Embedded Files
Pictures from American Ambulance Field Service scrapbook of David T. Nelson: December 1915 through April 1916.
1. Men standing near ambulances - Neuilly
2. Quarters for the section - Jaulzy
3. Street scene - Mericourt
4. Scene outside building - Jaulzy
5. No identification
6. W. H. Woolverton receiving Croix de Guerre - Some men identified in picture
7. W. H. Woolverton and 2 other men after receiving medal
8. Sacy
9. Observation balloons (?) - Near Mericourt
10. Men in trenches
11.-14. Men standing by their ambulances
15. Inspection of ambulances (Location ?) See AAFS film, Part II
16. Scene from Jaulzy - probably their quarters
17. Chateau - not identified
18.-19. 2 pictures identified as Vic-sur-Aisne
20. No identification
21. St. Christophe
22.-23. Persons with gas masks
24. No identification - AAFS benefactors touring at front (Possibly Mrs. Anne Harriman Vanderbilt and others. She financed the purchase of ten ambulances and also made a tour to see what was being done.) See #86
25. Salisbury
26. David (?) fixing his engine - Mericourt
27. Chateau (see #17)
28. Drivers of Section 1 with some identification
29.-30. No identification
31. Entertainer who performed for unit
32. Vic, dog mentioned in various diaries.
33. Field - No identification
34. W. H. Woolverton at ceremony (see #6)
35. Drivers including DTN
36. Pile of human bones
37. Artist painting (Vic White?)
38.-41. Scenes of men and ambulances
42. David and ambulance
43. French artist, Tardieu
44.-46. Men at their quarters
47.-50. Various drivers. no identification
51. David in ambulance
52. Nelson, Ed Townsend and Roche
53. No identification
54. David
55. No identification
56. Inspection (?) (see #15)
57.-58. “75” gun placement
59. Shell damage
60. Berri - Further explanation on back of another copy of this photo
61. Vic -au-Aisne
62. Spaulding
63. No identification - ambulance
64. Jaulzy
65. Mericourt
66. Drivers - some identified
67. Inside quarters playing chess
68. Group picture with persons identified
69. Drivers fixing ambulance - no identification
70. Sections quarters - Mericourt
71. Ambulance at Mericourt
72. Ed Townsend’s ambulance destroyed, only front chassis left
73. Inspection (?) see #15
74. Rapp
75. Poste de secours - Cappy - See AASF film, Part II
76. Cemetery at Cappy (?) Burial of Médecin Chef killed 3/30/16 (?)
77. Bomb damage in Cappy
78. Person being fitted with gas mask
79. Group picture of drivers, no identification
80. Picture of “75” gun
81. Drivers and car - No identification
82. Le Blonde and Hutch
83. Damage to church - Cappy
84.-85. Trench seen from above ground
86. AAFS benefactor tour (?) See #24
87. Men in gas masks - no identification
88. Relaxing in quarters
89. “Brownie”
90. Damaged cathedral - Amiens (?)
91. Imbrie and Spaulding by ambulance
92. Man on horse - No identification
93.-94. Damaged cathedral - Amiens
95.-99. Scenes of men, ambulances, quarters
(Dave)
100. David in wrecked courtyard
101.-103. Country scenes
104. See # 15.
105.-109. Destroyed chateau, trenches, etc.
Dave?
110. French (?) soldiers
111. Aerial bomb (?) lying in field.
112.-114. Destroyed buildings and trees
15.-116. Destroyed cathedral
117. Two men in destroyed building - No identification
118. Cannon (size ?) being moved with horses
119. Ambulance in front of destroyed building
120. Soldiers with gas masks in trench
121.-124. Destruction photos
125. Men with dogs attached to wheeled carriers (Field ambulance ?)
126. Military or ambulanciers sitting in trenches or bunker
127. Tree destruction
128. Working on trenches
129. French(?) artillery loading a gun
130.-131. African (?) soldiers Loading soldier in ambulance
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