WW1 Ambulances

A short film made about how the wounded soldiers were transported during the First World War as part of our Women in War community Project marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Supported by the HLF and Gateways to the First World War.

[@stevebatty7733]

Thank you for your production. In the late 1950s I had a doctor who served in the Ambulance Company 355: 314 Sanitary Train. Dr. Robert T. Jones 1877-1971. Dr. Jones was a captain during our involvement in World War 1.

[@alfiejamesproductions1945]

Aww no thank you for the inspiration and for taking the time to watch and listen to our work. We really appreciate it 😊

[@Tyrunner0097]

2:50 My great grandfather was an ambulance driver for the US Army during WW1, in both France and Belgium, and my grampa, his only son, told me that my great-grampa did have to go into the trenches during artillery attacks to get wounded men out. To know men like him were held in such high regard means a lot to me, especially because my great-grampa's parents were German immigrants who fled from the Kaiser in the late 1880s. I'm sure he was under scrutiny by many, and I wonder if some of those men who he saved ever knew that that ambulance driver who got them out was of full German ancestry.