Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-05
AMBULANCE COMPANY
RECEIVING RECRUITS
VIII De Almost. II Not Entirely, Up
TO Wnr Strength when Moved
to Camp Ice shortly.

Red Cross Ambulance COMPANY No.
&c continues it's growth. and efforts
are now being made to have the entire
quota of PA men ready before the COM
pany leaves for Camp Lee. Commando r
Lewis n few days ago had decided that
4 skeleton company of eighty men
was about all that he would be able
to muster by that time. However, APP
plications have been pouring in so
steadily lately that he now feels that
he will fall very little short of the
quota, if any. when he turns the COM
pany over TO Uncle Sam next Saturday
Men are volunteering from as far west
as Colorado. but the intention is to
| make No. i6 entirely Il home grow n
Southern article if this be possible.
AT a conference yesterday, Lieutcn-
ants Brunk. Hulcher and Lewis out
lined the courses OF instruction through
whiclH the men will be put Lectures
will prcccde the regular drills morning
and evening of week days. except
Saturday afternoon. which will be
free
The subjects in which the compa nv
Will be drilled extensively by mean ms
OF lectures and demonstrations will in
clude hrst aid work in all Of its
branches-carc of injured when NOV
ing them. first aid splinting all forms
OF fractures, methods of application
or the Red Cross pockets TO wounds
arrest of hcmorrhagc resuscitation
from drowning and gas poisoning. This
work Will be ab!? supervised by Lieu
tenants Q. &. Brunk and j. j. Hulcher
Inc men Will also be given full
training in military usages and GUS
IONS, in administration of sanitary
UNITS, and, III fact, efforts will be ma dc
10 put no. 10 on military footing
with even the line organization. which
is unusual for medical unit. This
work Will he supervised by Lieutcna mt
George > Hurt who has had consider
ahie experience in this line. The
courses IN camp sanitation and hygiene
and elementary nursing will be sIner
Intended by Lieutenant r. A. Moore
whose knowledge Of these subjects is
| extensive
The didactic lecture courses will ba
supplemented by field exercises Of n
practical nature throughout Follow
ing the lectures the men will be driD
=" IN military evolutions and in the
ambulance and litter drills for from
| lhree-iourths TO one and one.half
hours morning and evening. tho lime
being extended as the men become har
uehed. The outline Of days work
Tor an ambulance company has some
!
! lectures and drills are only two, there
iore small time for leisure will be en-
Joyed for the short intensive training
| At Camp Lee
| The men enlisted in the last TWENTY
four hours are:
Robert Shields Williams. 3l9 Third
Avenue. Highland Park
Frederick Paul Fulton, 20. South
Elm Street
Charles Henry Bchlcn. 500 East
! Grace Street
Walter d. Breckenridge. 1ol West
Main Street.
Irwin G. Craig. 2sl1 East Grace
Street
Frank Gordon Christian. SIS West
Grace Street
William y. Baldwin. Dumbarton. Va.
Lee Thornton Davis. Shadyhurst,
! hermitage Road
Harvey Douglas Powell. 3oo6 Ken
sington Avenue
Earl Eugene Silvey. 10 North Elm
Street.
Henry Allen Taylor. Is East Grace
street.
Jessie Howard Smith. POI Park Ave-
nue..
There arc still vacancies TO he filled.
ana thosc interested can obtain all in
formation from the commanding OFF,
| GER Lieutenant c. IL. Lewis. at the re-
| crhitlhS Office. ! North Boulevard