This is a photo show the type of stretcher used to transport a wounded soldier. Two men are carrying the stretcher with the wounded one and another man is carrying a bucket. They are standing in front of a train car. On the left is Bernhard Friesen and the man holding the bucket is Johann Funk. [German handwriting on back of photo]
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This is a photo of the interior of a infirmary where wounded soldier were treated. The person marked with an X is the doctor and the person lifting the pail is Heinrich Bergmann. The woman marked with a vertical line is the sister of the writer. [German handwriting on back of photo]
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David Letkemann and other personnel of #190 Red Cross train
Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of the staff of the train No.190. About 13,000 Mennonite men had to serve during the First World War. They served in various places and in different capacities. The most popular of all these services was probably that of a Red Cross worker. A great number of hospitals on wheels, that is Red Cross trains, were organized and thousands of our men served on them. To the left, right under the zero, sits David Letkemann. [HR 236]
Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of Abram Wiens as Red Cross soldier. 1915. [HR 245]
Jakob Harder and Mennonite Red Cross soldiers
Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of three Mennonite Red Cross soldiers and two Russian nurses standing in front of a Red Cross train. Two wounded men can be seen in the door of the coach. [HR 243]
Froese, Loewen, Franz Thiessen, Russo-Japanese War
Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of volunteers during the Russo-Japanese war. They are (left to right): Froese, Loewen, a Russian nurse and Franz Thiessen. [HR 235]
John T. Voth in uniform for the Russian army medical corp
Teil vonJohannes T. and Katherina (Bergen) Voth photo collection
A portrait of Johnnes T. Voth standing in his Red Cross Russian military medic uniform.
Personnel of a German-Russian combined Red Cross unit
Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of a Red Cross unit, including some Mennonites in German uniforms, being presented to the Czarina. During the Russo-Japanese war, 1904-5, Germany sent a Red Cross Unit to the Russian front. It was a token of friendship. Mennonite young men, who had volunteered to serve in Russian Red Cross units because of their knowledge of the two languages, were delegated to serve in the German unit. The man sitting in front of the official is Peter Dyck. [HR 234]
Teil vonDer Bote Photograph Collection
A group of 32 medics beside a Russian train. This hospital unit was group # 187.
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Teil vonDer Bote Photograph Collection
Russian Mennonite Hospital Unit #187.
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Portrait of man wearing Red Cross medic hat
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Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of Jacob B. Krahn from Grigorjewka as Red Cross soldier. [HR 245]
T. Schmidt and Mennonite Red Cross soldiers
Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of Mennonite Red Cross soldiers. The second from left is T. Schmidt. [HR 242]
Wounded man being loaded onto Red Cross train
Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of people loading the wounded onto a train. [HR 237]
Teil vonGerhard Lohrenz fonds
This is a photo of part of a Red Cross train. [HR 243]