L.D. Geller
AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE ARCHIVES
of World War I, 1914-1917

From the AFS Photographic Archives

Cover photo, The Harvard University Unit, Section 30. Section 30 prepared to leave Paris for the Front, April 1917, under command of Ralph Richmond, seventh from the left

Frontispiece, men of American Field Service in front of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's model of the Statue of Liberty, Paris, circa late 1915, early 1916

Ford Motor Company employees with their donated ambulances in the courtyard of the Lycée Pasteur, American Hospital of Paris, 1914

Early field ambulances at the garage of American Hospital of Paris, Lycée Pasteur, circa 1914-1915

Ambulances of The American Hospital Transportation Department, pictured outside of The Lycée Pasteur, circa 1915, early 1916.

American Hospital orderlies unloading a wounded soldier at The Lycée Pasteur, Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Paris circa 1915, early 1916. Reproduced with the permission of The American Hospital of Paris

Ambulance Drivers in the court yard of The Lycée Pasteur, Neuilly-sur-Seine Paris, circa 1915, 1916. Reproduced with the permission of The American Hospital of Paris

A wounded French soldier in an ambulance of The American Hospital, Lycée Pasteur, Neuilly-sur-Seine, circa 1915, early 1916. Reprinted with permission of The American Hospital of Paris

Main hall and staircase of American Field Service Headquarters 21 rue Raynouard, Paris 1917

A.P. Andrew, Trubee Davison, John C. Taylor next to birdcage used for railhead evacuation in Paris to The American Hospital, Neuilly-Sur-Seine, August, 1915 915

Henry Suckley, Chef de Section 10, killed in action, March 19, 1917 at Koritza, Albania while serving in The American Field Service

Ambulance bodies in the course of construction at the garage of The American Hospital of Paris, Lycée Pasteur, circa 1915

Stephen Galatti, pictured in the uniform of The American Hospital at Neuilly circa 1915. Galatti drove ambulances in section 3 of The American Field Service in the Vosges before becoming Adjutant to A.P. Andrew at AFS Headquarters

French 'Brancardiers' (stretcher bearers), loading an AFS Ambulance in the Vosges, 1916

Lovering Hill, Chef, de Section 3 in the Vosges 1915-1916

Section 3, at Mollau, Alsace, 1915. From left, Chef de Section, Lovering Hill, Philip T. Cate, Waldo Peirce, Benjamin F. Dawson, David B. Douglass, J. Marquand Walker, Sous Chef de Section, Arthur Graham Clarey, J.R.O. Perkins, Robert Matter, Richard N. Hall, Louis Hall, Tracey J. Putnam, Allyn Jennings

Roger Balbiani (Cdt. Adjt., S.S.U.1) with Poilus and Pig "Guillaume," Crombeke, Flanders 1915

Charles Freeborn, The Duc De Clermont-Tonnerre and A.P. Andrew starting from Crombeke (Belgium), July

S.S.U. 10 (The Stock Exchange Section) on the way to France November 11, 1916. In the center is A.P. Andrew. Next to him, with the derby, the AFS Chief American Administrator, Henry Sleeper, on the extreme right, Henry Suckley, head of the unit. Left Front row with the pipe, Mark Brennan

Left, Stephen Galatti: Adjutant Right, A. Piatt Andrew, Inspector General, American Field Service in France, circa 1916

The garden gate exit from the Automobile Park at American Field Service headquarters, 21 rue Raynouard, Paris

The Christmas Party of December, 1917 at AFS headquarters, 21 rue Raynouard, Paris. Note by that time, many former AFS met wore the uniform of the American Services

AFS staff in the garden of 21 rue Raynouard circa 1916. Standing from left, Stephen Galatti, Peter Kent on right, standing A.P. Andrew

French brancardiers (stretcher bearers), and poilus (French soldiers) unloading a Section 1 AFS Ambulance, Dugny, Verdun 1916

Joseph G. Weld's Section Ambulance on the road to Poste de Secours number 2, Bois d'Avocourt, Verdun, January 1917

L. Brooke Edward's photograph of Section 1 being decorated for valor at Verdun, July 1916

Section 2 at Vadelaincourt Verdun Front, March 1916. Left to right around the table; Rodger Griswold, Kenneth Marr, John R. Graham, Carroll Riggs, Harold Willis and Henry Iselin

Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt and Ed Tinkham (S.S.U.3) at Auberge St. Pierre (Poste beyond Pont-à-Mousson), Verdun Front, Aug. 1916

Tending the wounded on the Verdun Front, 1916

Section Four at Ippécourt, Verdun Sector, 1916, Artillery shells exploding in the background

Headquarters of Section 4 Ippécourt Verdun Sector, August 1916. From left, M. de la Serre (famous French painter), The Duke of Clermont-Tonnerre, Chef de Section Oliver Hazard Perry, Lt. Baron de Turckheim of the French Army, Maréchal de Logis (Sergeant), Paul Dellanoy, A. Piatt Andrew, Inspector General, AFS

Chef Jack Phillips, Lieutenant Doughairet, French Army, Herman H. Harjes, father of Norton-Harjes Ambulance Sections which sometimes worked with the AFS

Life in the field, a Norton-Harjes ambulance section that worked with AFS evacuating wounded, probably at Verdun circa 1916

A White repair truck of the MS

Section 1 Kitchen Trailer in the Field. Note the Section Indian Head logo painted on the trailer's side

Section 64 ambulances in the park of American Field Service headquarters, 21 rue Raynouard, Paris, early Spring, 1917

Sigurd Hansen S.S.U.4 photograph of the Tranchée de Calonne in the Meuse District, September 1916

Map of the American Field Service in the Balkans, 1916,1917

AFS with the French Army of the Orient, the Balkans 1916-1917 Ambulances of SSU 10 working Poste De Secours at Gorica, Albania, March 1917

Map of the American Field Service in France 1915, 1916,1917

Robert Carter's Drawing, Somewhere in France. The American Ambulance driver of the American Hospital of Paris and the wounded French poilus, circa 1915

SSU 10 staff car and men in the Albanian Mountains over which AFS drivers operated ambulances with the French Army of the Orient, 1917

Stephen Galatti in the uniform of a Major in the United States Army Ambulance Service, circa 1918

A. Piatt Andrew in the uniform of a Lt. Colonel in the United States Army Ambulance Service, circa 1918

Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, T.M.U. 184, Charcoal sketch of Commandant Richard Mallet, Commander of the AFS Reserve Mallet, 1917

Table of Contents