[Broadside:] VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE DRIVERS WANTED FOR THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE HOSPITAL IN FRANCE ... [caption title]

New York: American Ambulance, [post Sept. 1914].. Printed broadside on onionskin paper, 28 x 21.5 cm, printed on recto only. Horizontal fold and a bit of tanning, some nicks and creases along the blank lower edge, but a very good example of a fragile item. A fine ephemeron associated with the raising and organization of US volunteers to serve as ambulance drivers attached to the American Ambulance Hospital in France and elsewhere at the Front during the Great War. The closely set text details qualifications, terms and nature of service, major and incidental expenses, equipment and personal gear to be either provided or brought by the volunteer, passports, application procedures, etc. The American Ambulance Hospital expanded to the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly to serve allied soldiers beginning in September 1914. Until the US entered the war in 1917, there was a regular flow of volunteers to serve in the Ambulance, including several individuals who would gain later prominence, among them E.E. Cummings and John Dos Passos, while others served as drivers with the Red Cross in other areas. Scarce.