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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Washington and Lee University Ambulance Unit Papers, WLU Coll. 0278, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Matthew Paxton Sr. (WLU 1918) in 1983.

Biographical / Historical

The unit, headed by Forest Fletcher of the Washington and Lee University Physical Education Department, consisted of 36 volunteers from the student body and served in France 1917-1919.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence (1917-1919), histories, and memoirs of the Washington and Lee University Ambulance Unit during World War I.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Ambulances
• Correspondence
• Fletcher, Forest
• France
• Hopkins, William S.
• Paxton, Matthew W., Sr.
• Paxton, Matthew W., Sr.
• Personal narratives -- American
• Smith, Henry Louis
• World War (1914-1918)