WWI - 1918-19, France: AEF Charitable Hospital & Ambulance Units & Patients

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - 1918-19, France: AEF Charitable Hospital & Ambulance Units & Patients Soldier w/ binoculars looking over many barracks in distance, from beneath tree; walks off right. 04:43:41 Interior of Bazeilles, France hospital w/ patients & nurses; military doctors working on / cleaning & dressing wound. MCU medics, doctors. nurses & other patients. MS smiling, laughing, applauding patients. 04:45:13 Recuperating soldiers walking w/ canes, crutches, wheelchairs on path; others sitting under trees w/ hospital barracks behind. Group of troops posing under trees, many smoking cigarettes. 04:46:21 View along covered walkway between hospital barracks, many troops walking to/from camera. 04:46:51 Two nurses w/ milk buckets in front of sign w/ arrow: American Red Cross Restaurant. One looks at wrist watch & they hurry off across muddy ground; others carrying trays. 04:47:14 Two Red Cross nurses pose w/ recuperating injured in sunshine at Soissons, w/ US (?) officer & French officer. MCU nurse & patient sitting in canvas chair; nurse alone in MCU. 04:48:02 Luzancy, France. Mayor talking w/ medical personnel (largely women) in uniforms on building steps, presents medal / decoration & handshakes, pan across, Group walking away / towards camera from municipal building w/ French & American flags. 04:48:39 LS large group outside Hospital St Nicolas aka Ambrine Hospital, Issy Molineux. MS recuperating patients on lawn & porch, pan some walking w/ canes; MS bandaged & others sitting on chairs. French officer w/ nurse talking to patients. 04:49:38 CU Nurse in white uniform wearing medal talking w/ young officer. 04:50:04 MS Ambulance arriving in front of same building past patients sitting; they walk over & watch unloading of stretcher, another arrives & walking wounded helped out & into hospital. MLS column of ambulances past, leaving. MLS parked ambulances in front of building w/ camouflage netting above & US insignia over doorway; nurses out & shake hands w/ ??. CU nurse posing / talking w/ American politician (?) in straw hat, laughing. LS same building w/ patients outside, ambulances past leaving. 04:53:04 Chateau Thierry. Stretchers w/ wounded on ground beside ambulance & soldiers; carried onto boat / canal barge, down steps followed by nurse. Ambulance arrives, stretchers taken onto barge & placed on bunk rack, nurse tending. Officers looking at papers, talking w/ nurses. American Ambulance Field Service (?) driver in US uniform beside truck, unloading blankets onto barge; crate opened w/ matches or ??? WW1; AEF / American Expeditionary Forces; Medical; Medicine; Treatments; 1917; 1918; 1919; NOTE: Hospital St Nicolas known for treating both shell burns & frostbite w/ Ambrine vapors, a treatment discovered by Doctor Barthe de Sandfort. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk