Activités des volontaires féminines conductrices de la 531e compagnie sanitaire de transport à Rivoli (Algérie).

Une volontaire féminine conductrice de la 531e compagnie sanitaire de transport assure la maintenance des véhicules. / A women volunteer of the 531th company takes care of the vehicules.

Octobre 1943

Algérie - région d'Oran - Rivoli

Origine : SCA - ECPAD

Référence : TERRE-116-2379

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Created in February 1943, the compagnie sanitaire de transport was part of the Corps Expéditionnaire Français and then of 1st Army. Its members were in great majority women. The volunteers, whose nickname was ‘chaufeurrettes’ (in French, women form of the word chauffeur, driver - neologism), in addition to their driving formation, received a medical training and a ambulance driver diploma, enabling them to wear the Red Cross emblem