Very Nice!
Very Nice!
All of the French equipment that I have is connected with Americans that served as volunteer ambulance drivers with either the American Field Service or the Norton-Harjes Formation. These volunteers were required to pay their own way to France and purchase uniforms for themselves. The French government provided helmets, canteens, haversacks, gas masks and food for the volunteers and paid them the same rate as an ordinary private in the French army.
This is the helmet of a man named Lewis Gilger of SSU (Section Sanitaire Unis) 69.
More to come later,,but the kids just woke up!
An M2 gas mask and bag issued to an American Field Service camion (truck) driver.
A French military issue fez brought home as a souvenir by an American Field Service volunteer.
A French Colonial side cap pressed into use by an American Field Service volunteer named Roger Nutt. Nutt served in Section 17 which saw extensive action on the Verdun-Meuse sector in the summer of 1917.
The French issue canteen of Fred Kurth and the cup of Lewis Gilger. (note the cup is stained by "vin rouge"!)
Some souvenir postcards
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