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Richard Thomas Crump
Very little is known about Richard Crump's life, aside from the meticulous scrapbook he assembled documenting his World War I service as an ambulance driver. The album begins with his days in training at the University of Virginia, including the page shown here with its photographs of an orderly drill in pleasant surroundings. The later photos in the album, which show the ravaged French countryside in San Sulpice and Wailley, damaged ambulances, and buildings reduced to rubble by German shelling, are in stark contrast to these earlier images. |