American Field Service & Ambulance Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Rare WWI Ambulance Service Unit History of Section 625 from early days of the original American Field Service right through to the United States Army Ambulance Service. Famous American Ace Frank Baylies was an early member. The unit history...

ARTIFACT: Rare, privately printed American Ambulance Field Service Book with the AFS in France, 2nd edition with tipped in page at front showing Croix de Guerre and letter at end for donations. Front of book reads: "WITH THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE FIELD...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare World War I St. John's Ambulance Corps for the International Red Cross lapel pin with blue, white and red enamel. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: About 3/4" in width by 1" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Silver plated...

ARTIFACT: WWII Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania women's volunteer organization badge: Memorial Gold Cross First Aid and Ambulance Corps which saw upwards of 2,000 members during the war. The round red, white, and blue enameled badge reads: "MEMORIAL GOLD...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II ambulance driver pin for the American Women's Auxiliary Defense Corps. The pin shows a red eagle against a blue cross and reads WADC in gold. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: Approximately 3/4" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1970s York, Maine Volunteer Fire Department ambulance vehicle tag. York is a popular vacation spot in southern Maine that was established in 1624 as Agamenticus (the mountain there still bears that name). VINTAGE: Circa 1970s...

ARTIFACT: This item is a rare pin from the late 1930's American Bureau for Medical Aid to China's (ABMAC's) Chinese Civilian Relief Fund. This celluloid pin was made by the US to help relieve China's devastation after the invasion by Japanese forces...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War I M1915 French Army Artillery "Adrian" helmet. It comes to us from the estate of Lieutenant William Edwin Bown, a 397 T.M.U. (397 Transport Militaire Unite, Groupe Hemart) driver from East Aurora, New York who served...

ARTIFACT: This is an American Red Cross aviation ambulance donation pin in celluloid from World War I. The pin is white with a red cross at center and the word AVIATION beneath. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 1" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is an early World War II donation pin by Coro for the British-American Ambulance Corps. The pin is a wing with the Union Jack and a crown bearing the letters RAF at center. VINTAGE: Circa early World War II. SIZE: 1-1/2" height and...

ARTIFACT: This is an extremely rare numbered unit badge for the Hadfield-Spears ambulance unit, a voluntary Anglo-French medical unit. The unit, originally known as the 282nd Light Surgical Ambulance Corps of the 4th French Army, operated from February...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I lapel pin for the St. John Ambulance Association Ambulance Brigade. The Ambulance Brigade began in 1887, ten years after the founding of the Association itself in the United Kingdom. The Brigade was primarily for...