WAR PICTURES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2380, 9 February 1915, Page 6

WAR PICTURES

FAMOUS SINGER AS CHAUFFEUR. • Sir Frederick Treves describes Red Cross work in the north of France m an interesting report issued oil Tuesday by the British Red Cross Society. He Sa "The fleet of motor-ambulances provided by the society represents, in my opinion, the most valuable service ever Tendered-to the Army Medical Department in the form of voluntary aid. The majority are working at the front in convoys of various sizes. . When tbey come down with patients they return with stores for the wounded. In Boulogne a number of our ambulances stand ready night and day for whatever transport may be required. ■ "Almost before the ambulance train, from the front has pulled 'up at the platform our orderlies are at work. 1 law a full train discharged and can only say that I have never seen a convoy evacuated with such rapidity and precision. The wounded are taken _oir at once to the wards or to the hospital addition to the motor-ambulancei; the society has many other cars which are of great service ill. dispatch work and the conveyance "of goods; a largo number of these have been lent, lhe chauffeur who was kind enough to drive me to Le Touquet was.Mr. Kennerlcy Rumford, the famous singer. Another driver of note is the vicar of a quiet country parish in England. . "The most curious car 1 rode m was driven by a Belgian. It hod once been very elegant, being a town car of a fashionable type, but it is now the colour of the earth. It belonged to a gentleman, at Lille who fled from that town on the approach of the Germans. Hie present whereabouts is entirely miknown. In this flight he left his chauffeur, the Belgian, behind, but when in due course the chauffeur fled he very thoughtfully took the car wrth him, and after many adventures reached isoulo<me and handed himself over to the British Red Cross Society, m who e employ he now is. He seemed little disturbed by the fact that he had taken the car out without his master's leave. "These motor drivers are as curious a body of men as were the conductors in the South African War. A rider on a motor-cycle, was to me. He was worsrng with distinction at tho front, and had just come some sixty miles with a dispatch. He was merely a bundle ot rags, splashed with mud., and I was surprised to hear that he was a much-respected Church of England curate.