American Field Service & Ambulance Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Beautiful copy Ambulance No. 10 Personal Letters From The Front by Leslie Buswell and printed by Houghton Mifflin Company – The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This example is the First Trade Edition of the previously private...

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...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Royal Air Force air ambulance donation badge. The pin is an enameled RAF wing atop a bull's-eye. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: 1-1/2" height and 1-1/2" width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gold-plated brass...