U.S.A. AMBULANCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1940, Page 7

U.S.A. AMBULANCES

OFFERED TO FREE FRENCH FORCES. AND ACCEPTED BY GENERAL DE GAULLE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 17. General de Gaulle has accepted on behal) of the Free French forces an offer by the American field services to provide ambulances and volunteer drivers. In a letter to General de Gaulle the national executive chairman of the committee of the American field services emphasises that volunteer drivers who served with the French army in France have now returned to the United States and are again anxious to serve with the French. He points out that the services provided ambulances and volunteer drivers for 66 French divisions in the last war. By 1918, 250 out of 2500 volunteers from more than 100 United States colleges and universities had been decorated for bravery in carrying wounded from front line trenches to dressing stations. "There is no doubt,” says General de Gaulle’s reply accepting the offer, “that in the near future American ambulance units will be serving with the Free French forces either in the Free French Empire or in England.”