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The Brattleboro Daily Reformer
Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont
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Major C. Claflin Davis, Harvard-educated Bostonian and American Red Cross director, has dedicated his career to humanitarian aid, including WWI field service in France, post-war relief in Constantinople, assistance to Smyrna massacre victims, and support for Gen. Wrangel's defeated army and Crimean refugees.
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Major C. Claflin Davis, the American Red Cross director whose heroic work to relieve the victims of the massacre at Smyrna has been repeatedly mentioned in news dispatches, is a Boston man and a Harvard graduate. For many years he has been continuously engaged in one organization or another aiding the unfortunates. In the early part of the World war he served with the American Field Ambulance in France. He was rejected for army service when the United States entered the war, but kept up his labors on behalf of war relief. In 1919 he went to Paris with the American Red Cross and was immediately sent to Constantinople, where he has been most of the time since then. He was in charge of the relief work among the remnants of Gen. Wrangel's army after the latter's defeat in the Crimea and also among the refugees who followed the former Russian nobleman out of the Crimea.
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Boston, France, Paris, Constantinople, Crimea
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Early Part Of The World War, 1919
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Major C. Claflin Davis, a Boston man and Harvard graduate, has long aided unfortunates through organizations like the American Red Cross. He served with the American Field Ambulance in France during the early World War, continued war relief after rejection for army service, went to Paris in 1919 and then to Constantinople, where he led relief for Smyrna massacre victims and remnants of Gen. Wrangel's defeated army and refugees from the Crimea.