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Ernest Hemingways enlistment with the American Red Cross during World War I was one of the most formative experiences of his life, and it provided much of the source material for A Farewell to Arms and his writings about Italy and the Great War. As significant as it was, Hemingways service has never been sufficiently understood. By looking at previously unexamined documents, including the letters and diary of Hemingways commanding officer, Robert W. Bates, official reports of the ambulance and canteen services, and section newspapers published by volunteers, author Steven Florczyk provides crucial insights into Hemingways service.
The book opens by sharing tales of the volunteer ambulance units from the Western Front, which also led to the involvement of the American Red Cross in Italy. This was where Hemingway came to know many of the experienced drivers from France. In the spring of 1918 the young writer enlisted, serving first with an ambulance unit in Schio and then as a canteen worker at the Piave River until he was wounded. After the war when the volunteer outfits disbanded, Hemingway returned home where he took up his plan to earn a living as a writer.
Hemingways Red Cross experience was a major influence on his development as a writer and a thinker. Through the power of words, Hemingways journalism, short stories, and novels exposed the falsehoods of World War I propaganda. His involvement with the Red Cross led to some of the finest American literature on the Great War.
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Map of the Italian theater of war, 1918.
This and facing page: Excerpt from a diary entry by Robert W. Bates, August 22, 1918 (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Drivers of Red Cross Section One in Milan, December 1917 (Library of Congress).
American Red Cross officers in Bassano del Grappa. From left to right: Captain George Utassy, Quartermaster General; Major Guy Lowell, Director of the Department of Military Affairs; Colonel Robert Perkins, Commissioner; and Captain Robert Bates, Director of Ambulance and Rolling Kitchen Services (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Front page of Section One newspaper Avanti, January 1, 1918 (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Front page of Section One newspaper Come St, March 10, 1918 (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Presentation of Section Four to the Italian government in Milan, April 4, 1918 (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Red Cross parade, New York City, May 18, 1918 (Library of Congress).
Front page of Section Four newspaper, Ciao, May 1918 (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Ernest Hemingway (second from left) and other war personnel during a lifeboat drill aboard the Chicago, May 1918. (Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library).
Palazzo Pigatti in Vicenza, which served as headquarters for Red Cross ambulance and rolling kitchen services on the Italian front (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Italian troops marching past the Red Cross Headquarters at Palazzo Pigatti in Vicenza (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Red Cross ambulance and personnel at a post in the mountain region (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Schio. The American flag indicates Section Four headquarters (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Section Four Chef Charles Griffin and Sous Chef Edward Welch in a staff car (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Section Four lodgings, Schio (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Ernest Hemingway at the wheel of a Section Four ambulance (Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library).
Ernest Hemingways Ring Lardner parody, Al Receives Another Letter, Ciao, June 1918, 2 (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Edward M. McKey (right) next to a rolling kitchen (Library of Congress).
The opening reception at Gambles Kitchen, James Gambles Red Cross canteen post near Monte Grappa (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Italian soldiers at a Red Cross canteen in the mountain region (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Edward McKeys rolling kitchen after it was wrecked by a shell on June 17, 1918, the day after McKey was killed (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Overleaf: Carbon copy of letter from Robert Bates to his family, June 27, 1918. Batess handwritten annotation states: Note: This + other such comments in these letters were for the benefit of the Italian Military Censor + did not reflect my true opinion of the fighting qualities of the Italians (Robert W. Bates Papers).
Robert Bates (fourth from left) and Captain Felice Cacciapuoti of the Italian army (second from right) along with unidentified soldiers and Red Cross personnel after the recovery of Edward McKeys damaged rolling kitchen (Robert W. Bates Papers).
From left to right: Robert Bates, Felice Cacciapuoti, and an unidentified Red Cross worker at Edward McKeys burial (Library of Congress).
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