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Friends in Flanders - Humanitarian Aid Administered by the Friends' Ambulance Unit During the First World War (Paperback)
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Friends in Flanders - Humanitarian Aid Administered by the Friends' Ambulance Unit During the First World War (Paperback)
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The Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) was created shortly after the
outbreak of war. The idea of the units founder, Philip J Baker, was
that it would provide young Friends (Quakers) with the opportunity
to serve their country without sacrificing their pacifist
principles. The first volunteers went to Belgium on 31 October
1914, under the auspices of the Joint War Committee of the British
Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The FAU
made a sustained contribution to the military medical services of
the Allied nations, establishing military hospitals, running
ambulance convoys, and staffing hospital ships and ambulance
trains, treating and transporting wounded men. Determined to bring
succour to all those in need, the FAU also assisted civilians
trapped in the war zone and living in desperate circumstances.
Nowhere was this more acute than in the besieged and battered town
of Ypres where thousands sheltered in the underground passage-ways
of the towns ancient fortifications -- a subterranean population,
hopeless, often lightless, wrote Geoffrey Young, the Units young
field commander, living on what they might and breeding disease.
The Unit provided hospitals for the treatment of civilians, and
worked intensively in the containment and treatment of the typhoid
epidemic that swept the region, locating sufferers, providing them
with medical care, and inoculating people against the disease. It
played a major role in the purification of the towns contaminated
drinking water, distributed milk for infants and food and clothing
to the sick and needy. It helped found orphanages, made provision
for schooling and organised gainful employment for refugees until,
finally, it became responsible for the definitive evacuations of
the civilian population.
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