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Caring for 
American Soldiers
in England

MORE THAN THREE hundred thousand American troops went 
to France during September. Half of those boys passed through 
England on the way.
That is the record for one month only. Thousands and thousands 
of Americans have gone to France via England.

Many have stopped there for extended periods, 
to receive additional training in the arts of war.
Many have been returned to England from the 
front to recuperate from their scars of battle.
The American Red Cross follows American 
troops wherever they may go. Where necessity 
warrants it goes before them.
The presence of such large numbers of Americans 
called for relief work expenditures in 
England of $4,313,566.00 up to June 30th, 1918. 
Plans to carry on this work to the end of the year 
call for additional disbursements of $4,483,800.00.
Beginning with the moment the American 
soldier leaves the home shore, the American Red 
Cross is ready to help at the first call.
A typical instance is when the transport Tuscania 
was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. American 
Red Cross representatives left London by the first 
train. They helped equip the survivors -- 
advanced them money -- assisted the various local 
agencies at work in caring for them -- visited 
practically all the sick and injured -- and were the last 
to leave the scene of the disaster.
Supplies are on hand now, at properly located 
points, to handle all such emergencies and to care 
for and outfit as many as six thousand shipwrecked 
Americans at a moment’s notice.
Red Cross hospital service in England grows in 
importance each week as American participation 
in battle increases.

The plans for disbursements in the current six 
months to January 1st provide for the equipment, 
maintenance, medicines and comforts for the 
hospitals at Paignton, Lancaster Gate, St. Catherine’s 
Lodge, Military Hospital No. 4 at Liverpool, the 
convalescent hospital at Wimbledon and a naval 
hospital on the coast of Wales.
There are fully equipped tent hospitals wherever 
there are small camps of American soldiers, 
especially at aviation camps.
More than fifty of such hospitals were 
established during September alone, to take care of 
minor ailment cases. They proved to be of great 
assistance during the recent prevalence of influenza 
in England.
Work is well advanced on three new hospitals -- 
one, near London, for naval men, is ready to be 
opened now; another, the Windsor Great Park 
Hospital, will provide 500 beds; the third, the 
Sarisbury Hospital, near Southampton, will be 
the largest American military hospital in England 
and will accommodate 3,000 wounded when completed -- 
1,200 beds are ready for occupancy 
already.
Camp work, home communication service and 
canteen service are conducted there along 
identically the same lines as similar Red Cross work is 
carried on in this country.
Numerous donations, amounting to $2,169,975.00 
to June 30th, have been made also to the British 
Red Cross, which organization has given such valuable 
help to the American Red Cross in caring for 
Americans during their stay in England.

Bulletin No. 7
-- issued by the War Council of the American Red Cross 
to show the people of America how their generous 
contributions are being expended in the interest of humanity.