Friends of France; . r in theircellars before the shell arrived. Whenever we heardthe sirens our duty was to run into the city and searchfor the injured, and during the succeeding weeksmany severely wounded were carried in our ambu-lances, including women and children — so fre-quently the victims of German methods of American ambulance cars were the only cars onduty during these different bombardments and theleader of the Section was awarded the Croix deGuerre for the services which they performed. In the summer a quieter period set in. Sunnyweather made life agreeable and in their
Friends of France; . r in theircellars before the shell arrived. Whenever we heardthe sirens our duty was to run into the city and searchfor the injured, and during the succeeding weeksmany severely wounded were carried in our ambu-lances, including women and children — so fre-quently the victims of German methods of American ambulance cars were the only cars onduty during these different bombardments and theleader of the Section was awarded the Croix deGuerre for the services which they performed. In the summer a quieter period set in. Sunnyweather made life agreeable and in their greater leis-ure the men were able to enjoy sea-bathing and walksamong the sand dunes. A regular ambulance servicewas kept up in Dunkirk and the surrounding towns,but part of the Section was moved to Coxyde, a smallvillage in the midst of the dunes near the sea betweenthe ruined city of Nieuport and La Panne, the resi-dence of the Belgian King and Queen. Here weworked for seven weeks, among the Zouaves and the 128. x ^ A GROUP OF AMERICAN DRIVERS IN NORTHERN FRANCE
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