The
American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, also known as the
Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, was an organization started in London, England, in the fall of 1914 by
Richard Norton, archeologist and son of Harvard professor
Charles Eliot Norton. Its mission was to assist the movement of wounded Allied troops from the battlefields to hospitals in France during World War I. The Corps began with two cars and four drivers. The service was associated with the
British Red Cross and
St. John Ambulance.