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Show ALDNG ilk WITH THE THE LINE mm NATIONAL OF MARCH pl SERVICE MEN (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Lesion News Service.) "A B C" OF LONDON POST NO. 1 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION p & I ; : R. L. BLAND, L. E. ANDERSON, W. H. A. COLEMAN, Post Finance Officer. Post Commander. - Post Adjutant. Listing among its members a former Dnited States army nurse who holds decorations for valor from Great Britain, Bri-tain, France and Belgium, the London post of the American Legion is actively active-ly engnged in cementing the friendship between the two English-speaking countries. The post, which has 110 members' draws its personnel from the American embassy, American consulates, consul-ates, the U. S. Shipping Board, American Ameri-can Relief Administration, U. S. Army Liquidation Commission, Graves Registration Regis-tration Service and from a host of professions pro-fessions and businesses. In it are lawyers', law-yers', chemists, journalists, engineers, salesmen, valets and chauffeurs, all joining in the activities of the first unit of the American Legion to be estab-'ished estab-'ished in Europe. Miss Alice Emerson Findley is the .voman member of the post. She. joined the British nursing corps) shortly short-ly after war was declared in 1914, an served in London, Paris and at the front. As an American army nurse she worked through two offensives under heavy, shell fire. The London post received its charter char-ter from the American Legion on November No-vember 25, 1919. Previous to that date it had been listed as a unit of the American Legion of Europe, an organization organi-zation which replaced the American War Veterans' association, which was formed in September, 1919. L. E. Anderson is post commander, W. H. A. Coleman, post adjutant, and R. L. Bland, post finance officer. The work of decorating the 2,500 American graves in England and Ireland on Memorial Me-morial day was directed by Don A. Smith of the London post. |