Description: | Two albums covering the service of Bernard Heape as a volunteer ambulance driver in the French sector of the Western Front primarily in Alsace and at Verdun with Section Sanitaire Anglais (SSA) No 1 of the French Red Cross 27 March 1915 - 19 November 1918. Excellent coverage of the unit as well as the following:
Scenes in Dieffmatten, Belfort (including the French airship base), Le Rudlin, Lac Noir, Village Negre, Luneville (Feb - June 1916), Verdun (July, November & December 1916, September 1917, Jan - April 1918), Souville, Tannois, Commercy (Sept - Nov 1916 and Aug- Oct 1918 ), Thuizy, Pont-Issus, Bois Sacre and Bois Carre, Fleury, Urgency Cases Hospital at Faux Miroir at Revigny, Sermaize les Bain before and after the Battle of the Marne (September 1914), Metz after the French entry into the city (November 1918)
Personalities featured: General Thevenet; Lord Beresford; President Poincare; Generals Riberpray and Baratier of the French 128 Division (shortly before they were killed); General Pougin of the French 39 Division, Lord Nunburnholme; President Poincare, Marshal Petain, Joffre, Pershing, Haig and Clemenceau at the formal French entry into Metz (18 November 1918). |