List of ambulance drivers during World War I

List of ambulance drivers during World War I

This is a list of notable people who served as ambulance drivers during the First World War. A remarkable number of luminaries, writers especially, volunteered as ambulance drivers for the Allied Powers. In many cases these luminaries sympathized strongly with the ideals of the Allied Powers but did not want to participate in a combat role. For women, of course, combat was not an option at the time. Several of the Americans on the list volunteered before American entry into the war. Many of the American writers would later be associated with the Lost Generation.

Writers

*Louis Bromfield - volunteer American Field Service
*William Slater Brown - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
*Malcolm Cowley - volunteer American Field Service
*Harry Crosby - volunteer American Field Service
*E. E. Cummings - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
*Kati Dadeshkeliani - Russian Army ambulance driver
*Russell Davenport - U.S. Army Medical Corps
*John Dos Passos - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
*Julian Green- volunteer American Field Service
*Ernest Hemingway - volunteer American Red Cross
*Robert Hillyer - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
*Sidney Howard - volunteer American Field Service
*John Howard Lawson - volunteer American Field Service
*Desmond MacCarthy
*Archibald MacLeish - U.S. Army ambulance driver, later as artillery captain
*John Masefield
*F. Van Wyck Mason - ambulance corps volunteer, later he joined the French Army then the U.S. Army
*Somerset Maugham - volunteer British Red Cross ambulance corps
*Charles Nordhoff - volunteer [American Field Service]
*Robert W. Service - volunteer [British red Cross]
*Sir Hugh Walpole - volunteer for Red Cross in Russia

Composers

*Maurice Ravel - volunteer ambulance driver or truck driver
*Albert Roussel
*Ralph Vaughan-Williams - Royal Army Medical Corps

Other Notable People

*Rene Clair - French filmmaker
*Jean Cocteau - French dramatist and filmmaker
*Stafford Cripps - British politician
*Walt Disney - American filmmaker and captain of industry
*Hélène Dutrieu - pioneering French aviator
*Ray Kroc - American entrepreneur of McDonald's Corporation fame
*Waldo Peirce - volunteer American Field Service - American painter
*Percy Toplis - notorious British deserter
*William A. Wellman - American film director

Individuals who served the Allies in a related capacity

*Algernon Blackwood - British Red Cross Searcher, trying to identify dead or lost soldiers - British author
*Archibald Cronin - Royal Navy surgeon - Scottish novelist
*Marjory Stoneman Douglas - volunteered for American Red Cross - eminent American conservationist
*Dorothy Canfield Fisher - volunteered to help blinded Allied soldiers - American social activist and author
*E.M. Forster - interviewed wounded in Egyptian hospitals - English novelist
*Anne Green
*Gertrude Stein - volunteer driver for French hospitals - American poet, playwright, feminist
*Edmund Wilson - American literary critic


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