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Definition of Hospital train
1. Noun. A military train built to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospital Train
Literary usage of Hospital train
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tale of a Field Hospital by Frederick Treves (1900)
"Very early on Saturday morning, while it was yet moonlight, the hospital train
backed down from Chieveley and came to a stand as near the field hospitals as ..."
2. A Southern Girl in '61: The War-time Memories of a Confederate Senator's by Louise Wigfall Wright (1905)
"... hospital train GENERAL JOHNSTON SUPERSEDED BY GENERAL HOOD MRS. CLAY'S TRIBUTE
TO THE FORMER THE EVACUATION OF ATLANTA. IN THE month of February, 1864, ..."
3. History of American Red Cross Nursing by Lavinia L. Dock (1922)
"27 for temporary duty on hospital train No. 37 and a trial trip was made by them
a few days later. ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Now we creep past a long hospital train, full this time, which has turned out on
a siding to give us the right of way—perhaps thirty all-steel cars—each ..."
5. George Miller Sternberg: A Biography by Martha L. Sternberg (1920)
"During this trip, while the engine was taking on water, the hospital train was
struck in the rear by a passenger train. A caboose on the rear train was ..."
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