which was stationed near Nancy In northern Franco. This unit had some of the severest service which the ambulance corps has seen. Both books nre in the public libraries In Oxnard and Hueneme.lefails concerning the garden fete will be given later.
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Oxnard Courier
Oxnard, California, US
Fri, Apr 06, 1917
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