Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1917 — WOMEN IN THEIR FIRST ACTIVE WAR DUTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMEN IN THEIR FIRST ACTIVE WAR DUTY

Members of the women's motor ambulance corps of the American Red Cross are now engaged in active field work. The picture shows the first actual duty performed by members of the corps, when two sick soldiers were transported from a camp "somewhere in Virginia" to the engineer barracks hospital in Washington. Mrs. William Colby Rucker, wife of a doctor in the public health service, drove the car and Mrs. M. R. Blumenberg acted as her helper. They were selected for the task by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, organizer of the corps. The trip was made over rough roads in good time. Mrs. Rucker Is at the left of the picture and Mrs. Blumenberg at the right. Captain Phelps of the Army War college is helping one of the soldiers to a stretcher. The other sick man is In the machine.