Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
HARRISBURG BOY
TO SEE SERVICE IN
EUROPEAN WAR
jackson Herr Boyd Will Join
American Ambulance Hos
pital Corps
FRIENDS ALREADY THERE

Jackson Herr Boyd. son of the late
John Y. Boyd, of this city. will sail
April % on the Chicago, an ocean liner
plying between New York and Bor-
deaux. France, as a member of the
American Ambulance Hospital Corps
for active service in that country.
Although uncertain as TO the exact
nature of the work, Mr.. Boyd is keenly
anxious to accomplish what good he
may in the splendid work that is being
done by so many young American col
lege and university men on the French
front. As a corporal of an eight-man
squad at Plattsburg last summer he
absorbed much tirst-hand knowledge
of the requirements of military serv-
ice that will unquestionably stand him
in good stead in the work that he has
undertaken in the interest of the
Allies.
To Study French Methods
The presence in France i'm this line
of service of many of his friends has
done as much as anything TO persuade
this ardent supporter OF the principle
of preparedness to cast his lot with
them. and it is his purpose to make n
detailed study of the French methods
of training and military action, which
will be of ineStimable value to the
cause of preparedness in this country
i'm so far as he will be able to con-
tribute to it. For a long time he has
been intensely interested in the proper
preparedness propaganda and re-
Gently eNerted his influence in creating
popular interest in the PlattSbur%
training camp idea among the students
of the Harrisburg Academy, many of
whom have signilied their intention Of
attending the splendid outdoor tented
city where they will be carefully in
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Mr.. Boyd has enlisted for q period
of six months. and if the war continues
after that time he may or may not
continue in active service with the
ambulance corps. Some of the young
drivers are naturally subjected to some
danger in the course of their missions
of mercy from the front to the hos
pital. but there have been compare
lively few fatalities in this branch of
the service.
-.b y Princeton Graduate
jackson Herr Boyd is a graduate OF
Princeton University and for several
years has been active i'm the interests
of his fathers estate. He was but re-
Gently elected a director of the Dau-
phin Deposit Trust Company and has
other interests in this city. Very ath
letiC in build, Mr.. Boyd's activities
have kept him out of doors with the
result that he is the ideal type for the
sort OF work in which he is so in
terested. The richness of the expert
enCe which he is about to enjoy has
filled him with enthusiasm for the
project, and, judging from his success
and popularity in the things which he
has undertaken in college and out Of
it. Harrisburg will be represented at
the front by one i'm whom it may take
. just pride. Mr.. Boyd will take up
his duties as q soldier with the llnowl-
edge that he has the best wishes and
hopes of good fortune from his many
friends in this and other cities i'm his
venture into the war zone. In his alb
sence his brother, James Boyd. who
arrived from the South to-day. will
look after the interests of the estate.