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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
ARMISTICE
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11 NOVEMBER 1918
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page 3
Datford
Victory Day at Dartford Hospital.
The signing of the armistice was celebrated by everybody in the big American base hospital
near London in noisy hilarious fashion.
There was a big parade with 1500 wounded men in line.
The hosptial nursing arranged a number of "Victory floats"
which are used to caryy surgical dressings around the wards.
The photograph shows one of these tiny floats
December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
The "Victory Parade" at the American Base Hospital, Dartford, near London, on Nov. 11,
when the sigining of the armistice was announced.
Nurses from the Brooklyn unit carried a big American flag in the front of the procession,
which marched over a three mile route,
around the hospital grounds and through the German prison camp adjoining the American hospital
December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
The "Victory Parade" at the American Base Hospital, Dartford, near London, on Nov. 11.
when the signing of the armistice was annouced.
The men on crutches were invited to parade in automobiles,
but most of them preferred to walk and they occupied honored place in the line of march
1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
Victory Day at Dartford Hospital.
The signing of the armistice was celebrated by everybody in the big American base hospital
near London in noisy hilarious fashion.
There was a big parade with 1500 wounded men in line.
The hosptial nursing arranged a number of "Victory floats"
which are used to caryy surgical dressings around the wards.
The photograph shows one of these tiny floats
December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
The big victory parade at the American Base Hospital at Dartford, near London,
on Nov. 11th, when the armistice wnet into effect.
The parade was led by Miss Annie Mack of Brooklyn, the chief nurse, and Mrs. Arthur Robinson,
the chief of the American women at the hospital. Mrs. Robinson,
who comes from Baltimore, is carrying the Red Cross flag.
The officer next to her is carrying the American flag
Photographer : American Red Cross Official
5 December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
The "Victory Parade" at the American Base Hospital, Dartford, near London, on Nov. 11
when the signing of the armistice was announced. Many of the convalescent American soldiers
in the parade carried noise-making instruments of such character
as they were able to muster hurriedly.
Some are shown with pots and pans, others with boards which could be banged together
to add to the general din.
Certainly everybody was hilariously happy and showed it
Datford
The "Victory Parade" at the American Base Hospital at Dartford, near London, on Nov. 11
when the signing of the armistice was announced.
After the parade had marched all through the Hospital,
somebody suggested that it go through the German prison camp,
which is located behind a wide barb-wire enclosure a few hundred yards
down the road from the hospital.
So admission was obtained and the American parade marched all through the German Prison camp, enthusiastically applauded by the Germans,
who were just as happy as anybody over the coming of peace.
The regulations did not permit the photographer to take any pictures of the parade after is was inside the prison camp proper, but this picture is taken just at the entrance, the building in the background being the administration building
and the barracks of the British staff which guards the prisoners.
The spectators lined up along the route of the parade are all members of the British Guard.
The Prisoners are all further in on a long hut
2 December 1918
Photographer : ARC. Commission to England.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
The much-redecorated Red Cross car announces to go to the Commandant of the American hospital at Dartford, near London, that the armistice has been signed.
The Commander Major Moses of Brooklyn, immediately ordered a parade.
"Every man who can walk must get out and celebrate." he commanded
December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
A great crowd gathered about the Red Cross car which announced the signing of the armistice
to the Americans at the big base hospital at Darford near London.
As the car reached the larger ward buildings there was pandemonium.
The man in the wheel chair forgets his ailments, and to the horror of his nurse,
jumps up almost too fast for the camera,
and rushed over to get one of the little news sheets which the Red Cross messenger is distributing
5 December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
What the announcement of the armistice did at the Dartford. It overturned wheel chairs,
caused crutches to be discarded,
littered the ground with pots and pans and wherever everybody happened to be carrying,
for everything was dropped in a wild ouburst of noisy hilarity and merrymaking.
And Ward "H" was only one of a score of similar scenes being enacted
in all parts of the hospital grounds
5 December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Datford
Armistice celebration at the Amer. Hosp. at Dartford near London.
The Red Cross car stood about the hosp. grounds distributing extra rations of chocolate
and cigarettes, and wherever it went it was the center of hilarious celebration.
The excellent effect of such a celebration on the patients is seen
by the fact that three crutches have evidently been thrown aside as unnecessary
by patients who forgot their troubles in the midst of the merry making.
December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
London
The great victory parade in front of Buckingham Palace
after the signing of the armistice.
Nearly three thousand American soldiers marches through the city in an impromptu procession.
After visiting American Army headquarters,
American Navy headquarters, and the big Red Cross buiding nearby,
they proceeded to Buckingham Palace, where the king spoke to them from the balcony.
The photograph shows the crowd as seen from the running board of a Red Cross car
Photographer : American Red Cross Official
5 December 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)