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RPPC photo postcard of wounded soldiers standing in front of American Red Cross Hospital in Budapest Hungary. Nurses and doctors also present. Note two soldiers in front row who have faces distorted by wounds.
The Austro-Hungarian army fought on the German side in WW1.
Scarce photo.
Printed on back ‘Rivoli, Budapest, Rákoczi út 30.'
Written in pencil “2 in front row have front of their faces blown away. Returning home after being patched up at A.R.C. Hospital Budapest”
Unsent.
Light toning on back.
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
During the period of US neutral intervention during the war, domestic organizations like the American Red Cross saw in the conflict a great humanitarian crisis that beckoned large-scale medical relief. In 1914, the American Red Cross organized the S.S. Red Cross – the “Mercy Ship” expedition, which would carry medical supplies, and 170 trained nurses and doctors to Europe to provide medical relief to soldiers and to fight against the calamities of war. Personnel from the Mercy Ship units served in hospitals in both Allied and Central Power nations, as neutral units throughout Europe: Paignton, England; Pau, France; Kiev, Russia; Kosel and Gleiwitz, Germany; Budapest, Hungary; and Vienna, Austria.
http://exhibits.library.yale.edu/exhibits/show/wwimedicine/military-nursing
