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American Red Cross - Canteens - American Red Cross cares for American on leave in London, England. The enourmous influx of American soldiers on leave in London after the armistice flooded all hotel and hostel accomodations and many American soldiers found themselves at eleven or twelve o'clock without a place to sleep. The Red Cross threw open several of its large headquarters buildings and furnished the men with blankets and hot meals. Group of men arriving at Red Cross headquarters at midnight "canteened" in the big hallway

American Red Cross - Canteens - American soldiers on leave in London, England, get first meal in Red Cross Canteen at Headquarters. In good weather, the canteen is set up in outer courtyard of building, and doughnuts fried over a little portable stove. Women in the picture are: Anna Lansing of Albany, at stove, Lillian Baldwin of Lakewood, N.J., Mrs. Alan Campbell, and Helen Peterson of Chicago; Behind Miss Lansin is Major Marshall Hale, A.R.C. of San Francisco. Not soldier wearing captured German Helmet

American Red Cross - Canteens - American Sailors at Red Cross Canteen in Royal Law Courts, London, England. The "Great Hall" of the Law Courts served as dormitory for about a thousand men, for ten days after the signing of the armistice, and in one of the alcoves, the Red Cross canteen women set up their counter and furnished all comers with sanwiches, coffee, and various good things. Photograph taken at midnight

An American Red Cross Canteen "Somewhere in England. Several squadrons of those rolling canteens are now being used for American soldiers at the English ports and along the lines of communication by which American troops pass through England on their way to France. Standing behind the basket of sandwiches on top of the canteen is Major Foster H. Rockwell, head of the A.R.C. canteen service in Great Britain. Major Rockwell is a Yale graduate and a famous Yale football quarterback. The lady standing next to him is Mrs. A.H. Walker of Northampton, Massachusetts., one of he most active American canteen workers in England

American Red Cross - Headquarters & Buildings - Sunny morning with American newspapers in front of new American Red Cross Canteen Club at Winchester. Here nearly 1000 Americans who have been serving in British Units will pass through this camp during next 8 months. The Red Cross Club Canteen which has just been opened for these men at request of British authorities, is a huge concrete slab building the largest structure of its kind in England

American Red Cross - Canteens - American Red Cross Canteen at Liverpool. One of the American Red Cross rolling Canteens at the "Landing Stage Station" in Liverpool, where thousands of American soldiers and sailors and nurses have obtained their first taste of Englands' famous war bread. American Red Cross nurses, the last to arrive in England, got a hasty meal before the train left for London. They are on their way to France to serve with the army of occupation

American Red Cross - In the Zone of Advance - Activities - U.S. Canteens in France. Doughboys in front of the American Red Cross canteen in the St. Mihiel salient. They are waiting for their turn in distribution of doughnuts, cigarettes and magazines. This outpost outfit followed a few miles behind the doughboys in their new advance. When the American infantrymen dug in, the American Red Cross dug in also under a ruined house, started their fires, and within a few hours were serving thousands of weary but enthusiastic Americans with hot drinks and other comforts

American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - Owing to crowded condition of hotels in London the Red Cross has thrown open several of its office buildings in London, where soldiers and sailors on leave can have a place to sleep. Shows a group of men rolled up in their blankets in one of the offices of the Dept. of Military Relief at 52 Grosvenor Gardens

American Red Cross - Headquarters & Buildings - The exterior of American Red Cross Casual Canteen at Le Mans, France. There are 47 beds for officers and 250 for enlisted men. The canteen serves betrween five and six thousand meals every 24 hours, in the dinning room which seats 250 men. There are shower baths check rooms, tailors to sew on truant buttons and do general mending, an officers recreation room, and a large recreation hut for enlisted men, a large lunch counter where hot chocolate, coffee, and sandwiches are served between meal hours

American Red Cross - Canteens - The midnight canteen Red Cross headquarters at 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London. Every American soldier who comes finds a place to sleep in London and there are hundreds of them every night, is welcomed at Red Cross Headquarters, where he gets a fine meal at the canteen counter, and then is given a sleeping place in halls or offices of the big building. The men sleep in long rows on the the floors and tables. This was done for several nights during the period following the signing of the armistice, until other arrangements could be made for taking care of the big influx of American son leave in London

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