A. TEGLA DAVIES
FRIENDS AMBULANCE UNIT

 

Illustrations

1. Thomas L. Tanner

2. Dr. Rutter at Manor Farm

3. Training in First Aid

4. Ready for Service: the Finland Party

5. "Vast quantities of snow had to be cleared away"

6. "The journey of fifteen miles took ten hours": Finland to Norway

7. "The Unit was growing fast": a corner of Gordon Square

8. The Student's Hostel

9. Preparing shelter bunks

10. The "Queen's Messengers"

11. "A horse-box was converted into an office on wheels": Mobile C.A.B.

12. En route to Egypt: South Africa, August 1942

13. "The Unit's life became the life of the desert"

14 Hospital work in South Africa

15 and 16. The Hadfield Spears Hospital

17. "It all helped to break them in": with S.I.84155

18. In the Saar area: the Ardennes offensive

19. "They would help with carrying in the boxes and tables": a Syrian village

20. Syria: the clinic worker

21. Syria: the clinic patient

22. A clinic at work: Syria

23. The hospital: Tel Tamer

24. Ethiopia: an operation in progress

25. Addis Ababa: the lepers' children

26. Ethiopia: what it had been

27. Ethiopia: what it might be

28. The Retreat with Stilwell: Burma, May 1942

29. Cargoes for China: medical supplies

30. The agony of China

31. "Wholesale inoculations of soldiers and civilians"

32. A roadside "fan tien"

33. "Always the end of the road": Unit premises at Kutsing

34. "The age of the charcoal burner had arrived"

35. "Down the wicked twenty-four bends beyond Annan"

36. China: mobile hospital and surgery at Paoshan

37. Bengal: B.C.P.C. Mobile Dispensaries

38. "The cholera demon spread fear"

39. Bengal: a children's canteen

40. "A scheme of village reconstruction was designed"

41. In a rehabilitation centre: Bengal

42. An Emergency Hospital in Britain

43. "Scrubbed up for the theatre"

44. "The ideal centre was found .. at Failand"

45. No. 1 M.H.F.A.U. in training: the Middle East

46. Middle East relief work

47. "... food---especially for children"

48. "The constant influx of fresh refugees"

49. "The most obvious thing that one sees is destruction"

50. Houses under construction: the Aventino valley

51. The food caique arrives: Igoumenitsa

52. The old and the new: Jugoslavia. Steam disinfector and U.N.R.R.A. bacteriological laboratory

53. Displaced Persons on the move North-West Europe

54. "A mixture of innumerable nationalities"

55. The Refugee: North-West Europe

56. "Transport was the urgent need"

57. "Horse-drawn convoys of Hungarians"

58 and 59. Austria: "The children are quite indistinguishable from schoolboys and schoolgirls everywhere else"

60. Post-War Service: Kvalsund, Finmark

61. Post-War Service: Le Chambon, France

 

MAPS

1. Scandinavia

II. The Mediterranean Area

III. Ethiopia

IV. The Far East

V. Southern Europe

VI. North-West Europe and Austria


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