Frederick Beattie University of Washington Ambulance Corps scrapbook, 1917-1919.

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Frederick Beattie University of Washington Ambulance Corps scrapbook, 1917-1919.

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This scrapbook contains photographs, telegrams, maps and the Section Log of Section 571, describing the Ambulance Corp's activities during World War I. The log includes a brief history of the Corps formation, lists of the soldiers belonging to Section 571, including transfers, accounts of where they went and what they did, and even a poem written by one of its members. The scrapbook also contains four hand-drawn maps; two of these maps trace the unit's journey from Italy into France, and two trace the routes that they drove along the Western Front. In addition, there is a map of the Western Front, printed in German. There are telegrams from the Fathers Association of the University of Washington Ambulance Corps, and some of the demobilization records. The scrapbook also contains three photographs of the Ambulance Corps, as well as an account book that belonged to Frederick G. Beattie while he was with Section 571.

1 v. ; 30 centimeters.

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University of Washington

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United States. Army. Ambulance Service

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The United States Army Ambulance Service, also known as the USAAS, was created by presidential order May 18, 1917, for the duration of the "existing emergency." It incorporated the civilian volunteer units already in France: the American Field Service and the American Red Cross Ambulance Service. Col. Jones was the commanding officer; Lt. Col. McFarland was the executive officer. An included copy of the demobilization orders gives that date as Jan. 24, 1919. From the description of O...

Beattie, Frederick G.

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The University of Washington's Ambulance Corps formed shortly after the United States entered World War I in 1917. It was organized from University of Washington students in the spring of 1917, as a volunteer Red Cross unit, Ambulance Company 12, with D.C. Hall as commanding officer. Ambulance Co. 12 was reorganized into three Sections of the United States Army Ambulance Service. Section 571, with 1st Lieutenant Frederick G. Beattie, departed for France on August 29, 1918, and subse...