The American Ambulance Field Service was comprised of American volunteers who evacuated injured French soldiers from the Western Front to military hospitals during the First World War using converted Ford Model Ts donated by Americans. DTN was an AAFS ambulance driver from December 1915 through April 1916.
Materials included are
DTN's pictures during his service in the AAFS.
A promotional video of the AAFS (which includes pictures of DTN)
"A Brief History of the American Field Service," a talk delivered by John P. Nelson for the Symra Society on April 1997
"On the Death of Richard Neville Hall," January 2, 1916¹
"Champagne, 1914-1915," a poem by Alan Seeger²
"Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France," a poem by Alan Seeger
Letter about the signed dinner menu card (as shown in the Letters and Diaries of David T. Nelson, 1914-1919)
For information about the AFS which includes some of DTN's material, please visit http://www.the-afs-story.org/
Notes:
¹ The tribute to Richard Neville Hall was included in DTN's scrapbook. Hall was the first ambulance volunteer killed which happened on Christmas Eve, 1915. I assume David heard this sermon on January 2, 1916, and asked for a copy.
² The poems of Alan Seeger were included in his scrapbook, too. Seeger was killed in France on July 4, 1916, after joining with the French Foreign Legion (American citizens were not allowed to join the French forces early on, and by joining the Foreign Legion he could avoid that prohibition). He was living in Paris, writing and living the Bohemian life with other friends from the US when the war started. He had planned to read his poem, Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France, in Paris on May 30, 1916, then called Decoration Day but now called Memorial Day. If you have a further interest in Alan Seeger I suggest you check online and find his poems and the book of his letters and diaries. The forward to his book of poetry written by William Archer is quite interesting. The poems are available on the Project Gutenberg website: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/617. The letters and diary are available on a Brigham Young University website: http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/Seeger/Alan1.htm