Schaeffersheim in 1918-1919

This is a testimony of the arrival of a US Ambulance unit in Schaeffersheim, Alsace, France just after the Armistice in 1918.

This unit was: SECTION 12/ 630 AFS


" Not long after our arrival in Saint-Dié came news of the Armistice. Orders were immediately forthcoming for us to move into Alsace, which we did about the 15th and 17th of November. Though this convoy was of not a long distance, it took us several days to accomplish it, due to the technicalities of the German withdrawal from Alsatian soil. Passing through Provenchères and Saales, we made our first stop at Ville (Veiler). From there we went to Barr the next day, and two days following our arrival in Barr, on to Erstein-Schaeffersheim, twenty kilometres south of Strasbourg.

December, January and February passed for us in the rural community of Schaeffersheim. February brought vague rumors of going home, and finally we began our last trip. Early one morning, the 28th of February, we left Strasbourg for Paris."



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Source: The History of the United States Ambulance Service 1917-1919

Ambulance

The US Ambulance services enter Alsace in 1918


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