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Norton Plaque (Founder of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps)

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Details:

In the lobby of the American Hospital. Upon entering, turn left down the hall. The plaque hangs high on the left wall. Plaque A bronze plaque.


The plaque remembers Richard Norton founder of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, also known as the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps and "Norton's Corps".

Richard Norton (February 9, 1872 – August 2, 1918) was the organizer and head of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps (also known as the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps), which served on the front in France in World War I from 1914 until it was taken over by the American Army in 1917. He was an 1892 graduate of Harvard, noted Archeologist and Professor of Classical Archaeology at several universites. He was also the director of the Archaeological Institute of America. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the Legion of Honour, and the Order of St. Lazarus. His award of the Cross of the Legion of Honor by France for his efforts during World War I.


Monument Text:

A fund has been given to this hospital to honor 

Richard Norton

Soldier, Scholar, Archeologist.

Died in service, France, August 2, 1918

by his comrades of the Norton-Harjes Volunteer Ambulance Corps and others
in admiration and affection for him as a leader and friend

Commemorates:

People:

Henry Herman Dulon  Harjes

Richard Norton

Yale H. Squire

Units:

Ambulance Corps

American Red Cross

American Red Cross Ambulance Service

Red Cross

Wars:

WWI

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