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U.S NATIONAL
    LIBRARY
         OF
   MEDICINE
 PROPERTY OF THE
 NATIONAL
LIBRARY OF
 MED/CINE 
 
 
 
 
HEADQUARTERS BASE HOSPITAL NO. 50

        902 BOEEN AVENUE

         SEATTLE, WASH.
SEP 3 0 1924
 August 20,
 19 2 3.
TO THE MEMBERS OF BASE HOSPITAL NO. 50:

            The committee in charge of the history
have completed our book on the life and work of
Base Hospital No. 50.

            You will, no doubt, find some mistakes
and omissions, but they have carefully endeavored
to secure the picture of every member of the unit
for reproduction, but this has not been possible on
account of not being able to locate some, and the
lack of interest of others in not sending in their
photographs.

            We do hope, however, that it will be a
souvenir which will assist in bringing back to
memory the various scenes and transactions
experienced during our service in the Great War.
We believe that as the years go by it will become
of great interest to us, and that it will be more
appreciated as we gather in our annual reunion.

            Please fill out and mail the enclosed
post card so that we may know that you have
received the book.

            We take much pleasure in presenting it
to you with the compliments of the American Red
Cross.

                   Very sincerely,
Jas. B. Eagleson. 
 
THE HISTORY  OF
   BASE   HOSPITAL
             FIFTY
    A PORTRAYAL OF THE
WORK DONE BY THIS UNIT WHILE
 SERVING IN THE UNITED STATES
   AND WITH THE AMERICAN
    EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
       IN FRANCE
By OFFICIAL COMMITTEE of BASE HOSPITAL FIFTY
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
NINETEEN TWENTY.TWO 
Ry,
MAJOR JAMES B. EAGLESON
        Organizer and Director
      Red Cross Base Hospital Fifty 

   IX presenting this sketch of the history
   of American Red Cross Base Hospital
   No. 50, of the University of Washing-
   ton, located at Seattle, which, after be-
ing called into active  Military service of
the United States for duty in France, be-
came Base Hospital No. 50, Medical De-
partment, U. S. Army, we wish to extend
our most hearty appreciation to those who,
by their  noble and patriotic  endeavors,
made the existence and activities of that
institution possible.
   To Dr. Henry Suzzallo, President of
the University of Washington, for his
early and continued interest and enthusi-
asm  in  the  organization of the  hospital
unit, and his wise counsel at all times in
regard to its welfare and work, as well as
his generous donation of the work of his
office assistants in securing recruits for the
enlisted personnel.
   To Mr. Charles D. Stimson, Manager
Northwest Division American Red Cross,
for his keen interest and assistance in the
early formation  of  the  unit and  his
great aid in the work of raising the fund
for its equipment.
   To Mr. Frank Waterhouse, Mr. Robert
Moran, and many other leading business
men  of Seattle, who  so nobly  assisted in
the work of financing the hospital organ-
ization.
     INTRODUCTORY

  To the Seattle Girls' War Work Asso-
ciation, headed  by Miss Gladys  Water-
house and Miss Katherine Kittinger, who,
with their most efficient co-workers,
planned  and  executed  the great bazaar
which resulted in raising the fund of One
Hundred Thousand Dollars  ($100,000),
one-half of which amount was turned over
to the Seattle Chapter,  and by them for-
warded to the National Headquarters of
the American Red Cross in Washington,
D. C, to be used in purchasing the equip-
ment for Base Hospital No.  50.
     Dr. Henry Suzzam.o
President University of Washington
  To the officers and members of the Seat-
tle Chapter  of the  Red Cross for their
great interest and assistance during  the
formation of our Hospital Unit, and their 
active endeavors  in making the bazaar a
complete success.
  To the citizens of Seattle and the North-
west for their most generous patronage
during the week of the great bazaar, which
financial support made possible the secur-
ing of the $100,000.00 fund.
  To Lieutenant  C. L.  Vanderboget,
M. C, U. S. Army, who served as recruit-
ing officer for the unit, for his great  in-
terest in the formation of the organization,
Lieut. C. L. Vanderhoget
  Recruiting Officer
his most careful service in selecting, exam-
ining and recruiting the enlisted personnel
in the Medical Reserve Corps for our unit.
Also for his enthusiastic service during the
preliminary training in first aid and hos-
pital care,  which endeared him to  every
man in the unit.
  To Miss May  Loomis, the director of
nurses, for the Northwest Division, Amer-
ican Red Cross,  for her untiring efforts
and most excellent judgment  in selecting
the corps of one hundred nurses for Base
Hospital No. 50, who gave such splendid
and  faithful service  to  the sick and
wounded, not only from our own Ameri-
can forces,  but to those of the Allies, and
also to the sick and wounded German pris-
oners in the care of Base Hospital No. 50,
during its activities in  France.

  To Miss Belle McKay Fraser, super-
intendent of  the  Children's Orthopedic
Hospital in Seattle, and afterwards Chief
Nurse of Base Hospital No. 50, for her
careful and painstaking instruction and
demonstrations to the  corps men, before
leaving Seattle, in the care of patients,
bed  making  and  hospital  work,  which
proved of  so much value to them, when
during their active experience in France,
twelve hundred patients were  placed  in
their care before the arrival of our Nurse
Corps.
  To the Ladies' Musical Club, of Seattle,
for their thoughtfulness, patriotism and
generosity expressed by their donation  of
an equipped army ambulance for the use
of the hospital in France.
  To the Washington Chapter of the Na-
tional  Society  of  Colonial Dames  of
America, who  so graciously expressed the
noble patriotism inherited from their val-
iant forebears who did such heroic work
in the days of Washington,  by their dona-
tion of an equipped  army ambulance for
service with Base Hospital No.  50  in
France.
  To Mrs. Cyrus F.  Clapp, of Seattle,
who, in memory of her husband, Senator
Cyrus F.  Clapp,  donated  an  equipped
army ambulance for the use of the hos-
pital in France, and who also forwarded
to the director of the hospital, a handsome
check to be used for a Christmas dinner
for the corps  men, who, after  partaking
of the  bounteous  meal,  tendered  her  a
hearty vote of thanks for her thoughtful-
ness.
  To the members of Nile Temple, Mystic
Shrine, of Seattle, for sending a beautiful 
Supersix Hudson seven-passenger motor
car for the use of the unit.
  To the teachers of the Seattle public
schools and the pupils of the Walla Walla
School,  Seattle, for a fund  for the  pur-
chase of special surgical instruments to be
used in caring for the sick and wounded
in France.
  To other Seattle friends for the dona-
tion of a folding organ and a fund for the
purchase of song books.
  To various ladies of Seattle for sending
supplies  to  the unit while in training at
Camp Fremont, California.
  To Major F.  A. Black, Acting Chief
Nurse Cora E. Gillespie, Sergeants Victor
J. Farrar, Malcolm Moran and Franklin
Sly for their untiring efforts in taking and
collecting photographs, arranging and ex-
ecuting the drawings  and art work, col-
lecting data and  writing various parts of
the manuscript for the history.
  To the officials of the National Head-
quarters, and  also the Seattle Chapter of
the American Red Cross for donation of
a fund, the use of which has made possi-
        Miss May Loomis, R. X.
Director Northwest Division Red Cross Nurses
     Organizer of the Nursing Corps
ble the publication of this history, and its
presentation to each member of the Base
Hospital Unit as a memento of his serv-
ice with it.
                 James B. Eagleson.
7 
Ambulance Donated by Mrs. Cyrus F. Clapp, Seattle
Ambulance Donated by Ladies' Musical Club, Seattle 
Automobile Donated by Nile  Temple, Seattle, Wash.
Ambulance Donated by Colonial Dames of America
9 
 
 
THE  OFFICERS
H. Eugene Allen,
                 IAcut. Colonel, M. C.
        Assistant Chief Surgical Service
             Seattle, Wash.
Rev. Hansen Bergen,
                   Chaplain, U. S. A
             Seattle, Wash.
Forrest A. Black,
                       Major, M. C.
         Urologist and Dermatologist
             Seattle, Wash.
Gustave A. Braun,
                    Lieutenant, M. C.
            Medical Service
             Newark, N. J.
12 
Ray W. Bryan,
                   Lieut. Colonel, 31. C.
             Commanding Officer
                U. S. Army
Hubbard T. Buckner,
                         Captain, 31. C.
Surgical Service
 Seattle, Wash.
Father William H. Carroll,
                      Chaplain, U.S. A,
              New Orleans, La.
George L. Curran,
                         Captain, 31. C.
              Medical Service
             North Adams, Mass.
13 
John Denno,
Captain, S. C
Mess Officer
U S. A rmv
Edward P. Fick,
                           3Iajor, 31. C.
             Chief of Medical Service
               Seattle, Wash.
H. F. Garman,
Captain, 31. C.
Surgical Service
 Emeigh, Pa.
Robert Hamilton
31 ajor, 31. C.
Surgical Service
Smithport, Pa.
14 
J. A. Hawkins,
                      Lieut. Colonel, 31. C.
         Receiving and Evacuating Officer
                 Pittsburgh,. Pa.
Alfred J. Helton,
                             3Iajor, 31. C.
               Surgical Service
                Yakima, Wash.
Everett O.  Jones,
                             3Iajor, 31. C.
              Surgical Service
                Seattle, Wash.
Wm. C. Kantner,
                        Lieutenant, 31. C.
              Surgical Service
                Seattle, Wash.
15 
Howard J. Knott,
                          Captain. 31. C.
               Surgical Service
               Seattle, Wash.
Walter E. Lowrie,
                           Captain, D. C.
 Oral Surgeon
Tacoma, Wash.
James A. Lybecker,
                       Captain, Q. 31. C.
               Quartermaster
               Fairfield, Wash.
Richard H. Lyons,
                          Captain, 31. C.
               Medical Service
               Seattle, Wash.
16 
Guy E. Marcy,
                          Captain, 31. C.
               Medical Service
               Wapato, Wash.
Arthur K. Stebbins,
                       Lieutenant, D. C.
                  Dentist
               Tacoma, Wash.
Charles F.  INIcDonald,
                          Captain, S. C.
                 Adjutant
               Bancroft, Idaho
Copeland Plummer,
                           3Iajor, 31. C.
              Surgical Service
               Seattle, Wash.
17 
Howard C. Randolph,
Captain, 31. C.
Surgical Service
Aberdeen, Wash.
Louis Savitsky,
Captain, 31. C.
Surgical Service
 Chicago, 111.
Walter Schmidt,
Lieutenant, 31. C.
 Pathologist
Cliffside, N. J.
Thomas F. Shinnick,
31ajor, 31. C.
Medical Service
  Beloit, Wis.
18 
Albert F. Mattice,
                          Captain, 31. C.
               Surgical Service
               Seattle, Wash.
Harold B. Thompson,
                          Captain, 31. C.
             Chief X-ray Service
               Seattle, Wash.
Thomas Vanden Bosch,
                       Lieutenant, S. C.
            Medical Supply Service
               Minneola, N. Y.
Kenneth Vaughn,
                       Lieutenant, D. C.
                  Dentist
                Selah, Wash.
19 
Frank T. Wilt,
                     3Iajor, 31. C.
             Neurologist
            Seattle, Wash.
E. LeRoy Wilkins,
                  Lieutenant, 31. C.
            Surgical Service
            Clarksdale, Miss.
OFFICERS ATTACHED
TEMPORARILY
J. R. Carothers,
                  Lieutenant, M. C.
            Medical Service
            Charleroi, Pa.
August E. Gehrke,
                  Lieutenant, 31. C.
            Surgical Service
            Detroit, Mich.
20 
Alexander S. Henby,
                     Captain, Red Cross
              Red Cross Service
Albert G. Hulett,
                       Lieutenant, 31. C.
             Laboratory Service
             East Orange, N. J.
John  J. Szymanski,
                          Captain, 31. C.
             Laboratory Service
               Passaic, N. J.
W'm. E. Troxler,
                          Captain, M. C.
               X-ray Service
              Lewisberg, Tenn.
21 
THE  NURSES
Minnie Andrew s, R. N.
                        Sumas, Wash.
Maida Estelle Beals, R. N.
                       Seattle, Wash.
Margaret Beattie, M. S.
          Laboratory Technician
                        San Jose, Cal.
Helen Beeler, R. N.
                       Seattle, Wash.
Martha M. Bloom, R. N.
                      Parkland, Wash.
Edith Borkman, R. N.
                       Chinook, Wash.
22 
Julia A. Button, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Minnie M. Calkins, R. N.
                         Bremerton, Wash.
Lyra J. Cedergren, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Maree Crowell Chandler, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Ruth Clegg, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Linda M. Coleman, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
23 
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Huldah Cooke, R. N,
Bellingham, Wash.
Clara Cramer, R. N.
Bellingham, Wash.
Mazel Davis, R. N.
Spokane, Wash.
Merle A. Delaware, R. N.
Seattle, Wash.
Florence Dench, R. N.
Seattle, Wash.
Florence F. Dickson, B. S.
                Dietitian
Seattle, Wash.
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24 
Ethel Dorrance, B. S.
            Laboratory Technician
                        Walla Walla, Wash.
Grace Z. Dye, R. N.
                             Medford, Ore.
Mary Eckstein, R. N.
                        Walla Walla, Wash.
Allie Enger, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Magdalene Forland, R.  N.
                         Mt. Vernon, Wash.
Jennie Enger, R. N.
                             Seattle, Wash.
25 
Belle McKay Fraser, It. N.
               Chief Nurse
                            Seattle, Wash.
Leah N. Gamble, R. N.
                           Spokane, Wash.
Della C. Giffin, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Cora E. Gillespie, R. N.
          Later Acting Chief Nurse
                            Seattle, Wash.
Emelie Gonnason, R. N.
                 Richmond Highlands, Wash.
Hazel A. Gourley, R. N.
                            Everett, Wash.
26 
Mary E. Russell, R. N.
                          Sheridan, Wyo.
Juanita A. Harden, R. N.
                          Spokane, Wash.
Anna J. Johnson, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Elizabeth C. Johnson, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Lillian J. Johnston, R. N.
                           Rosalia, Wash.
Myrtle A. Johnson, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
27 
Eva Johnson, R.  N.
Port Orchard, Wash.
Lillian E. Jones, R. N
Gertrude Holmes, R. N
Cathren M. King, R. N.
Theresa Langer, R. N.
Anne C. Knott, R. N.
Seattle, Wash.
Newton, Mass.
Tacoma, Wash.
Seattle, Wash.
Walla Walla, Wash.
28 
Alma E. Lighthall, R. N.
Karon Lauridsen, R. N.
Agnetta Larsen, R. N
Leslie Lettrick, R. N.
Marion Lord, R. N.
Edna M. Mason, R. N.
Seattle, Wash.
Tacoma, Wash.
Seattle, Wash.
Mullan, Idaho
Yakima, Wash.
Spokane, Wash.
Mwmmmm
29 
Ada Merrifield, R. N.
Seattle, Wash.
Rose McE. Moran, R. N.
Stanwood, Wash.
Bernadine Moran, R. N.
Seattle, Wash.
Eleanor Murphy, R. N
Boise, Idaho
Margaret E. Murphy, R. N.
Seattle, Wash.
Elizabeth McConaghy, R. N.
                           Seattle, Wash.
30 
M. B. MacCosham, R. N
Spokane, Wash.
Mary E. McKay, R. N.
Grand View, Wash.
Lillian MacMillan, R. N.
Vancouver, B. C.
Katherine MacMillan, R. N.
                         Vancouver, B. C.
Grace E. McjNIonagle, R. N.
Seattle, Wash.
Ethel MacNaughton, R. N.
Yakima, Wash.
31 
Margaret A. McRae, R. N.
                            Seattle. Wash.
Amanda Needles, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Zowita Nicholas, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Mollie O'Brien, R.  N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Olive Osborne, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Amy O'Keefe, R. N.
                        San Francisco, Cal.
32 
Besse L. Pelty, R. N.
                           Spokane, Wash.
Matilda Rasmussen, R. N.
                              Kent, Wash.
Alice Hazel Rien, R. N.
                      Otis Orchards, Wash.
Celia K. Robb, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Margaret J.  Robinson, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Claire E. Russell, R. N.
                            Everett, Wash,
33 
Emma L. Rutz, R. N
Clara O. Sasse, R. N.
Mabel Seaborn, R. N.
May Sheedy, R. N.
Nenena, Alaska
Niles, Ohio
Seattle, Wash.
Seattle, Wash.
Vivien M. Simpkins, R. N.
                       Walla Walla, Wash.
Edith Blanch E. Smith, R. N.
                        Bellingham, Wash.
34 
Hazel G. Smith, R. N.
                         Redmond, Wash.
Olive St. Cyr, R. N.
                       Bellingham, Wash.
Roxy E. Stayton, R. N.
                           Stayton, Ore.
Bertha Thulon, R. N.
                          Spokane, Wash.
Irma A. Tuell, R. N.
                          Tacoma, Wash.
Alma T. Tuell, R. N.
                          Tacoma, Wash.
35 
Catherine Walsh, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Alexandria C. Walker, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Josephine E. Warner, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Rachel A. Wightman, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Irene M. Wilkinson, R. N.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Evelyn Wood, R. N.
            Assistant Chief Nurse
                             Chicago, 111.
36 
Anna C. Long, R. N
Maude S. Yerkes. R. N.
Tacoma, Wash.
Olympia, Wash.
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38 
THE  ENLISTED MEN

       Alien, Thomas J., P. F. C.
                              Seattle, Wash.
Aries, Walter J., P. F. C.
                      Wapato, Wash.
Auernheimer, Henry C, P. F. C.
                       Seattle, Wash.
Auld, Chan D., P. F. C
                      Yakima, Wash.
Barnes, Edward M., P. F. C
                      Seattle, Wash.
Beaver, Charles, Cook F. C.
                      Sumner, Wash.
Behm, August F., P. F. C.
                   Chicago Heights, 111.
Bishop, Roy V., Cook F. C.
                       Seattle, Wash. 
Bissett, Clark P., Jr., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Bowers, Ralph J., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Bordeaux, Chester R., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Blake, Fredrick, Cook F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Boyle, Frank T., P. F. C.
                          Plummer, Idaho
Brace, John M., Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Brady, Virgil L., P. F. C.
                        Deep Creek, Wash.
Bremer, John, P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
40 
Brewer, Walter T., P. F. C.
                           Tacoma, Wash.
Brickell, Duncan W., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Brown, Herbert S., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Brown, Leland P., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Burrington, Howard D., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Burwell, Frederick A., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Butler, William S., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Byron, Tryggvi H., Mess. Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
41 
Cammack, George B., Serg. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Carroll, Joseph Le R., Serg. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Cheever, Harridon G., Serg. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Conner, Earl F., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Cooper, Lee S., P. F. C.
                          Wellsville, Utah
Correa, Arthur J., Cook F. C.
                            Moraga, Cal.
Crawford, Claudis, P. F. C.
                              Purdy, Mo.
Dauphin, Aime J., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
42 
De Bon, George A., P. F. C.
                           Yakima, Wash.
Dwyer, Ford F., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Easton, Charles A., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Farrar, Victor J., Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Feidler, Leo G., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Fernyhough, Harold S., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Folsom, Frank H., Corp. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Fletcher, Charles N., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
43 
Foster, Herbert E., Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle. Wash.
Foster, Linn B., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Frohmader, John K., P. F. C.
Salem, Ore.
Gaffner, Walter B., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Gallagher, Patrick G., P. F. C.
                             Baker, Ore.
Gallman, Alfred E., Cook F. C
                           Seattle, Wash.
Garred, Max F., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Gay, Sam P., Corp. F. C.
Des Moines, Wash.
44 
Gerlough, Robert J., Serg. F. C.
                            Moscow, Idaho
GiLBERTSON, LOUIS S., P. F. C.
                          Snohomish, Wash.
Goodenow, Curtis H., P. F. C.
                            Everett, Wash.
Goodrich, Lee J., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Guie, Heister D., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Hackett, Roland A., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Hagey, Grover A., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Halpern, Morris, P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
45 
Halsan, Leif, P. F. C.
                             Astoria. Ore.
Harper, Joseph C, P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Hartman, Leroy L., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Haynes, John B., Serg. F. C.
                         Newcastle, Wash.
Hemrich, Andrew L., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Hilton, Jeffery R., P. F. C.
                         Marysville, Wash.
Hobbs, Frank, Hosp. Serg. F. C.
                             U. S. Army
Holmes, Howard S., P. F. C.
                          Olympia, Wash.
46 
Hunter, Stewart H., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Hyde, Clarence F., Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Impey, Paul D., Wagoner F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Inkster, Harry, P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Jacobi, Harry T., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Johnson, Cyrus L., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Johnson, Robert A., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Jones. Eugene G., P. F. C.
                          Olympia, Wash. 
Jones, William E., P. F. C.
                         Newcastle, Wash.
Kenyon, Frank A., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
King, Kenneth M., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Kinnee, Thomas E., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Knapp, Eugene H., P. F. C.
                         Davenport, Wash.
Kreidell, Harold W., P. F. C.
                        Ellensburg, Wash.
Kronfield, Harry, Corp. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Krulikoski, Lester, P. F. C.
                         Enumclaw, Wash.
48 
Lamoreux, Paul, Cook F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Lawson, John F., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Layman, James D., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Le Bold, Frank D., P. F. C.
                          Concrete, Wash.
Lidston, Stephen J., Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Lindley, William R., P. F. C.
                             Ontario, Cal.
Little, Jason L., P. F. C.
                        Castle Rock, Wash.
LOFQUIST, HiLMER E., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash. 
Madioan, Walter T., Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle. Wash.
Marcus, Isador, P. F. C
Los Angeles, Cal.

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Marlin, Marion, P. F. C.
Enumclaw, Wash.
Martin, Morris, P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
McCann, Thomas P., P. F. C.
                         Marysville, Wash.
McCarty, Willis T., Cook F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
McCormick, Terrance L., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
McCready, Irving S., P. F. C.
                         Snohomish, Wash.
50 
McLaren, Roy, P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
McMahon, Gordon, Cook F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
McPherson, Gordon S., Cook F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Meagher, Martin C, Serg.
                         Ellensburg, Wash.
Melum, William S., Cook F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Michelson, William A., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Miller, James M., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Miller, Sidney R., Wagoner F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
51 
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Montague, John J., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Moran, Malcolm E., Serg.
Rosaria, Wash.
Mottleson, Aaron P., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Munson, Albert C, Wagoner F. C.
               (Deceased)
                          Stanwood, Wash.
Myers, Donald P., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Nelson, William E., P. F. C.
Roslyn, Wash.
Norvell, Julius H., Serg.
Seattle, Wash.
O'Connor, Bernard L., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
52 
Osborne, Albert, P.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Otness, Lee A., P. F. C.
                           Moscow, Idaho
Ousdahl, Conrad O., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Parker, Sam, P.
               (Deceased)
                           Seattle, Wash.
Parker, George B., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Peden, Barton E., P.
                           Yakima, Wash.
Pernu, Urho S., Cook
                            Nasal, Wash.
Peterson, Rolland C, Cook
                           Seattle, Wash.
53 
Pieroth, John P., P. F. C.
                         Ellensburg, Wash.
Rask, Emil E., Cook
                            Seattle, Wash.
Reid, Deskin, P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Rice, Lewis E., P. F. C.
                           Spokane, Wash.
Riddell, Chester A., P. F. C.
                           Sumner, Wash.
Rogers, Joseph L., Cook
                        Walnut Grove, Cal.
Rosenberg, Alexander, Corp.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Ross, George W., P. F. C.
                           Concrete, Wash.
54 
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Runckey, Oliver A., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Rutledge, William L, Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Salle, Lewis A., P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Sandvig, Olaf, P. F. C.
Zilla, Wash.
Schleicher, Emil L., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
SCHROEDER, JOHN, P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Scott, John P., Hosp. Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Scott, Walter L., P. F. C.
                         Harrington, Wash.
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Segel. Manuel M., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Shapiro, Robert, P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Slemmons, Wilbert S., Serg. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Sly, Franklin, P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Smith, John F., P.
                         Long Beach, Cal.
Smith, Glennard D., P. F. C.
                           Portland, Ore.
Smith, Elmer R., P. F. C.
                        Ellensburg, Wash.
Spear, Benjamin C, Serg.
                           Seattle, Wash.
56 
Stevens, Wilburt B., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Stevens, Harold E., P. F. C.
                         Wilmington, Wyo.
Stolton, Henry W., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Strupler, Harry A., Master Hos. Serg.
                           Pullman, Wash.
Stokke, Louis, P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Sutcliff, Ralph J., P. F. C.
                        Bellingham, Wash.
Tennant, Harold E., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
Thomas, William J., P. F. C.
                            Othelo, Wash. 
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Thompson, Leigh ()., P. F. C.
Seattle. Wash.
Thompson, Ralph A., P. F. C.
                         Mansfield, Wash.
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Thoreson, Wallace, Cook F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.

Thorp, Paul F., P. F. C.
Bellevue, Wash.
Tilton, William H., Serg. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Tremp, Louis A., P. F. C.
Winslow, Wash.
Tremper, Edward P., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Trail, Frederick W., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
58 
Fnsworth, George W., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Vail, Edward L., P. F. C.
                          Ferndale, Wash.
Van de Wetering, John, P. F. C.
                           Lynden, Wash.
Wassberg, Clarence E., P. F. C.
                           Seattle, Wash.
Whealdon, Wayne F., P. F. C.
                            Eugene, Ore.
Wheeler, George C, Serg. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
White, William B., P. F. C.
               (Deceased)
                      Sedro-Woolley, Wash.
Williams, Lowell E., P. F. C.
                            Seattle, Wash.
59 
Williams, Herbert, Serg.
Seattle. Wash.
Wilton, Aubrey, P. F. C.
Seattle, Wash.
Wright, John J., P. F. C.
                         Bellingham, Wash.
Zech, Lando W., P. F. C.
Portland, Ore.
Engle, Ivan F., P. F. C.
Roundup, Mont.
Epple, William J., P. F. C.
60 
THE   HISTORY of  OUR  UNIT
     EARLY  in  Julv,  1917,  Captain
       Everett O.  Jones, M.  R.  C, of
       Seattle, returned from  an assign-
       ment  to temporary service  at  the
Presidio, San Francisco,  and while there
he had witnessed the organizing and  re-
cruiting of one of  the  Army Base Hos-
pitals authorized for the Red Cross  in San
Francisco,  and was  much impressed with
the thought that Seattle should also have
one organized.  Soon after his arrival in
Seattle, he  talked  the  matter over with
Major J. B. Eagleson, M. R. C, and they
decided to seek the aid of  Dr. Henry Suz-
zallo,  President  of the  University  of
Washington,  in trying to secure the  au-
thorization for an Army Base Hospital in
Seattle.  After consultation with  him, a
telegram was sent to the Military Depart-
ment American Red Cross,  Washington,
D.  C, requesting authority to  organize a
Base Hospital Unit in  Seattle, under  the
auspices  of the University  of Washing-
ton.  Much  to their disappointment  the
answer came back that this would  not be
possible as the War Department had  not
authorized  any more Red Cross base hos-
pitals at that' time.  The correspondence
was kept up, however, and early in Octo-
ber, 1917, a telegram was received by Mr.
C. D.  Stimson, Manager of the North-
western Division of the  American Red
Cross,  stating that  such  authority would
be granted if the Seattle Chapter would
raise a fund of  Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00) for equipping the Unit.  At
a luncheon held next day at the Rainier
Club a number of representative business
men of Seattle  agreed to  guarantee the
raising of the fund of $50,000.00, and Ma-
jor J.  B. Eagleson was requested to ac-
cept the position of Director of the Unit,
to which he consented.  These  facts were
communicated  to the  Headquarters  in
Washington by wire,  October 10,  1917.
The following extracts are from the reply
received:

         AMERICAN RED CROSS
                        Washington, D. C,
                        October 15, 1917.
Mr. C. D. Stimson,
  Manager, Northwestern Division,
    American Red Cross,
     Seattle, Washington.
Dear Sir:
  Your  telegram of the 10th instant has been re-
ferred to this office  by Major Connor, and we note
your recommendation of Major J. B. Eagleson as
Director of the proposed Hospital Unit.
  We should be very glad, indeed, to confirm this
appointment  for Major Eagleson, after you have
had a chance to review in detail the enclosures
which I  am forwarding.
     *****
  If you will advise me by wire upon receipt of
this, and  after conferring  with  the proposed
Director it is found that he is ready to go ahead
on the basis  outlined and  act as Director of the
Unit, we will officially appoint him in this capacity 
and authorize  him  to proceed at once with the
enrollment of his personnel.
  We appreciate your efforts in this matter, and
are most happy to feel that a Red Cross Base Hos-
pital will be organized in your eitv.
        Very sincerely yours,
      (Signed)   Sidney R.  Burnap,
                  Capt., M. R. C, U. S. A.
                    Bureau of Base Hospitals.

   Mr.  Stimson's answer  to  above letter
was favorable and on October 25, while in
Chicago, Major  Eagleson received a wire
from the  Headquarters in  Washington,
D.  C,  confirming  his appointment as
"Director  of Red Cross  Base  Hospital
No. 50, University of Washington".

   Immediately upon receipt of this notifi-
cation Major Eagleson went to Washing-
ton, D. C, and conferred with the Depart-
ment of Military Relief of the Red Cross
and the Surgeon General's  Office,  U. S.
Army,  in regard to the organization, en-
rollment of personnel, and equipment of
the Base Hospital Unit.  While there he
was informed that the Seattle Unit would
be the  last Base Hospital authorized by
the War Department for the American
Red Cross. It was to be planned as a reg-
ular Army Base Hospital of 500 bed ca-
pacity.

   After receiving instructions from Cap-
tain Burnap,  of the Bureau of Base Hos-
pitals of the Red Cross, and the Surgeon
General's  Office, Major Eagleson  re-
turned  to  Seattle and  proceeded  to ar-
range for the enrollment of the personnel
of  the  Unit.   This  was to  consist  of
twenty-six officers, all of  whom were to
be  selected by the  Director  except  the
Commanding officer, to  be assigned from
the regular Army Medical  Corps,  when
the Unit is called into active service, and
the Quartermaster,  to be  assigned from
the regular Army Quartermaster Corps,
neither  to be selected by the Director.  All
officers  selected by the Director must be
Commissioned in the Medical  Reserve
Corps, U. S. Army, and assigned to Base
Hospital No.  50.

  A  Chaplain was  to be  appointed  for
service  with   the  Hospital  Unit,  if  re-
 quested by the  Director.  He  would be
 given a Red  Cross Commission, with the
 rank of Captain, and  his salary paid by
 the  Red Cross, if  not  otherwise provided
 for.

   The Nursing  personnel was to consist
 of a Chief Nurse  and sixty-four  nurses.
 Before the Unit was  called  into  active
 service this number was increased to 100 in
 anticipation of increasing the number of
 beds in the hospital.

   All nurses  must first be enrolled in the
 American  Red Cross nursing  service and
 then assigned to  Base Hospital No. 50.

   In addition to the Nursing staff a Dieti-
 cian and Laboratory technicians were au-
 thorized,  and  also  stenographers, if  not
 found possible to enroll  them in the en-
 listed personnel.

   The total number of civilian employees
 must not exceed six.

   The Enlisted Personnel, 150 in number,
 were to be regularly enrolled  in the En-
 listed  Reserve-Corps,  Medical  Depart-
 ment, U. S. Army.  This personnel was
 to have the proper quota of noncommis-
 sioned officers, as prescribed by the Tables
 of Organization for base  hospitals.
   In November,  at the request of Major
 Eagleson,  the  War Department detailed
 Lieut. C. L. Vanderboget, M. R. C, as
 Recruiting Officer for Base Hospital No.
 50.  Lieut. Vanderboget  lived in Seattle,
 and  had been  for several  months on duty
 at the Army Recruiting Station there.

   The Adjutant General authorized the
 enlistments to  begin on December  1, and
 to close on the 15th, since the Draft  act
 would call them  for registration at that
 time. A recruiting office was furnished in
 the Cobb Building  by  the local chapter
 and  the notice made public that the en-
 listments for Base  Hospital No.  50, for
 duty  in France,  would begin December
 1st.   With the aid  of the public press of
 Seattle, which  gave very  generous aid to
our Unit at all times,  one hundred and
fifty men were enrolled.  These men were a
 picked lot from all walks of life.  Eighty- 
one were either graduates or students from
the LTniversity  of Washington.   Many
had held important positions  as  college
instructors, high school teachers, chemists,
bacteriologists, bank  cashiers,  bookkeep-
ers, stenographers, clerks, etc.  Several
were graduate dentists, pharmacists, un-
dertakers, etc.  In addition to  these were
recruited engineers, mechanics, carpenters,
plumbers, painters, auto drivers, automo-
bile repair men, cooks, tailors and barbers.
These men were to be ready whenever the
Unit was called into active service.

   The Seattle Girls' War Work Associa-
tion, headed  by Miss Gladys Waterhouse
and Miss Katherine Kittinger, and their
active  associates,  put on  a great  Bazaar
at the Arena, during the week from De-
cember 16 to 25, at which over $100,000.00
was raised, $50,000.00 of which was turned
over to  the  Seattle Chapter of the Red
Cross,  and by  them deposited with the
Headquarters at  Washington, D. C,  to
be drawn upon for the equipment of Base
Hospital No. 50.

   The  people of  Seattle  and  the North-
west took an active interest in  the Bazaar
and very  generously contributed to its
success.

   As soon as the men were enlisted and
the fund for the  equipment of the Unit
secured, Major Eagleson and Lieut. Van-
derboget made plans for their drilling and
schooling so  as to prepare  them for active
service.  The first meeting was held at the
Y. M.  C. A. auditorium January  2nd,
1918, at which a schedule of weekly meet-
ings was mapped out, to  be held in the
State Armory.  An experienced ex-U.  S.
Army, M. D. Sergeant  was  enlisted  to
give the men setting-up exercises  and lit-
ter drill.  Lieut.  Vanderboget gave lec-
tures on first aid, etc., based on Mason's
Handbook, copies of which were loaned
for use  of the Unit by Major Betts,  of
Fort Lawton.  Miss Belle  M. Fraser, Su-
perintendent of the Children's  Orthopedic
Hospital, and afterwards Chief Nurse  of
the Unit, gave  lectures on nursing, care
of sick, bedmaking and surgical dressings.
At these meetings the men  were  given
their anti-typhoid inoculations and were
also vaccinated.  Major Eagleson spent
the first three  days of the week  during
January,  February and  March  at  the
Base Hospital  at Camp Lewis, studying
Base Hospital  organization and manage-
ment  under the tutorship of Lieut. Col.
Northington.  While there on March 26,
he received a telegram from the War De-
partment instructing him  to  proceed at
once with the mobilization of  Base Hos-
pital No. 50 for  active training.   At the
meeting of the personnel at the State Ar-
mory on March 27 the orders  to mobilize
the Unit at once was announced, and was
received by  all with great glee.   Tele-
grams were sent to those living outside of
Seattle to report at once for duty.  At
the request of  Major Eagleson the men
were ordered to mobilize at Fort Lawton,
where  they were quartered until April 6,
when  the  Unit in command of  Major
Eagleson  and  four  regular  army ser-
geants detailed from Fort Lawton, pro-
ceeded  by special train  at  11  a.  m.  for
Palo  Alto, California.  The  train con-
sisted  of  Pullman  sleepers, a dining car
and  a baggage car, which was used  for
an assembly hall  for concerts on the trip.
Friends of the  Unit in Seattle presented
a  folding  organ,  which, with  numerous
musical instruments brought by the men,
added to the pleasure  of  the  trip.  On
arriving  at  Portland,  Oregon, about  6
p. m.  the Unit was met by a delegation
of Portland citizens and conducted to one
of the  leading hotels, where  a splendid
dinner  was served, after which we con-
tinued our journey.  At various stations
on the way we were  met by delegations,
who gave us good things to eat.  Our train
arrived at Camp Fremont, California, at
11 a. m., April  8, and was run on the side
track back of the Base Hospital belong-
ing to this Camp.  Here we reported to
Major Ray  W.  Bryan, regular Medical
Corps, U. S. A., who had  been detailed
by the War Department as our Com-
manding Officer.

   The afternoon was spent by the men in
arranging our Camp in a grove of live oak
trees just east of the Base Hospital build-
N 
ings.   A more beautiful spot would have
been difficult to find.  As soon as possible
the men were clothed in cotton uniforms
and  completely  outfitted.   The  civilian
clothing was either sent home or sold to
junk dealers who swarmed the camp.

  The orders for Base  Hospital 50 read
to report to the Base Hospital at Camp
Fremont, for duty and training, so the
men were divided  into two sections of
about  equal  size  and  one  section  was
placed in the Base Hospital,  and assigned
to active work in the offices, wards, labora-
tories,  kitchens, etc., for  a period of six
weeks' instruction.  The other half of the
personnel was kept at Base Hospital 50's
Camp, where a school was set up and four
hours'  instruction given, by means of lec-
tures, on Physiology, Anatomy, First Aid,
Nursing, Materia Medica, Hygiene  and
Ward  Management.  Two periods of one
and one-half hours  each were allotted for
instructions in drill as  prescribed in the
manual  for sanitary troops.   Each man
was required to study and pass an exami-
nation on the contents of the medical belt
and methods  of applying same  for first
aid.

  Two old buildings, which had been used
by the  contractors in building the hospital,
were cleaned up and one used for a head-
quarters for Base 50, and the other for an
instruction  hall  and   recreation  room,
which were later supplied with a pool table
and reading matter.

  The months of April  and May  were
very pleasantly and profitably spent in
study and training.

  On June 1st, 1918, Base Hospital No.
50 was increased from a five hundred to a
one thousand bed hospital and the enlisted
personnel increased to  two hundred and
the officers from twenty-five to thirty-five.
The Nursing Corps had already been in-
creased to one hundred  and the full num-
ber had  been chosen and enrolled in the
Red Cross Nursing Corps, by Miss May
Loomis, Director of Nurses for the North-
western Division  at Seattle,  and quite  a
number of them  were   already on active
duty at various Base Hospitals at Army
Training  Camps in the United States.

   Word was  received from  the Surgeon
General's Office  in Washington that the
additional fifty enlisted personnel would
be supplied by transfer from  Cam]) Kear-
ney, from a lot  of draft men, many of
whom spoke foreign  languages.   Believ-
ing  that these men would not assimilate
well with those already in the  Unit, Major
Eagleson  secured leave of absence  for fif-
teen days and proceeded at once to Seat-
tle.  On the way he wired the Surgeon
General  and  Adjutant General  for au-
thority to enlist and induct draft men
especially for service in  Base Hospital 50,
which authority came  by wire the morning
after arriving in  Seattle.  In a few days
he had secured the additional men, who
were largely students  from the University
and  other  schools, and had them examined
at Fort Lawton and from there forwarded
to Camp Fremont to join the Unit.  While
Major Eagleson was  in Seattle sixty men
arrived from Camp Kearney, California,
and  he found  them assigned  to the Unit
when he returned on June 14.

  On June 15 physical examinations were
scheduled  and out of approximately two
hundred and fifty men now  attached  to
the Unit two  hundred  were  selected for
overseas  duty  and the remainder were
transferred by order to the Base Hospital,
Camp Fremont, for duty.  Many of these
afterwards went overseas  with an  Army
Base Hospital which was organized  at
Camp Fremont.

  On June 21st, several  experts  in gas
drill, some being British  Army officers,
arrived from Camp Fremont,  and, for five
days, gave instructions to officers and men
in the use of gas masks.  Actual experi-
ence with gas was given each man in a gas
tent  especially erected for this purpose in
the camp.

  Capt. Everett O. Jones was the  first of
our staff to report to the Unit for duty,
coming from training school  at Los An-
geles, Captains Black, Fick, Lyons, Wilt,
and  Lowrie and Lieut. Kantner,  Knott, 
Randolph,  Marcy  and Stebbins having
been ordered to Camp Kearney, by  cler-
ical error, returned to  Camp Fremont to
join the Unit  on  May 24, accompanied
by Capt. Plummer, who had also been on
duty  at  the  Base Hospital there.   Red
Cross Chaplain Hansen  Bergen was or-
dered to report to our Unit for duty, and
soon after his arrival he was put in charge
of the new Y.  M. C. A.  building in con-
nection  with  the Base  Hospital, and also
appointed Athletic Officer.  Second Lieut.
J. A. Lybecker, Q. M.  C, was assigned to
be Quartermaster for B. H. 50, and Lieut.
John Denno, S. C, was assigned as Mess
Officer.  Lieut. Thomas Van Denbosch,
S. C, was  assigned as Medical Supply
Officer.

   During the month of June several tips
came from the War Department notify-
ing the Unit to be in readiness for an early
departure.

   On July 1st, the Unit was inspected by
Brigadier General  Joseph Leitch,  Com-
manding Officer of Camp  Fremont.   He
gave a farewell address to the officers and
"Godspeed" to the Unit.

   On July  2nd, orders were  received to
pack up and prepare for departure, which
was set for July 4th.  This proved to be
a very busy  day.  The camp was broken
up and  all tents and camp equipment was
packed  up and turned over to the Camp
Quartermaster.  At noon the Unit marched
to our special train at  the  Remount Sta-
tion.  The train consisted  of  a combina-
tion observation and sleeping car, several
sleeping cars, a baggage car fitted up for
our commissary, and cook car, freight cars
for our  baggage and flat cars for our am-
bulances  and   automobile  which  were
crated ready for overseas shipment.  Good-
byes were  said to  families and  friends,
ready for leaving at 1  p. m., when it was
discovered that one of the  wheels on our
cook car was badly cracked, necessitating
the sending  to  the yards  for another car,
which delayed  our departure until about
5 p. m., wThen we crossed the head of the
bay and  proceeded through Oakland and
were soon on our eastern journey, which
was very pleasant, with a few incidents of
special note to be remembered.  Our train
went over the Central Pacific Railway to
Ogden, thence  over the  Union Pacific
Railway to Chicago, thence over the Mich-
igan Central to Buffalo, thence over the
Erie & Western to Camp Merritt, New
Jersey. We bade good-bye to our ambu-
lances  and automobile  cars at  Chicago,
they being transferred  to another train
to go direct to Newport News for ship-
ment.  This was the last we saw of them
as they were never delivered to us  in
France.  The Unit  shipped  over  three
ambulances, one Hudson seven-passenger
automobile, and one side car motorcycle,
and had turned over for our  use by the
Motor Transport Corps, one second-hand
bicycle. The citizens and Red Cross girls
were ever ready to entertain and supply
us with good things whenever we stopped
for a rest.

  At  Detroit, Mich., one  member of the
Unit met his best girl and took advantage
of the delay caused by replacing a broken
truck, to get married at the depot.
  We  arrived at  Camp  Merritt  at 11
a. m.,  July  10th,  and  were immediately
marched to barracks.  We had been  ad-
vised that the Unit would probably have
a delay here of about one week before sail-
ing, but, owing  to the late arrival  of  an-
other unit scheduled  to sail in three days,
we were instructed to change our uniform
equipment from cotton  to overseas wool
and heavy shoes (hobnail)  at once  and
take their place.

  This necessitated our  working day and
night in order to get everything in shape
to leave.  New wool clothing, hob-nailed
shoes, and other articles were issued, and
at the last moment orders came in that all
men should have their hair cut close, and
this was not so popular with most of the
men.  The tails of the long overcoats were
also shortened.

  One number of our unit, Jack Mullane,
had to be left behind  in  the  hospital at
Camp Merritt on account of sickness.  On
arriving at Camp Merritt, Major Eagle-
son found that several of the  officers as- 
signed to the unit had not received orders
to meet us here.  He went to the Surgeon
General's office in  Washington, D.  C, in
an endeavor to have the orders changed,
but was only partially successful, with the
result  that  Capt.  Karshner  and Lieuts.
Swift, Mattson and Cornet were not able
to follow us, and other men were assigned
by the Surgeon Generals office to fill the
vacancies.   Lieuts. Schmidt  and Hulett
joined us here and  the others came over on
a later boat. Capts. Allen and Helton and
Lieuts. Thompson and Buckner, of our
own  staff,  were  waiting  here.   Lieut.
Mattice was ordered to join us, but  failed
to arrive before the unit  sailed, and came
over on a later ship.

  Early on  the morning of July 13th, one
hundred and ninety-nine men, accompan-
ied  by Col.  Bryan, Maj. Eagleson,  Capt.
Plummer, Lieuts.  Kantner, Denno, Van
Den Bosch  and Lybecker,  put on  their
packs  and  started on one of the hardest
hikes that we made.  The men had just
been  issued  their  woolen  uniforms and
hob-nail shoes, and the march up over that
long hill and down to the boat landing on
that hot July day was about all  that we
could stand. At 11:30 we went aboard a
small  river  boat and  started  down the
Hudson River, arriving at Pier 29 at the
foot of Brooklyn Bridge at 1:30.  We got
off  the boat and then had to stand in line
with our packs on for two hours before
our turn came to go aboard the boat. The
Red  Cross  served us  with coffee and
doughnuts  while we waited on the  dock.
The other fifteen officers  were left at Pier
59 to go as casuals on the S. S. "Baltic"
in the same convoy.

  We went aboard the  "Karmala,"  in
command of Capt. Flannigan, LT.  S. A.
The ship was formerly a British freighter
in the P. &  O. service,  and had been used
to carry cattle, and was not fit for any-
thing else.  The  quarters  were all  very
crowded and foul  smelling, and the men
had to spend most  of the  time up on deck.
The rest  of the  ship's passengers  were
Base Hospital personnel and anti-aircraft
troops.
  It was not until the following morning,
Sunday, at 11, that we left our moorings
at the dock and started down the bay and
joined the rest of our convoy,  which had
assembled there.   The  convoy consisted
of twelve transports and a cruiser.  While
we steamed down the bay a large dirigible
balloon and  two seaplanes flew overhead,
and  several  sub chasers  accompanied  us
until dark, and then turned back.

  The S. S.  "Karmala" was a very slow
boat,  and the next morning  we were al-
most lost from the other ships, which were
much faster.  The rest of the ships had to
slow down, so that we would not be lost.
All that day and night we brought up  the
rear, and the next morning  we got word
to drop out  and proceed to  Halifax and
there await another convoy.  On Wednes-
day morning about 11 we entered Halifax
harbor and dropped  anchor.  We  waited
there  three  days while  the  convoy  was
being assembled, and on Saturday morn-
ing  we  again  set sail, with  a convoy of
twenty-two ships and a cruiser.  This was
a very slow, tiresome journey, and lasted
a very long ten days.  Our route was far
to the north,  and most of the time it was
cold and foggy, and one day we sighted a
couple of large icebergs, away off to the
north of us.  Life on board ship was none
too  pleasant, as there was nothing to do
to occupy one's time, and also the food
was very poor at times.  Many were very
seasick and had to be put on deck or  in
sickbay.

  The morning of the 2.5th we had  a little
excitement, a strange ship being sighted
on the horizon.  The signal was given and
all ships put on full speed ahead and scat-
tered in all directions.  The cruiser  turned
and started in pursuit of this strange ship,
firing two shots, but without any results.
We had to stand by our post for over an
hour before we got the word to assemble
the convoy again.   Just before taking pas-
sage north of Ireland a wireless message
informed us that a submarine was at work
in that district, and we were instructed to
change our course, and we sailed south to
approach England by the southern route. 
  The morning of the 30th was very cold,
and a  very heavy fog was hanging over
the water.  The ships were creeping along
very slowly, with their fog horns blowing
at regular  intervals.   Finally the  fog
lifted  and  we were  surprised  to see de-
stroyers  running in  and out and around
the convoy, as if looking for trouble.  At
2:30 in the afternoon we heard a  depth
bomb barrage being put down  around  a
submarine, far off to  the starboard side
of the ship.   Not long after a lookout on
one of the  ships sighted an object in the
water.  The signal was given and all ships
put on full steam ahead and scattered in
all directions.  The  destroyers were very
busy  running about looking  for  a sub-
marine and  trying  to  put  out a smoke
screen. The ship on our port side opened
fire, and one of the other ships dropped a
couple of depth  bombs, causing a huge
gusher of water to burst forth and flames
to follow that.  The excitement was in-
tense for a few minutes, but soon we got
word to  assemble  again and proceed.  It
was  rumored that two submarines were
sunk  that afternoon, but that  never was
confirmed.

  At 10 on  the morning of the 31st the
ship stopped and took on the harbor pilot,
and we started up St. George's Channel,
arriving in Liverpool harbor at 1  o'clock
and dropped anchor.  About 6 we entered
one of the  locks,  and after some time we
docked.  Shortly  after we disembarked
and  again  put out feet on solid ground,
after  nineteen days  on the boat.   After
waiting  at the  dock for two hours we
started on a  long hike to an English rest
camp,  at Knotty  Ash, which was  about
eight   miles  out   of  Liverpool.  While
marching through the  streets the  people
would line the sidewalks and the children
would beg us for pennies, and the older
folks would sing, "The Yanks  Are Com-
ing."   The streets were dark and we were
able  to see  but little,  and  the darkness
made the distance seem greater. Everyone
would  say that it was only a little bit far-
ther, but it took us three hours to get there.
Everyone was very  tired  and  they un-
rolled their packs and did not waste much
time in getting to sleep.  Everyone slept
well on the boards that night.
  The next morning  at 9 we marched  a
short  distance to the  depot  and boarded
the train for  Southampton.   Our  trip
through England was not long, but very
pleasant.  The day was beautiful and the
rolling country through which we traveled
was very interesting, with its  old  stone
farm  houses, grouped together  here and
there, and making a picture that we had
never seen before.  At a few  places we
stopped for a short while, and at Derby
we  stopped long enough to get some cof-
fee from the Red Cross.  Arriving  at
Southampton at 7  p. m., we  marched  a
few miles out of the city to another rest
camp,  in charge  of LT. S. troops.   The
whole unit Mas billetted in one barracks,
making it very crowded.   The building
was made of sheet iron and had  a concrete
floor,  which did not have many soft spots.
After standing in line  for an hour we were
able to get some tea and jam, which was
supposed to  be a meal.  It was raining
and cold out, and about the time that we
got ready to retire all  the lights went out,
and searchlights started playing about the
skies,  looking for signs of Hun planes.
  In the morning it was still raining hard,
and we had to stand  in line for an hour
before we were able to get our breakfast.
At  2 in the afternoon we marched to  the
docks, and   after  the  usual   delay  we
boarded a small channel steamer. At 7:30
we  left the dock and started down past the
Isle of AVight, with two other steamers,
and after passing through the submarine
nets, two destroyers accompanied us part
way over to Cherbourg. We arrived in the
outer harbor at 4 and dropped anchor and
waited until  6 before we  started in and
docked.  It  started to  rain  just  as  we
started to get off the boat, and we were
forced to stand in  a  downpour of rain,
without a place to go for shelter.  We then
marched  to Tourlaville, three miles  out,
and there we tried another  English rest
camp  in charge of U. S. troops.   The
camp  was small and built on the side of a
hill.  The tents that we occupied were on
the side of the hill, and the floors were also 
on  a slant.   They were  circular tents,
about twelve  feet  in diameter, and  into
each of these  fourteen men were  packed.
Each man had to  sleep with his  feet to-
ward the center, and everyone had to  turn
at the same time,  or they  might get an
arm broken.  To  make things worse, it
rained all night and was quite cold. Some
were able to  get a little sleep, but  they
were very few indeed.  In the  morning
after breakfast we rolled our packs  and
moved over to another row  of tents.  We
were able to  get a little water that  day
and some  managed to  get  under   the
showers for two minutes and got a much
needed  bath.   The mud on the hillside
was very slippery.  Private Hartman had
to be left in  hospital here  and came on
later.
  At 12 we again  put  on  our packs  and
marched down to Cherbourg and boarded
the train.  The train consisted of a couple
of Italian coaches and all the rest were of
the "40 hommes,  8  chevaux" variety,  and
the men were packed in these.  It was  very
slow traveling, and at every  station we
would  stop and let some hospital or an-
other troop train go by.  The next day we
passed through a few large cities, and in
the  evening we arrived at  Orleans,  and
spent a couple of hours there.  All of us
made very good use of the French canteen
at the station, as most of us were a bit
hungry,  and  some  of the boys liked the
looks of the red wine. The next afternoon
we  arrived  in Nevers, and  spent several
hours there, and in  the evening we started
for Mesves-Bulcy,  arriving  there at 10 p.
m., too late to get off the train.
  At 7 a. m. next morning,  August 7, we
marched to Mesves Hospital Center,  and
we were assigned to Unit No. 5.  We were
the second unit to arrive, having been  pre-
ceded a few weeks by U. S. A. Base Hos-
pital No.  67.  We were put in temporary
barracks for a while until the others were
completed.  The country round about  was
low and rolling, and the Hospital Center
was  located on the  top of a small hill be-
tween the towns of Mesves and Bulcy.
The buildings were  built of  hollow tile or
concrete  blocks,  with wooden roofs,  cov-
 ered with tar paper.  The buildings were
 not complete, and half the buildings had
 only been started. The center was to have
 been completed the following summer, but
 the war had  progressed so rapidly that it
 was necessary to have all the work rushed
 as fast as possible.  The contract had been
 let: to an Italian  count, but the American
 engineers had to take it over and finish the
 job.  The Center was to have a capacity
 of 40,000 beds when completed, but the
 most that were in the Center at any time
 were 27,000 men, and this was at the time
 the Armistice was signed.
   Our first job  was to get some of the
 debris  cleared away  from inside and out-
 side the wards, as it was necessary to get
 the wards cleaned up and fitted out, as we
 expected to get patients at any time.  As
 the wards were only half completed, it was
 a very hard job  getting things in shape.
 We had  only  half finished  our task when
 we received our first  trainload of patients,
 at 7:30 p. m., August 15. There were 315,
 but  most  of these  were   only  slightly
 wounded and were called "sitters." There
 were a few litter cases, who were in rather
 serious condition.  There were no electric
 lights,  water  was received  only through
 temporary pipes, and at first  no bathing
 facilities  were available.  The Unit itself
 was handicapped by the non-arrival  of  a
 large part of our overseas baggage, which
 had been selected for any emergency that
 might  arise.   The equipment  not having
 arrived, the hospital  was equipped by the
 Medical Supply Depot. It was necessary
 to crudely construct from rough  lumber,
 beaverboard, tin cans and any material at
 hand, office equipment, stoves, cupboards,
 etc.,  all required but which were impos-
 sible to secure at the Center.
  When  the first trainload of patients ar-
 rived there was not a nurse  in camp, and
 the men  were forced  to  assume  these
 duties,  along with their other work, and
not knowing much about this, it was  very
 difficult;  but  with the  aid of the doctors
they were able to handle the job tempo-
rarily.  Just a week after the first patients
 arrived another train came in with 700
 more, and this taxed us to the utmost.  A 
few days later 300 more patients arrived,
and this time we were able to  get a few
nurses from Mars Center,  who helped us
out a  great deal.

  The overwork  was beginning to show
on the men, and this, along with the bad
drinking water, put a large number of our
men in the hospital, and each day a few
more  would  go.   The work became  so
severe that  we had to put  convalescent
patients to work.  It was at this time that
the Unit lost its  first man, Sam Parker,
who died the evening of September 7, just
as taps Mere sounded.  He was run down
from  overwork and contracted diphtheria.
   The wards began to fill up rapidly, and
as they were only built to hold a thousand,
it became necessary to convert the Recrea-
tion Hall into a Mrard, and in every place
that was large enough for a bed there you
would find a patient.  Ninety  tents were
erected back of the Mards and in an open
field to handle the overflow.  The Amer-
ican army had started  their drive in the
Argonne, and nearly every night a hospi-
tal train would come in loaded to the limit,
and at all hours  of the night the officers
and men had  to  get up and unload,  and
sometimes work all night.
   The bad  weather started early, and it
seemed to rain all the time, so that the mud
was terrible.  Many of the roads had not
been  completed,  and,  as there were  but
few walks anywhere, the only  thing that
we could do Mas to wade right through the
mud.  This Mas  bad for the patients, as
they who could walk could not get around,
as most of them  Mere  supplied only with
ward slippers.   Nearly  all of  the Corps
men and officers wore hip rubber boots.
   Early on the morning of September 18
Lieut. Kantner  died  very  suddenly of
heart trouble.   This was a great shock to
all of us,  as the end came very suddenly
and most unexpectedly.   The  following
day we  had  another  shock,  when Ed.
Nesser died after a brief illness.  This Mas
the third  death in less  than tM'O M^eeks,
and everyone Mas beginning to  get a little
worried.   It was the overwork that caused
the weakened condition of the men  and
made them susceptible to the different dis-
eases.
  Our Unit Mas made the Post Hospital
of the  Center, and  as a result  we had to
take care of all the contagious diseases, the
severe  fracture cases, most of the flu and
pneumonia, and all of the German prison-
ers  that arrived.  When we  received the
first Mounded Germans they  were put in
the wards alongside of  our patients, and
there Mas quite a little  objection to this.
When  they began to arrive in large num-
bers it Mas necessary to put up several
tents in the field back of the officers' quar-
ters, where they Mere placed on straw bags
on tarpaulins.  All told we received over
300 Germans, some of whom were in very
bad  shape, but most of them  were only
slightly wounded, and  these  were put to
work in the wards and kitchens  as soon as
they were  convalescent.   They were all
very Milling  to work, because  they were
treated very well  and  were  given good
food and plenty of it.
  It Mas impossible to  have any  social
activities at first, owing to the great pres-
sure of work, and  the  lack  of a proper
recreation hall, it being necessary to turn
the Red Cross hall into a ward at first
during the rush work.  The officers organ-
ized an indoor baseball  team,  and after
several practice games played three games
with Evacuation Hospital  No.  24,  the
series starting November 17.  The enlisted
men did not  fare so well, there being no
place to congregate, the barracks  being
overcrowded  and  unsuitable for anything
but sleeping.  The enlisted men started to
organize a football team, and  after a little
practice had  a game with the Engineers.
The game Mas about half over when a hos-
pital train came in, and the  game was
called  and  all the football players had to
unload patients.  On November 1 the Red
Cross was  able to secure the full use of
the recreation hall,  and forthwith opened
various  departments   therein,   including
theatrical,  reading  room, writing tables
and a canteen.  A short time afterward a
woman  of the  Army  Library Corps
brought in a fine supply of goods books,
Mrhich Mere much used. 
  During the latter part of  October the
air became full of wild rumors about con-
ditions in Germany, and the things that
were happening there.  The Allied armies
had started their great drive, and every-
where the Germans Mere slowly retreating
back to the Rhine.  Every day and night
more Mounded Mould arrive, and each had
a.new  tale about what was happening at
the front.   The morale of our men  was
none too good, as the constant overwork
was  having  a bad effect, but M'hen the
news came about the German retreat our
spirits arose,  as prospects for  a journey
home seemed brighter.
  On the 10th of November  we got word
that the Kaiser had fled, and that the Ger-
man army  M^as suing for peace.   There
was much excitement, but a  few doubted
it, as a couple of days previous the same
rumor had come out  and did not prove
true.   At 11 a. m. on November 11  a
French flyer  alighted  at the convalescent
camp  and  brought  the Mord that the
armistice had been signed early that morn-
ing.  A number of our men Mere away on
short passes,  and four of our men felt so
good that when they  got  on the train to
return from Nevers they forgot to get off
until the train reached Paris. After spend-
 ing several days in that gay city celebrat-
ing,  they  returned to  camp  and were
brought up for being A. W. O. L. They
 were given slight sentences and fined, and
then put to work in the incinerator.
   We thought at first that as soon as the
 fighting m^s over our  work would become
 much  lighter, but  it  did  not  for several
 weeks, as all hospitals at the  front Mere
 being evacuated and the patients sent to
 the rear.   About the first of December all
 the German prisoners were sent to Tours,
 and  then  the  patients  that  Mere  well
 enough to leave the hospital were sent to
 the convalescent camp in our Center.
   Thanksgiving Day came, and M-ith  it
 came  a very good  time.  Everyone was
 feeling  in  very high  spirits,  and  there
 seemed to be so much to be thankful for
 this year.  Turkey, with all the trimmings,
 was served to all, and  it was indeed a very
 enjoyable meal.
  Time seemed to go a little faster, and
it MTas not long before  Christmas had ar-
rived.  Everything took on  the holiday
spirit as much as was possible at this time.
The Mards were all decorated with colored
paper,  and most every ward had a  small
Christmas tree  of some sort.   The  Red
Cross gave everyone some present- socks.
candy,  nuts and cigarettes.  Early Christ-
mas  morning we  Mere  awakened by sev-
eral of the nurses, who went through the
wards and in front of the barracks, accom-
panied by one of the boys M'ith a violin,
singing Christmas carols.   It was before
most of us Mere up, and as we lay in bed
and heard the songs that we had learned
in our childhood, it made  one  feel a bit
blue and homesick, and there seemed to be
something sticking in our throats.

  The  enlisted  men's mess hall had  been
decorated  up in great shape with a large
Christmas tree in the middle of the room
with candles and  all the trimmings.  The
tables had been placed in long rows, and
sheets  were used for  table cloths.   The
dinner was very fine and during the  meal
Major Eagleson spoke and Captain  Hel-
ton presented a few tin medals to some
of the boys.
  Then NeMr Years' Eve came,  and with
it a lot of celebrating. There was a masked
ball affair at the recreation hall, and every
one turned out, decorated in some sort of
a costume.   Many of the boys went to
Mesves or some of the other small towns
near by  and celebrated,   and  everyone
seemed to be in the best of spirits.
  New Years'  Day  Mas rather quiet, as
the night  before  had had  some  effect on
the men,  and they did not feel quite so
good as they did the day previous.  There
was very  little  Mork, and  it was more or
less  of a holiday with  everyone.   The
enlisted men had a very fine dinner in their
mess hall, and  after  this a number of
patients from the convalescent camp put
on a vaudeville show, a stage having been
constructed at one end of the mess hall.
   A few days  later  twro  men and two
ladies from the American Actors' Associa-
tion put on a show at  the recreation hall, 
and it was a great treat to see a regular
show again.  The Red Cross had put up a
moving picture  machine some  weeks be-
fore,  but it  Mras  frequently put  out  of
commission on account of  the  weak cur-
rent from our light plant.
  The moral barometer cleared  steadily
after the beginning of the year.  Good en-
tertainments were put on in the  Recrea-
tion Hall, and  rumors, that seemed  to
originate from the upper rather than the
lower  end  of the  unit,  had it  that there
were real prospects of leaving for home in
the near future.  The  Registrar's office
put on a night force, in order to  have all
records in  good shape  for inspection,  as
it Mas reported that no unit would receive
orders to move  until all work was com-
pleted.
  On  January third our Receiving Ward
was closed and Base Hospital No. 54 be-
came the post hospital for the center.
  A "Class A Camp" Mas  established in
our unit to which all class  "A"  patients
were  sent,  ready to move out, and orders
came  to have all  patients  evacuated by
January fifteenth.
  January sixteenth Col. Bryan  received
orders relieving  him of command of Base
50 and ordering to command of Evacua-
tion Hospital No. 24. Next day he left for
Paris  on a few  days' leave, accompanied
by Adj.  INIcDonald and Sgt. Maj. Strup-
pler, leaving Major Eagleson in command
during his absence.  January  eighteenth
Major Eagleson received orders to return
to the U. S.  and the Registrar's office re-
ceived orders to turn in all records to Med-
ical Department Headquarters at Tours.
  Sundajr evening, January nineteenth,  a
memorial service was held in the  Recrea-
tion Hall,  at which addresses Mere made
by  Chaplains Bergen  and  Carroll  and
Major Eagleson.
  Monday, January twentieth, Base Hos-
pital 50  ceased to function  as  a  hospital
and all patients  Mere turned over to Base
54, to which Base 50 was attached. After
the transfer Col.  Bryan was transferred to
Evacuation Hospital No. 24, and Major
Eagleson Mas appointed C. O. of Base 50
and Assistant C. O. of Base 54.
  The records Mere all put in shape and
the wards cleaned out and closed up, ready
for a rigid  inspection.  The detachment
was moved into wards E-7 and E-8, where
the men enjoyed real  beds and  comfort-
able  quarters.  There  Mas no reluctance
at leaving the old quarters, where they had
undergone  many  hardships  during  the
stress of the heavy work.
  During a party on the evening of the
22nd  the officers presented a "Memo  of
Departure"  letter  to Major Eagleson on
the occasion of his return to the  States.
Captain Helton, who acted as spokesman,
was very eloquent  and as a result of some
of his remarks he three days later  departed
on a pleasant (() trip to Germany.
  Major Casey,  Sgt.  Farrar and  Pfc.
Schleider were  sent to Tours with the
records  of the Registrar's office.
  January 25, Capt. Helton departed for
Germany and Lieut. Knott for Le Mans.
  On January 26 Major Eagleson  turned
the command over to  Major Black.  He
gave a farewell talk to the detachment at
the mess hall, and Mas given a farewell din-
ner by  the  officers at  La Charite, after
which he departed  for Paris on his May
home.
  Fifty of the nurses were sent  to Saint
Naziere and a few days later forty more
departed for other points.
  After the  work had slacked up some of
the men Mere given opportunity to take
furloughs to rest up and  see France be-
yond  Mesves and La Charite.  However,
before many had received leave  passes a
rumor arrived that the  unit would shortly
leave  for home,  so the time  off  was cut
from  ten to three  days, which gave only
time to hit the high lights of Paris, if you
were good at working the station M. P.'s.
Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, The Follies
Bergier and the  Champs  Ely sees—that
was Paris.
  The winter climate of  Central France
we found very much like that of  good old
Puget Sound, a  little cold weather, small 
amount of snow and lots of rain.  But the
mud was deeper and more tenacious than
anything this side of Denver.
  As soon as the weather permitted the
men started to drill again to keep in trim.
  Lieut. Curran had been appointed Ath-
letic Director and some equipment was se-
cured for basket ball. A basket ball league
was organized for the centre, with ten or
twelve teams, representing the Engineers,
the  Quartermaster detachment and  the
other medical units.
  Lieut. Savitsky was made assistant to
Lieut. Curran and Sgt. Moran was ap-
pointed manager and coach for the Base
50 team.  The recreation hall was turned
into a basket ball floor, and the team began
regular practice.  Sgt. Moran made a trip
to Paris in search of jerseys for the team
to wear, but found  nothing that answered
the  purpose nearer than  some  pa jama
coats,  which the  nurses ornamented with
purple "Fifties."  George De  Bon  was
elected captain of  the team,  while Mc-
Cready, Feidler,  King, Scott,  Thompson,
Sly, Garred and Tilton assisted  him to
pick off the Center championship without
defeat.  The last game of the season was
played at Nevers.  Most of Base 50 made
the  trip down in trucks and ambulances,
but the Nevers  champions managed to
nose out a victory after a real fight.
   On  February  26 Major Black received
a cable from Major Eagleson, who had ar-
rived in Washington, D. C, stating that
his son, Lieut. "Jimmy"  Eagleson  had
just died from pneumonia contracted on
board transport on the trip home.
   Owning to the constant rains and  the
daily task  of keeping up  the  policing of
camp, with no other work  to  break the
monotony, life became rather tame.  Many
of the men w^ere being sent to schools and
to other units for service.  With it all the
morale of  the camp at times ran  rather
low.   Rumors  of home going had been
wafted from wards, surgery, mess hall and
—well, almost everywhere about the camp,
except from Headquarters.  Desire  and
eternal hope combined in an effort to make
actual that Munich Mas without foundation
of fact.  For several weeks this had been
true, but on March 18 our orders came and
we prepared to leave on the 20th.  Many
of the officers had received promotion and
Major Black having been  transferred  to
another camp for  service, Lt. Col. Allen
was left in command of the unit.  Lieut.
Vaughn and  Sgt. Cammack were sent  to
Germany  for duty, and  Lieut.  Buckner
was detailed to bring the nurses home.
  On the 18th there was a final inspection
and the day was spent in packing up and
in policing the camp.  Probably more en-
thusiasm for  work was displayed by the
men that day  than ever  before, when
everybody went after the job of cleaning
up for  the final inspection that would give
us permanent release.   Work Mas play
with prospects of a westward departure on
the morrow.
  There is no record of  any one having
overslept on the morning of March 20, al-
though the reveille sounded at four-thirty
a. m.   It  was cold and rainy, but every
one responded promptly.  Even the skies
were weeping at our departure.  After a
hasty breakfast we "fell in," and with feet
that were light in spite of the souvenirs of
Buley  mud that still clung to them, we
marched through the early  morning mist
down to the little station at Mesves.
  Entraining took only a few moments.
Being the last unit to board the train, we
were allotted  second and  third class Ger-
man coaches and the men were parked in
on the "40 hommes ou 8 chevaux" plan,
but every one was happy,  even at that.
The nurses were down at the station to see
us off.   The  train was soon  on the way
and as  the old hospital center and the lit-
tle towns  of Mesves and Buley dropped
from sight behind the  hills for the  last
time, mixed memories  of the past eight
months came back to us, but were soon lost
in the excitement of home prospects.
  Travel  was very slow on  the  French
troop train and the day dragged wearily
on.   Every town  and  almost every  side
track meant  delay until  we   arrived   at
Tours, where our train was switched over
to the American line, which was more di- 
rect and we made better speed.  Eleven-
thirty of the morning of the twenty-second
found  us in Brest.  We  were detrained
and, after a bite to eat, we started on the
long uphill march to the  camp, near the
Pontanezen barracks, which were  behind
the old Napoleon barracks at Lambezellec,
out on the hill  above Brest.  The barracks
and bunks here were the least comfortable
that we  encountered  during  "our trip
abroad."  The  buildings  were  made  of
sheet iron, without floors, and  the bunks
were constructed of  chicken wire.   Some
of the luckier fellows drew straw ticks—
the rest of us got up in the morning look-
ing somewhat at though  they  had spent
the night on  a  waffle iron.  Everybody
suffered from cold, and  it rained fifteen
out of the sixteen days that we spent in
camp, during which time some fourteen
inches of water fell.  The camp thus kept
up its reputation of being the muddiest in
the A. E. F.  All travel  had to be made
by means of "duck boards," lest you might
get stuck in the mire.
   Inspections and work details to the saw
mill, the kitchen, hangar constructing, and
a hundred other places, filled most of our
time at Brest.
   While we were at Brest we lost four of
our men, Harry Inkster going to the hos-
pital with appendicitis, Sgts. Spear, Phil-
lips and Haynes being transferred to duty
at Headquarters.
   The morning of the seventh of April we
rolled our blankets  for the last time  on
French soil and marched back over the
long road down to the docks.  A lighter
took  us  out  to the former  Hamburg-
American liner Graf. Wsldersee.   She
had  apparently  been fitted up  for trans-
port service and was much more comfort-
able than the old Karmala, which had tak-
en us over.  At about five o'clock, anchor
was  weighed and we headed out toward
the setting sun—though we couldn't see it.
That was a happy moment.  Off for home
at last!
   On the whole, the weather man was kind
to us crossing, though he did drop a couple
of little storms on us, that  slowed up prog-
ress, but the trip seemed endless and mo-
notonous for all that.  Now that we were
headed in the right direction, time couldn't
pass fast enough and we spent much of
our time planning those first few days at
home: steaks, salads, pie, cake, ice cream,
  We  had left  Camp  Fremont on  the
Fourth of July, 1918, and it was Easter
morning, 1919, when we sailed into New
York harbor.   Glorious day!   America
again!    Liberty  and the Battery never
looked better to immigrants from the most
oppressed areas of Europe than they  did
to us as they rose out of the mist.
  We  passed the Battery and started up
the  Hudson river at a very slow rate of
speed.   A small boat  representing  the
Mayor's office came alongside the ship and
the  band that  they  had on board played
several  selections,  and  ended up  with
"Home, Sweet Home."
  We  finally  docked at  Hoboken,  and
after a short delay we marched off the boat
and stood on the dock for a while.  The
Salvation Army gave us telegraph blanks
to fill out and  then  sent the  messages  for
us free of charge.  The Red Cross had a
very large canteen on the second floor of
the  dock and  we marched up there  and
were given a very good meal.  We then
marched a short distance to the ferry, and
took a ride to Wakekhan, where we board-
ed a train for Dumont.  From there  we
marched  a short distance  to Camp Mer-
ritt, where we arrived at 3 p. m.
  We were immediately assigned to quar-
ters near the barracks which we occupied
in 1918.   After unrolling our packs  we
went through the sterilizer the first thing,
and had a chance to clean up.  After we
got through with that all of us looked like
a mess. The next day we again rolled  our
packs  and moved to different quarters.
Life in camp was rather easy, as there was
very little work to  do  and everyone  was
given a chance to go to New York  and
take in all the sights.
  Ed  Tremper  was taken sick with  the
measles and sent to the hospital,  where
later he became very ill with pneumonia. 
Four men who had  the  bunks near him
were put in quarantine and had to remain
behind when the outfit left for home.
  The twenty-eighth of  April we again
rolled our packs and  marched down to the
train, and late in the  afternoon we started
on our last long journey.  At every sta-
tion all along the May across the continent
the Red Cross or some other patriotic or-
ganization would meet us and give us all
kinds of good things  to eat, and it seemed
like a feast all the way.
  Early on the morning of INI ay third we
arrived in Portland and were met there by
Major Eagleson,  who gave us a hearty
welcome.  We were in Portland for a cou-
ple of hours and then started for Seattle,
where we arrived at two-thirty.  The train
pulled in at the O. & W.  depot, and there
was  a large crowd gathered to greet us,
and as we marched up stairs it looked like
the mob outside was going to tear the iron
bars down.   When  we  got outside we
found a very warm  welcome waiting for
us.  They had arranged  to have autos to
take us to the Hotel  Washington, instead
of marching up there. The men were then
allowed to go to their homes, and that eve-
ning the Red Cross gave the  members of
the unit a dinner at the Red Cross Jumble
Shop.  There a number  of speeches made
by different officers of the unit and words
of "Welcome Home" extended by citizens.
  The next morning at  eight  the unit as-
sembled at the  depot and left for  Camp
Lewis, where we arrived at one.  After a
physical inspection we marched to the far
end of the  camp, where  we were billeted.
Very little  was done  that day, and  it was
not until the next morning, that we  began
to turn in  our  equipment, and the men
started to get their discharge papers. Late
that afternoon found the last of the unit
with their discharges  in their pockets and
their belongings in a bag ready to take the
train for Seattle and their homes, and once
again  to enter into their old  duties,  and
put on the "civies."
  And this is the end, as far as military
duties were concerned, of an organization
that wrent when called, going  through all
the hardships of war and doing the  great-
est work of all, the reconstruction of man,
and not destruction.
ADMISSIONS  TO  UNITED  STATES  ARMY BASE HOSPITAL NO. 50,
                 AUGUST 15, 1918,  TO FEBRUARY 19, 1919

      Medical Primary Admissions................___.............................................. 3733
      Battle Surgery Primary Admissions.......................................................... 1732
      Other Surgery Primary Admissions.......................................................... 1550
      Other Admissions Within Mesves  Center......................___.......................   384

      Total of Admissions Made to Base Hospital No. 50...................._____ 7399
          THE DEATHS AMONG THE OFFICERS AND CORPS MEN WERE AS FOLLOWS:

Samuel Parker, Private..................................September  7, 1918................Diphtheria
Lt. William C. Kantner................................September 18, 1918................Heart Disease
Ed. J. Nesser, Private........................................September 19, 1918................Penumonia
Charles N. Fletcher, Private 1st Class........October 9, 1918......................Influenza
William  B. White, Private............................November 6, 1918..................Pneumonia
74 
THE  NURSE  CORPS
      THE assembling of the nursing sec-
      tion of  all Red Cross Units was
      perhaps, much  more  simple than
      the assembling  of the rest of  the
Unit in that the nursing force of all Red
Cross Units was gathered through the Red
Cross Nursing Department of our Amer-
ican  Nurses Association.   In  times of
peace, when we become a member of  our
Red  Cross Nursing Department we auto-
matically become a reserve of the Amer-
ican  Army; has been so for quite a good
many years. So in case of war,  there  is a
large body of nurses that can be  mustered
into  the service in a very short time.  Of
course they must be approved by the Sur-
geon General,  and if joining a  Unit,  the
Commanding Officer of that Unit, if mus-
tered into the  Army.   All appointments
and  communications  must pass through
the local Red Cross Nursing Department.
  Our Base Hospital No.  50 being a Red
Cross Unit, we entered the service in that
way. I believe that a few wore transferred
to the Unit from some other service.  As
I understand, it was customary to give the
nurses a longer  or shorter time in some
Army Camp so  that they might  become
familiar with the Army methods, rules  and
regulations, also to test out the fibre of the
individual nurse.
  Each  nurse Mas asked to set a date, the
earliest possible, when  she would be read)*
for a call to service, and I  think very  few
were called before those dates. The orders
to report  for  service,  came  through  our
local Red Cross Nursing Department to-
gether with the assignment to some Camp
and  the travel orders.   After taking  the
oath of office, which, if possible, Mas on the
day we Mere to leave, we received the order
for our transportation.
  There Mere a few of our  Unit  who were
mustered into the service too late to get the
Camp training, but by the middle of June,
1918, those who went to Camps at all, had
been called.  Our Unit was represented at
ten different Camps.  Camp Lewis, Wash-
ington—Camp Dodge, Iowa—Camp Tay-
lor,  Kentucky—Camp Riley,  Kansas—
Camp Cody, New Mexico—Camp Kear-
ney,  California—Camp Custer, Michigan
—Camp Dix, New Jersey—Camp Grant,
Illinois and Camp  Sherman, Ohio—the
largest number going to Camp Riley.   All
of these Camps, except Camp Lewis, being
in very much hotter climates than we were
accustomed  to—working with the ther-
mometer  registering 96° and more in  the
shade, often wearing that delight  known
as a  "gauze  face mask," I am sure all of
us longed more than once  for our green
hills  and  cool Sound breezes.   The most
beautiful  memory  I carried away from
Camp life, and I am sure most of us had
the same  experience, was the ceremony of
"lowering the Colors" at six in the after-
noon.  All nurses who were off  duty at
that  time, formed in line—in the white
uniform—and as the boys marched by, we
were marched in just behind the band, and
wore governed by the same rules and regu-
lations that the soldiers were.   It certainly
did much to make us feel that we were a
part of the great whole.
  I do not know just what controlled  our
movements,  our gathering  in New York,
etc.,  unless  it  was the movement of  the
other part of the Unit.  At our Camp, we
were told on "Wednesday noon, July 17th,
that we would leave for New York at 2:40
P. M. the next day if our orders came,
and  they did.  There was but little sleep
that night among the nurses  who were to
leave, for added to the excitement, there
was  a good deal of actual  work to  do,
laundry,   packing,  etc.   Through some
oversight, we were  started  off  without 
reservations, so  we had a most disagree-
able experience,  but perhaps we were bet-
ter fitted to meet what we had to later.
Some sectors of  the I rnit had special cars,
though, and travelled in great shape. We
arrived in New  York at 2 A. M., Satur-
day, finding some of our Unit already
there and all arrived within a day or two.
Government Headquarters for the nurses
was at Holly Hotel, so we first reported
there and were assigned to Hotel Judson.
If we thought we were hot in the Camps,
we soon learned that we  had never been
hot before.  New York certainly took the
starch  out of us at  first.   Hotel Judson
fronts  on  Washington  Square and  we
often almost envied the groups that gath-
ered there and seemed to almost spend the
night.   But with regular duties to per-
form and when they were done, the ability
to take a ride on top of one of the busses
saved the day for us.

   We  were not allowed to leave our Hotel
until after roll call at 10 A. M. We had
drill in the Armory each day at 11 A. M.
conducted by Lt. Dale followed by a song
service  conducted by Dr.  Reed, both  of
whom  we became very fond of. Though
it was very hot, I believe most of the nurses
thoroughly  enjoyed the  hours spent  in
drill.  We were  told that it was an Army
Order, that no Unit should go across with-
out  this drill,  brought  about  by some
disaster  "overseas"  not  long before  mo
reached New York.

   Dr.  Crosby of the St.  James Chapel,
was a very good  friend of  all nurses.  We
had an opportunity to join French classes
organized by him, and each  Unit had  a
Dedicatory service in his Chapel.
   We want to take this opportunity again,
as a Unit, to thank the young women  of
Seattle who made it possible for our Unit
to have  such a  beautiful flag, and the
Northwest Red  Cross  Chapter for their
generous gift.   Mr.  Hilton, of the bank
through which our checks were received,
was nice to us in  a great many ways. One
of the  things that he did  for us was  to
make it possible for us to see the stock
exchange in  operation.  It had been closed
 to the public since the beginning of the
 war.
   Other friends we  found in  New York
 were K. C. B. and  Mrs. Beaton.  K. C. B.
 became the "God Father" of the Unit.  In
 ways too numerous to mention, he saw that
 we had a good time.  Theatre  tickets, au-
 tomobile rides, picnics  and dinners made
 our hours off duty very happy.

   When we wore told that we  would have
 our dedicatory flag service August 15th,
 at 9 A.  M., we were  sure that we were
 going soon, but  for some reason we were
 held some time.   Other nurses  were ar-
 riving all of the time until  there wore 740,
 seven full Units and one small one of 40,
 there in all.  On August 20, 1918, we had
 a review in unit formation, in the Armory
 before some of  the Army Officers.   Lt.
 Dale said he wanted  to compliment us, or
 rather pass on some compliments he re-
 ceived for our good work in the review, so
 we could not have been wholly  bad.
   Through some "hook or  crook"  some
 one had learned that  Units  left  within
 twenty-four hours  after having throat ex-
 amination.  So when we were told Friday
 morning to assemble at 2:15  P. M.  for
 throat examination mo  knew that we were
 going very soon.  We were  instructed,
 also, to have all baggage in the  baggage
 room of the hotel by eight o'clock Satur-
 day morning.  At roll call  on Saturday
 morning we wore told  wo were all to be
 on board by four o'clock that  afternoon,
 that  we were to be  very  careful not  to
 talk  about  it and were  sent in small
 groups fifteen or twenty minutes apart.
  We were to sail on a French transport,
 also the nurses of another Unit.  We left
 the dock at 10:30  Sunday morning, Au-
 gust 24th, but just went out into the in-
 ner harbor where we waited until Monday
 afternoon about  four o'clock.  Two large
 American transports passed  and we soon
lifted anchor and followed them.  Our es-
 cort of destroyers and  planes left us that
night, all three  transports  having such
speed that they  did not need  them until
we reached the  danger  zone  around
France. 
  We certainly wore well cared for.  We
wore divided into squads consisting of six
nurses and two officers, each squad having
its  permanent  position  before the  boat
that they wore to have to use should there
be trouble.  When the fire or danger call
sounded through the boat, it was our busi-
ness to  get into position in the least pos-
sible time.  Several mornings just at sun-
rise, or between  four and  six we were
called to that position  and kept it until
broad day light.  Sunrise and  sunset,  or
twilight, being the most dangerous times
of the day.  One rough morning we got
the call  to go on board.  Of course we got
there  as quickly  as possible, but no offi-
cers showed up.  We stayed a little while,
but the  waves were beginning to wash the
deck,  so we wont below.  Afterward, we
learned  that  our call Mas a mistake.
  In mid ocean one day we had  quite a
scare.   We did not realize there was trou-
ble until the ships began to fall into bat-
tle  formation, then  the guns  above us be-
gan to talk.  A small boat had been sight-
ed on the horizon to the North that would
not answer signals, so they were  playing
safe, I guess. That night our course was
changed,  but we  never heard anything
more  about  it.  The  last two  nights  on
board we were told to sleep in our clothes,
and it  was a misdemeanor to be found
without a life belt on, or at least in your
hands.   Though everyone  seemed  very
happy,  I guess we  were all very glad to
see the  escort of destroyers, planes and
dirigibles.
  Three of the nurses were sent from the
ship direct to the hospital with the "Flu"
when  we reached Brest.  There  were  no
facilities for landing there then, so we had
to get into a small boat to land, and then
went  in trucks  to  the  "rest camp"  the
Pontanezen Barracks, where we  were to
stay a few days.   We were  quartered in
a hundred bed  ward,  and most of  the
nurses went  on  duty, at least  a  part  of
a day,  the following day and every day
we  were there.  While we  were  waiting
on the dock  for the trucks to take us to
the Camp, a small  boat of wounded sol-
diers was leaving for one  of the  return-
ing transports.  The second day we were
at camp, they returned; had been attacked
by subs, fought all night and got a hole
eighteen feet long in the boat, so had to
put back for repairs.  We were moved to
a ward outside of the wall so that these
men could have the ward we were in. We
certainly began to feel as though we were
seeing the result of  the  war long before
reaching our real destination.
  Friday  afternoon our  orders to  start
for Mesves-Bulcy at six  o'clock  the fol-
lowing morning arrived.  Ever since leav-
ing the boat the nurses had been taken
sick,  one  by  one, until  when we were
ready to go nineteen had to be  left be-
hind.   But all were able to follow within
a few weeks, though some of the nurses
were very sick.  We had found three  of
our own Seattle nurses  at Brest, and we
hated to leave them behind.   As there
was no electric light in our ward, we were
compelled to pack mostly by candle light,
and every little while we would hear a dis-
tress signal  from some part of the ward,
and a request  to stow away something in
a neighbor's bag.  At four A. M. a guard
called us and told us that hot coffee would
be served at the officers' mess,  for which
we  waited  an hour,  more or less.   Just
at daylight, in a typical Seattle rain, we
were loaded into large trucks, sitting on
our baggage, and started for the depot in
Brest.  Of  course we arrived  early but
did not get  started on our journey until
nine o'clock, on such a funny little train,
some first, second and third class cars. We
were placed in groups to fit the compart-
ments and some of them were a little bit
full.  Each  group had its own rations, so
it could eat when it felt pleased, regardless
of the  rest.  These  rations consisted  of
regulation diet, tin cans and all. Unfortu-
nately some of us were  short a few can
openers, etc.
  After stowing away our baggage in our
compartments there  did not seem to  be
very much room left, but even so the first
twenty-four hours wore not so uncomfort-
able.  Whenever the train stopped a rush
for any water faucet in sight was on, and
we considered ourselves very lucky if we 
found  one  not  marked "pas  potables."
It might be the only opportunity of the
day to use our toilet articles, so they wore
very much in evidence.   At Charles we
were trying to find something to eat and
one nurse of another Unit wandered too
far afield, and the train  started without
her.  Our Unit was in the rear part of the
train,  and  some  of the nurses saw this
nurse  running  for the train and so the
word was passed  front.  They did not go
back, the train was side tracked at the
first opportunity and she came later on an
express train.  The soldiers all along the
way were so nice  to us; some of them had
not seen an American woman for months.
   Some of our  older nurses who  had
nursed on  cases  in  the country  when  it
was  no unusual thing to be on a case for-
ty-eight hours and maybe longer without
relief,  thought we knew what it was to be
tired, but it seemed we never did know be-
fore. Tuesday morning, after three nights
of trying to sleep in space we could not
sit comfortably in, let alone trying to lie
down,  we thought even a hard bench, with
plenty of room to stretch out in, would be
very acceptable. At one of our long stops
on Monday, a few of our nurses  went
foraging in one of the nearby fields and
returned with some hay which they spread
on their floor.   They reported Tuesday
morning "slept well."  We certainly were
a  dirty, tired lot  of  nurses  when we
reached our Hospital Tuesday, and were
very glad to see some familiar faces.  Lt.
Kantner was the first  one  we saw,  and
soon Major Eagleson looked us up to see
if we  were  all located and comfortable.
Rather think they were a little glad to see
us, as the day before a large train load of
wounded had been received right from the
front.   "We were called upon very soon to
show that we were real soldiers, for tired
as we all were,  sixteen of the number had
to go on night duty that night, and we ar-
rived late in the afternoon.
   As soon as wo  reached Mesves we be-
came a part of the working whole, so the
history of the Unit at Mesves includes the
history of the nurses.  I want to  say that
I have never been associated with a more
loyal group of women.  If there was any-
thing to be done, they did  it.   The  I nit
throughout did good team work. Though
they knew  how to have  a good  time, they
also knew  how to throw themselves into
work just  as well.  I consider it  one of
the greatest privileges of my  life  that  I
was a part of Base  Hospital No. 50.
  Along in the first  of January,  1919,
when our work  seemed about  done, and
the breaking up was  not far  ahead, the
nurses were given the  opportunity to sign
up, as to whether they wanted to go home,
or to stay on for  further  service.  The
larger part signed up for further service.
  On January 25th  we received  orders
for fifty nurses to report  for duty  at
Nantes under the organization of Evacu-
ation Hospital No. 31.   Just  at the last
minute I became one  of the fifty.  After
a very interesting  trip, with several de-
lays for various reasons, we reached Nan-
tes. The only pleasant feature of the work
there was that we  wore in a most beau-
tiful and interesting part of the country,
and the work Avas not  so hard but that we
could see a great deal of it.  Had  any of
us needed anything to make us realize to
the full, what kind  of working conditions
we  had at Base Hospital No. 50, we who
went  to  Nantes  certainly  realized  that
they were far different in Nantes.   With
Major Eagleson there  was always  that
feeling that he trusted  us  and  expected
the very best always from us, so the team
work was better for it.  The  spirit that
was abroad in our Unit to give the  very
best that was in us, had its  origin in the
attitude of our Commander, Major Eag-
leson, which created in us the  big  family
spirit.   We,  as nurses,  considered  our-
selves very fortunate  to work  with  such
men as  we had in  our  Seattle Unit  as
officers.
  The remainder of the Unit, or rather
the nurses, who wore  supposed to  return
to the United  States  very soon after we
left the  latter part of January, did not
until just before the first group left Nan-
tes.  While waiting for  orders they saw
a great deal of the  country  around Mes-
ves.  Most of us had furloughs, but a few 
were  sent home  from Nantes without it.
When  the  group  that  I  started with
reached Brest, the Base Hospital No. 50
nurses in charges of Capt.  Buckner  and
Miss  Coleman had  sailed for New York
not very long before.  They travelled as
Base  Hospital No. 50 Nurses, but  the
rest of us who came in small groups trav-
elled  as casuals.   A few  of our  nurses
came by way  of Bordeaux, but most all
of them through Brest. One of our nurses
was  chosen  from  a group of  nurses at
Bordeaux  to chaperone a  lot  of French
brides;  she and another nurse with her be-
ing  the only  ones on  board  that ship.
Several asked  for  and received further
duty  in Poland, Bulgaria  and Germany,
some not getting home until after the first
of January, 1921.
   After the mystery and  uncertainty of
the trip over to France and  the months
passed  in strange  ways, the  trip home
seemed rather  monotonous.   We  had a
               THE YANKEE


We hear a lot about the sacrifices
That we Yankee boys have made,
And they're raising piles of money,
Yes, there's many a dollar paid
To give us good amusement
And to pass our moments dull.
It seems to be incessant
And there isn't any lull.

But it seems like in the chatter
'Bout the good old Yankee boys
They forget about the Yankee girls
Whore  sacrificing joys.
I'm speaking of the Red Cross Nurse
Who has come  across the sea
To help nurse back to health
Such as you and me.
very smooth trip, there being no seasick-
ness,  everyone  seemed  to have the best
time possible.  When we wore met out in
the harbor of New York by the boat loads
of people, it was rather nice to have one
here and there  hail a familiar face even
though they all looked strange to us.   It
was a long, hot  day before wo finished
the formality of  being  examined by  the
Quarantine Officer  and the  physical  ex-
amination, but  we had  been hardened to
standing in line, so that  helped some.  The
stay  in  New  York  was  comparatively
short.   We were discharged  there and
sent by the shortest route possible to our
different destinations.
  The main body of the nurses of  the
Unit  received a royal welcome to Seattle
and were banqueted,  etc.,  but  the  strag-
glers  just  slipped in, all very glad to see
Seattle and old familiar faces.
                     Cora E.  Gillespie,
                      ACTING CHIEF NURSE.
CROSS NURSE


      Her efforts are unceasing
      And her voice is always cheery.
      She'll rub your back up nice
      Or feel your pulse or give you pills
      Or pack you up in ice.
      In fact, there isn't anything
      On  earth that she won't do.

      Why, she'll even write a letter
      To your sweetheart fond and true.
      So while we're passing on the way
      Don't you just think we  ought
      To give this dear good Yankee girl
      At least a passing thought?
      I know that many a boy  who's sick
      Soon would need a  hearse
      If it weren't for the blessing
      Called the Yankee Red Cross Nurse.
She works on uncomplaining.
Tho she be tired and weary
Pvt. Albert C. Polhamus.
      One of  our patients. 
        3n Jiemortam

    Five men  from Fifty's ranks  have gone
    Who home with us shall not return:
    One First Lieutenant, loved by all,
    Who came to France at duty's call,
    To give his skillful surgeon's hand
    To wounded men  from No-Man's-Land;
    But in the silence of the night
    His soul mysteriously winged its  flight.

    Four valiant corps men, brave and true,
    Who fought diseases to subdue,
    And in  the struggle paid the cost—
    Their own vitality was lost;
    Then finally in the clutches caught
    Of dread  disease that  they  had  fought,
    They succumbed to the enemy
    And passed on to Eternity.

    Five white crosses mark their graves,
    Outside the little  "ville de  Meves,"
    Where flows the peaceful "flleure  Loire,"
    That coming from a distance  far
    Meanders through the  heart of France
    A westward course to find  by chance—
    Then rushing  unrestrained  and free
    It empties out into the sea.

    Five sacred bodies shall some day,
    Long after years  of slow decay,
    In  mystic silence  make their  way
    Through rock  and sand and soil and clay,
    To where those quiet  waters  go;
    And there forever they shall flow
    Still westward, toward their native land,
    To lose themselves in  ocean's  span.

    Five sacred memories  thus shall flow
    Within the hearts of us below,
    Expanding in  the years to  come,
    And radiating shall go on,
    Until at every heart is laid
    The sacrifices  that they made;
    Then lose themselves in that vast  throng,
    Who gave their lives to right the  wrong.

    Five stars of gold their deeds shall tell,
    Within the homes  they loved so well;
    And as each star doth shed its light
    Most radiant through its five points bright,
    So shall our unit  show to men
    How best we did  in serving them,
    Through five brave heroes  of  our corps,
    Whose deeds shall live forevermore.

             Hansen Bergen,
                   Chaplain Base Hosp.  No. 50.
Read at Memorial Service,  January 19, 1919.
80 
MEMORIAL   SERVICE
              Sundaj) evening, January 19, 1919
       WHILE wo are assembled here to-
       night,  primarily for the  purpose
       of paying homage to our precious
       dead, we must not forget the liv-
ing, who are still with us, and as this may
possibly be the last function, which I may
have the  privilege of attending with you
in France, I am going to make use of this
opportunity to express  my appreciation
of the services rendered by you all.
   A little over one year ago I was  called
to Washington and requested by the Red
Cross,  under the authority of the War
Department, to organize and direct the
last hospital unit to be fathered by them.
They named the baby the  University of
Washington  Base  Hospital,  afterward
known as U. S. Army Base Hospital No.
50.  I  was told to take  good care of the
infant  and to be sure that it developed
rapidly, since it might not be long before
its services  would be needed  over  seas.
Owing to the  quick change in affairs of
war over here we were called out in three
months, and after another  three months
of education at Camp Fremont, our child
was started out to try to function with the
older Units in France.
   We  wore first  organized for 500 beds
and then came a sudden order to double
our capacity.   When we arrived at the
Mesves Hospital Center, we found that
our seven months old child must do the
work of two full grown ups, namely 2000
beds.  The work grew and our Provision-
al Units in the Center had to be organized
and we gave freely of our strength to help
them bear the burden of suffering human-
ity.  But "Flanders' Fields" and "France's
Forests"  still  sent out our  stricken and
dying and with them many  of  our Allies,
and  even  fallen enemies, and 500 more
beds were added to our Unit.  In the last
great struggle of the defeated Hun, 200
additional beds were provided on cots and
straw sacks,  until our capacity reached
2700. During the five months of our ac-
tive  service  Base Hospital  No. 50 has
cared for nearly 7500 patients.  How has
this been accomplished, do you ask? Only
by  the  faithful  performance  of  every
duty  by the Staff, Nurses,  and Corps
Men.  To the  Staff,  many of whom  I
have  known  intimately  for  years,  while
others came to us as total strangers, whom
I have  learned to love  most dearly for
their efficiency and personal worth,  I can
only say "God bless you fellows."   You
have performed your laborious duties well
and faithfully.  While your services may
not have been rewarded  by military hon-
ors,  permit  me  to  express to you the
praise extended  by a  recent  general in-
spector to the medical officers after  going
over our hospital.  He said, "Gentlemen,
we  do not always find  everything  as it
should be and I am sorry to have to criti-
cize on some points, but I want to compli-
ment you on the great work you  have
done, and that you have been able to do
it so well with your equipment."
  Words cannot express my appreciation
of the excellent service performed by the
Nurse Corps.
  Their greatest reward will be the endur-
ing  gratitude of those crushed human
forms whom they so tenderly nursed back
to life again.  We can say of the Nurse,
with Solomon of old, "She riseth while it
is yet night and giveth meat to her house-
hold."  How many  mornings  have  I
peeped  out  of my window at break of
day  and observed the day nurses  going
cheerfully to their labors, and  the night
shift returning from their vigils.  Again
with Solomon, I say to the Nurse,  "Give 
her of the fruit of her hands; let her own
works praise her in the gates."
  And  to  the Detachment  Men,  I can
best express my feeling in saying,  "Well
done, thou  good  and  faithful  servant."
One year ago you wore a bunch of dudish
students, with peg topped trousers, dapper
bank cashiers and  tellers,  soft handed
salesmen, with only an occasional horny-
fisted man of toil, but, while not knowing
what was in store for you  later on, every
one of  you came  into  the service  of the
Unit with a zest that  was a pleasure to
observe. One could hardly recognize this
same bunch now as you  peel potatoes,
scrub floors, carry pails and  do all sorts
of police duty.  These are only some of
the rough places of service, which many
have  had to bear,  but you have entered
into all with  the same zeal  and enthusi-
asm.  You have tenderly cared for the
sick and wounded in such a way as to de-
serve great  credit.  I can never  forget
those early  days of our active  existence,
when 200 men, green  at  hospital work,
cared for nearly 1200  patients,  without a
female nurse in the hospital, and you did
it to the best of your ability.   Not many
rewards have come to recompense you for
your labors, but remember  that  to you
wdio have sacrified position and comfort,
it has been  a labor of  love, which seldom
brings  reward in material things.  We
shall  have  many pleasant memories  of
these days of toil,  and in  the future re-
unions they will come back to you in jest
and story, softened and hallowed by every
intervening  year, and  "When the stream
which overflowed  the  soul  was  passed
away, a consciousness remained  that  it
had left, deposited upon the  silent  shore
of memory, images and precious thoughts,
that  shall  not die, and cannot  be de-
stroyed."   We must not  forget our at-
tached  men  and  convalescents who  so
nobly gave of their returning strength and
their  skill in helping to perform our du-
ties.  Without their valuable  services the
work could not have been carried on.  All
honor and praise to them.
  Heaven forbid that we forget our most
worthy  Red  Cross Corps  of  workers.
They have been  untiring in their efforts
to entertain, and distribute comfort and
good cheer.  Their work will remain im-
pressed  on the  memories  of  the  many
whom they have so ably served, while that
of many others of us will have long since
been erased  by time.  It has been  said
that the  men who went over the top  can-
not  be praised too  highly, but they de-
serve no  more credit  than the Medical De-
partment which  has fought  the  unseen
enemies,  "Diseases," that  have wounded
and killed more  than have been slain by
German shot,  shell  and  poison  gas.
Neither  has greater courage been shown
than that exhibited  by the Medical  De-
partment in the  pneumonia,  diphtheria
and meningitis wards of hospitals,  where
in administering  to the needs of sick sol-
diers, they have daily and nightly risked
their own lives.  He who risks his  own
life to save others is  rewarded only by the
consciousness  of  having performed his
duty faithfully, while the fighting man  is
decorated with honors  and his deeds of
valor are written in song and story.   The
casualties in the Medical Corps in  this
war have been second only to those in the
infantry.  Even in our own hospital here,
leagues away from the firing line, our cas-
ualties from sickness have  been very
heavy. In the past five months, thirty per
cent of the Officers, forty-three per cent of
the Nurses and forty-eight per cent of the
Detachment have been under treatment in
the hospital, while large numbers have been
sick in quarters.   As a  result of disease
we have lost by death one Officer and four
Corps men.  We come here this evening
to  honor these  true  Knights  of  ours,
whose dust  lies  on Yonder Knoll, over-
looking  the  river  Loire.  What  more
beautiful spot  could  they have  chosen
themselves for a last resting place ?  How
fitting are the words of Lillard,  (with
slight change), in reply to Col. McCrae:
       "And we will keep
     True faith with you, who lie asleep
     With each a cross to mark his bed,
     And  lilies blowing overhead,
     Where once his own life blood ran red.
     So let your rest be sweet and deep,
         In France's Fields."
82 
  To  Samuel Parker,  Lieut. Wm.  C.
Kantner,  Edward J. Nesser,  Charles N.
Fletcher  and Wm. B.  White, we most
humbly bow in admiration and praise for
they died  fighting dread disease  to  the
last breath. They sacrified their own lives
that others might live, thus following out
the teaching  of  the  Great  Pilot, whom
they "met face to face when they crossed
the bar,"  and were received with  a gra-
cious "Well done, enter thou into the joy
of thy Lord."
  Let us follow their example of fidelity
to duty, and when the day of final reck-
oning shall come we shall see them again,
for:
  "There is no death; what seems so is transition.
   This life of mortal breath
   Is but a suburb of the life Elysian
   Whose portal we call death."
                       J. B. Eagleson,
                      MAJOR M. C, U. S. A.
U. S. ARMY BASE HOSPITAL NO. 50
From:  The Officers B. H. 50.
January 22, 1919.
To:  Major J. B. Eagleson, Commanding Officer, Base Hospital No. 50.
Subject:  Memo  of Departure.
     1.  Realizing that we will never be able to thank you enough for your untiring efforts
in our behalf, nevertheless we cannot help trying to express the regret and sorrow that your
departure gives us.
     2.  You have been more than a Commanding Officer; you have been like a father to us
all, and not one of us but realizes that the reason Base Hospital 50 is given credit for hav-
ing done more and better work than any other Base Hospital, is because of your unceasing
and skillful efforts.
     3.  Thanks and sentiments of appreciation seem small indeed  in return for your hard
work, but we wish you to go home with the realization in your heart that we, the men who
have served under you, appreciate the  work you have done and we will  always cherish the
memories of our  Mesves Hospital Days.

                                               GOD BLESS YOU.
Major Forest A. Black     Lieut,.
Major H. Eugene Allen    Lieut.
Major N. A. Cary          Lieut.
Major Edward P. Fick      Lieut.
Major John R. Hawkins    Lieut.
Capt. Copeland Plummer    Lieut.
Capt. Frank T. Wilt       Lieut.
Capt. T. F. Shinnick       Lieut.
Capt. Robert Hamilton     Lieut.
Capt. Everett O. Jones     Lieut.
Capt. Alfred J. Helton     Lieut.
Capt. W. E. Lowrie        Lieut.
Lieut. Louis Savitsky       Lieut.
Lieut. Gustave A. Braun    Lieut.
Lieut. Chas. F. McDonald   Lieut.
Lieut. Albert F. Mattice   Lieht.
Lieut. LeR. Wilkins       Lieut.
H. T. Buckner
W. T. Garman
John Denno
August E. Gehrke
Howard C. Randolph
Howard J. Knott
Harold B. Thompson
Kenneth Vaughn
William  M. Carroll
Hansen Bergen
J. R. Carothers
Arthur K. Stebbins
Walter K. Schmidt
George L. Curran
James A.  Lybecker
John J. Szymanski
Guy E. Marcy
83 
          BASE  HOSPITAL  NO.  50

                            October  13th, 1918.
To the Members of the Detachment:
  We wish  to  express  to you  our appreciation of
the  splendid way in  which you have carried on the
work of Base Hospital  No. 50 during the stress of
the  heavy service  for the past  ten days.  We have
had  to  contend with  extra  and  some unpleasant
duties,  which  many,  no  doubt,  did  not  expect
when you enlisted, but please remember that it has
been a privilege granted to  us  to be  used for the
purpose of endeavoring, in a small degree, to assist
in putting  these  sick  and  wounded brothers  of
ours back on their feet ready for duty.
  They come to us for  help, literally  torn to frag-
ments by the enemy's engines  of  war, but smiling
and  full of grit,  anxious to get a whack at the
Boche again as soon as their  wounds are healed.
Let us emulate their example in enthusiasm.
  While we have to face our work in a quiet sector,
unspurred  by the roar of artillery and the crash
of bursting shells, and may not receive the D. S.  C,
yet  you have  shown splendid  courage in  calmly
facing an unrelenting foe without flinching, in the
contagious diseases  which beset us,  and those of
us who have thus  so nobly given their lives in line
of duty  will have enduring  monuments erected in
the hearts of the mothers, wives and sweethearts
in the  far-off  Homeland, whose loved  ones  you
have so tenderly cared for "over here," and when
the  last Great Day finally comes, you  will find
written  "up there"  on  the  scroll of God,  "Well
done, thou good and faithful servant."
     "Howe'er  it be, it seems to me,
        'Tis only  noble to be good.
      Kind hearts are more than coronets,
        And simple  faith than Norman blood."
                   Very sincerely,
                            J. B. Eagleson,
                            MAJOR M. C, U. S. A.
      EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM
   SGT.  MAJOR HARRY A. STRUPPLER
  "I  was the last U. S. A.  man to leave  Mesves.
There were forty of us left to close up, and turn
the center over  to the French.   Capt. Benj.  D.
Choate (the  Adjutant) and Capt. Lloyd  (of the
Medical Supply Dept.) were the only officers left.
These officers and men left two days before I did
so my prediction came true, that I would be the
last to leave the center.
  The cemetery was turned over to a French care-
taker, the man who lived next to it.   He is a good
worker and when I left, the cemetery was  the best
looking and cared for in France.
  Decoration  Day each grave  was decorated  with
a flag and I myself placed flowers on the graves of
all the Base Hospital No. 50 personnel, that  were
so dear to us, but had to be left behind.
  When I was turning in the records for the center
at Tours, I was  informed,  unofficially;  that  Base
Hospital No. 50 ranked first of all hospitals in the
A. E. F."
  "WHEN  A NURSE NEEDS  A FRIEND"

  Place—Sunny France—any orthopedic ward.
  Time—The cold gray dawn—6:15 A. M.

  Nurse coming  on duty—with 2  sweaters—red
nose—chilblain  fingers—cap  crooked.   Infected
finger done up in unsightly rag—blows nose every
three minutes.
  Night nurse going off  duty:   "I  nearly died!
The fires are out!  That fine coal is no good!  Do
try to get some other kind.  There's no gauze left.
Do try to leave enough.  Six of the beds are soaked
with Dakins—but there's no linen to change them!
The  patients'  faces  arn't  washed—'cause—the
water's  off again.  Do try to leave enough candles
—there was no electricity  all night!  I think that's
all."
  (Coming back) :  "Oh, yes, 21 and 22 both  have
cooties."
  K.  P. (coming up) :  "We haven't served any
breakfast.  Waited to  see  what you wanted to do
about it.  It's fierce."
  Nurse—"What is  it?"
  K. P.—"I  dunno—come and look."
  Both  nurse and K. P. stare long and hard into  a
couple of G.  I. buckets.
  Voice from ward—"Oh,  nurse, the extension has
pulled off one side of my  leg."
  Another voice—"Mine has slipped, too."
  Chorus of  voices—"So has mine."
  Another voice—"Nurse!  This strap is too tight
round my wrist.   I can't stand it another minute!"
  Another—"Nurse!  I took those weights off last
night—I couldn't sleep—and now my arm's pain-
ing something awful."
  Another—"Oh, nurse—my tubes are out."
  Chorus—"So are mine !"
  Only  convalescent patient coming up—"Nurse,
can you put someone  else on  that  sweeping this
morning—my leg pained me all night."
  Captain Jones  (coming  in)—"Where's that hu-
merus with  half  inch  overlapping—and posterior
fragment displaced laterally.   Is  it in this ward?
And that sub-trochanteric femur with  lateral bow-
ing.   Where's that?"
  Ward Surgeon (coming in)—"Well, I guess  if
you're all ready, we'll begin."
  Voice of Sergeant from front door—"Inspection
9 o'clock from headquarters !" 
SPECIAL CITATIONS ISSUED  AT  CHRISTMAS  DINNER
         Headquarters
American Expeditionary Forces,
            France.
From:   Commanding General, American Expedi-
  tionary  Forces.
To:  Detachment Commander, Base Hospital No.
  50, Mesves Hospital Center.
Subject:  Heroes.

  1. On returning to my desk at Chaumont, after
several  weeks in Paris with kings, queens, states-
men and  our  renowned  president, my attention
was called to a memo from your Detachment  Com-
mander, recommending four  of  your  efficient  or-
ganization be awarded Distinguished Service  Med-
als.  Recognizing that great deeds of heroism and
valor are  not always performed  within  the sound
of roaring guns, screaming shells,  bursting bombs
and  whirring planes, and that there are occasions
where men fearlessly face death  in the shipyards,
in the  mines, in the munition  factories, in  the
Quartermaster Corps, in the Y. M. C. A., and even,
sir, in the Medical  Department.   It is gratifying
to me to learn that  four of your  men have so con-
ducted themselves as to draw  the eyes of the world
from Paris, London and Washington to Mesves-
Bulcy.
  Therefore, permit me, sir, to  authorize you  in
the name of a grateful people, to present the Dis-
tinguished Service  Cross  of  the Hospital  Corps
to the  following four  men:  Sergeant  1st  Class
John Patrick Scott,  Sergeant Walter Thomas Madi-
gan, Private 1st Class Harry Romanoff Shylock
Kronfield, and "Buck"  Private  Barnard  Dennis
Leary O'Connor.
  2.  John  Patrick Scott:  Pugilist and ex-club-
man, was  called to  the defense  of his  country  as
a physical director in U.  S. A. Base Hospital No.
50.  He so won the admiration of his commanding
officer that out of a  personnel of nearly 200 men
he was  entrusted with the weighty responsibilities
of a Corporal.   After arrival at Mesves-Bulcy he
soon won the affections of Ward  E-5.  As a physi-
cal  director of the unit he has saved the health and
reputation of many  of his comrades by guzzling
their Cognac.  It is  said that he even indulges  in
Cognac  baths.  On  Thanksgiving evening, after a
fearful  combat  on the  Champagne Front, lasting
about twenty rounds (of  drinks), he was knocked
unconscious, and on coming to was observed, by a
nurse, sliding out of a window, chivalrously expos-
ing his  nakedness to the raging elements, scantily
clad in a pair of  high gum boots.
  3. Walter Thomas Madigan:  Unselfishly gave
up  his  occupation as an automobile salesman  to
take the management of the motor transportation
department of Fighting Fifty, and in the Sergeant's
December 25, 1918.
own  words on that memorable day at Camp Fre-
mont, "To make the organization one  big happy
family."   With cool  courage our handsome  Irish
hero throws  clothes  and bull over  the Quarter-
master Counter in  the  daytime and more  bull at
night.  Since the arrival of the female  Red Cross
workers he has become  an ardent supporter of the
latter.  He is a leader in the noble game of bridge
and is  often seen holding fair hands in the Isola-
tion Ward.  It is believed that no man came into
the organization  with a bigger drag and got less
than our distinguished  friend and soldier.
  4.  Barnard Dennis Leary O'Connor:  The
dispenser  of  Rexall's infamous drugs and  liquors,
answered the country's  call by bravely offering his
services as an apothecary  in Seattle's Base  Hos-
pital.   After arrival  at Camp Fremont our quick
witted  Irish  comrade was fast to see  that  with
Rosenburg, Folsam and Haynes in  the field, his
chances of becoming  a  General were small, so he
unselfishly offered himself as  an officer in the Light
Artillery,  which  proved too  heavy  for  "Barney."
As a mixer he does well with the ladies and drugs,
but not so with the army horses.  His fighting
farewells at Palo Alto,  Reno, Ogden, Omaha, Chi-
cago, Detroit, Niagara  Falls  and Mesves are  with-
out precedent in history.  No man in the A. E. F.
(outside of Sergeant Byron)  has equaled the drug-
gist  in  returning Nurses to  their  quarters  after
hours.  Our hero can, from  experience, truthfully
recommend "Curran's Mixtures."
  5. Harry Romanoff Shylock Kronfield: As-
sistant Mess  Sergeant  and Traffic Cop, gallantly
stuck to his studies on  Dobie's football  team  until
his brother had enlisted in the Infantry and then
offered his life that men  might live  as a  Buck
Private under the supreme  command  of Lieutenant
Denno.   He  has  fought in  many  battles in the
barracks  and is known to  have risked as high as
fifty centimes on  the roll of the galloping dominos.
With  true devotion  to  his  Superior Officer  and
Mess  Sergeant he has  repeatedly thrown  himself
into the front mess line, thereby saving  them  from
terrific barrages  of  mess kits,  plates,  bowls and
foul language. His qualities  as a leader  are easily
discernable  for he is oft  times mistaken  by the
cripples for Sergeant Byron.  He has a keen ear
for the question "When do we eat?"
85 
               THE EXALTED LAY OF AN  ENLISTED
               MAN IN THE  MEDICAL CORPS OF THE
               UNITED STATES  ARMY,  WHO  WAS
               STATIONED OVER A HUNDRED MILES
               BEHIND  THE FIGHTING.  IN A BASE
               HOSPITAL.

                               1st  inoculation.

I ain't been up in a front line trench and heard how the whizz-bangs sing,
Or seen a matey go straight to—dust,  at the burst of the hateful things.
I've never laid in a rain-soaked field and watched the star shells gleam,
Or taken my chow from a gutted Boche, or drunk from a blood-red stream.
No, I ain't been in on the killin' stuff, been bay'neted,  poisoned or gassed,
               And I used to get sore 'cause I couldn't see more,
                    But, believe me,  that's all in the  past.

                               2nd  inoculation
I rate as regular soldier now, in spite  of the part I've  played,
Though I ain't been bombing from darting plane or heaving the hand grenade.
For this morning I found me a cootie, a-crawling along on my hide;
It tickled me heaps, though the one little louse was all I could find though I tried.
But there's one thing that worries a little and figures a lot in the tale—
                The sex of the coot—did HE lay eggs, the brute!
                    I certainly hope SHE was male.
                                Fini La Guerre.
                                                       Malcolm E. Moran.
ORDERLY
Once more you hear in the lonely night,
                  "Orderly."
The rain is pattering on the roof
                "Oh,  Orderly."
You sit in the office having a chill,
Awaiting the orders you have to fill,
The ward is black, and all is still,
                  "One duck."

You've reached the plot in the story so thrilling,
                  "Orderly."
You hate to leave but appear to be willing,
                "Oh, Orderly."
So up you get and  stand by the door,
And wait for someone to call once more,
When  out of the darkness comes a roar
                  "Bed Pan."

Why does nature move these men?
                   "Orderly."
Five hundred times in one night.
                "Oh, Orderly."
Great  life, this one across the  sea,
Of doctor, nurse, and orderly,
Hark! there's someone calling me
              "Bed Pan and Duck."

                   By Stevens (not  Robt. L.)
86 
        ALL IN  A DAY'S  WORK

  Miss  Wood—How nicely your ward looks !   You
are very  lucky to have such  a ward-master as
Tenant!

  Nurse (jealous)—Yes, Miss Wood.

  Miss  Wood—Don't you think so?

  Jealous Nurse—Yes, Miss Wood.

  Miss  Wood—You don't seem very enthusiastic—
what  is the  matter?   Don't you think  Tenant  is
wonderful ?

  Jealous Nurse—Oh,  yes, indeed, Miss  Wood—
but sometimes I get tired of hearing his praises.

  Miss  Wood  (to  herself)—What a queer  little
thing.

  Two  weeks pass while Tenant is sick off duty.
Nurse works frantically to keep ward  in  same
faultless condition; up before daylight—stays on
late nights—barely takes time to eat—turns a deaf
ear to all  pathetic appeals of "Please fix my leg—
nurse"—and stands over  the front hall  with mop
and broom.

  "Its no use," she mutters at last, "its  no use—it
just looks untenanted."

  Morning after Tenant  returns.

  Miss  Wood—How wonderfully your ward looks
this  morning!   The  front  hall  is immaculate!
Tenant is back, isn't he?  I could see the differ-
ence right away !!!

  Nurse walks  blindly to medicine closet and feels
around feebly on the shelf for a small bottle marked
"Curren's  Cordial".

  Nurse B.-—Oh, Miss  H., you must  see that Ger-
man's leg!  Underneath the  plaster on  both  sides
it is one wriggling, writhing mass of cooties.  What
shall  I do?

  Chorus  of  Nurses—Doctor! what shall we do?

  Dr.—"Chloroform is good for cooties.  Pour it
right  in on them.

  Happy  chorus of nurses, fifteen minutes later—
The doctor said chloroform was good for  bugs.  But
we think the doctor must  have  lied.   The chloro-
form  wasn't good for bugs at all!  The  poor  little
bugs all died!
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              ROSTER of BASE  HOSPITAL  FIFTY

    The Personnel of our Hospital at the time of arrival at the  Hospital Center con-
sisted of twenty-two officers and one hundred and ninety-eight men.

    The following officers, nurses, and corps men were connected with Base Hospital No.
50 during its service in France:

Lieut. Colonel, M. C—Bryan, Ray W., Commanding Officer

Majors, M. C.—Eagleson, James B., Director Professional Work and Chief of Surgical
                                     Service
                Fick, Edward P.,  Chief of 31edical Service
                Allen, H. Eugene, Acting Chief of Surgical Service
                Black, Forrest A., Urological and Dermatological Service
                Hawkins, John A., Receiving and Evacuating Officer
                Cary, N. A., Registrar

Captains, M. C.—Plummer, Copeland,  Chief of  Head Surgery, Detachment Com-
                                     mander and Personnel
                Jones, Everett O., Orthopedic Surgery and Fractures
                Helton, Alfred J., General and Brain Surgery
                Edwards, Charles P., General Surgery
                Wilt, Frank P., Neurologist
                Lyon, Richard H., General Medicine and Cardio-Vascular
                Shinnick, Thomas F., General Medicine
                Hamilton, Robert, General Surgery

First Lieuts, M. C.—Braun, Gustav, General Medicine
                    Garman, Harry F., General Surgery
                    Savitsky, Louis, General Surgery
                    Thompson, Harold B., Chief Roentgenologist
                    Troxler, William E., Assistant Roentgenologist
                    Wilkins, Ellis L., Head Surgery
                    Hulett, Albert G., Laboratory Service
                    Marcy, Guy E., General Surgery
                    Curran, George L., General Medicine
                    Schmidt, Walter W., Laboratory Service
                    Buckner, Hubbard T., Orthopedic Surgery and Fractures
                    Kantner, William C, General Surgery
                    Knott, Howard J., General Surgery
                    Randolph,  Howard C, Orthopedic Surgery and Fractures
                    Mattice, Albert F., Ophthalmic Surgery
                    Gehrke, August E., Orthopedic Surgery
                    Carothers, J. R., General 31edicine
                    Szymanski, John J., Laboratory Service 
Captain, D. C—Lowrie, Walter E., Oral Surgery

First Lieuts, D. C—Stebbins, Arthur K., Dental Surgery
                    Vaughn, Kenneth, Dental Surgery

First Lieuts, S. C—Denno, John, 31 ess Officer
                    McDonald,  Charles  F., Adjutant
                    Van Den Bosch, Thos., 31edical Supply Officer

Second Lieut. Q. M. C.—Lybecker, James A., Quartermaster

Chaplains—Bergen, Hansen, Protestant
            Carroll, William M., Catholic

Captain, A. R. C—Henby, Alexander T>.,Red Cross Officer.
NURSES  AND  WOMEN  ASSISTANTS

Fraser, Belle McKay, R. N.—Chief Nurse
Gillespie, Cora E., R. N.—Acting Chief Nurse
Wood, Evelyn, R. N.—Assistant Chief Nurse and Instructress
Barry, Mayme E., R. N.—Anesthetist
Beattie, Margaret—Laboratory Technician
Dorrance, Ethel—Laboratory Technician
Dickson, Florence E.—Dietitian
Anderson, Agnes
Andrews, Minnie
Beals, Maida Estelle
Beeler, Helen E.
Bloom, Martha M.
Borkman, Edith
Button, Julia A.
Calkins, Minnie M.
Cedergren, Tyra J.
Chandler, Maree Crowell
Clegg, Ruth
Coleman, Linda M.
Cook, Hulda
Cramer, Clara M.
Davis, Mazel
Delaware, Merle A.
Dench,  Florence
Dye, Grace V.
Eilman, Rose
Enger, Alie
Enger, Jennie
Forland, Magdalene J.
Gamble, Leah N.
Giffen, Della C.
Gonnason, Emelie
Gourlay, Hazel A.
Harden, Juanita A.
Herbert, Mary F.
Holmes, Gertrude
Johnson, Eva N.
Johnson, Anna J.
Johnson, Myrtle A.
Johnson, Elizabeth C.
Johnston, Lillian J.
Jones, Lillian E.
King, Cathren M.
Knott, Anna C.
Langer, Theresa
Larson, Agnetta
Lauridsen, Karon
Lee, Anna Belle
Lettrick, Leslie G.
Lighthall, Alma  E.
Long, Anna C.
Lord, Marion
Mason, Edna M.
Merrifield, Ada
Metcalfe, Ruth E.
89 
Moran, Rose McE.
Moran, Bernadine
Morris, Gertrude E.
Murphy, Eleanor
Murphy, Margaret E.
McConaghy, Elizabeth
MacCosham, M. B.
MacMillan, Katherine M.
MacMillan, Lillian
McKay, Mary E.
MacNaughton, Ethel Mae
McMonagle, Grace E.
McRae, Margaret A.
Needles, Amanda
Nelson, Claire L.
Nicholas, Zowitza
O'Brien, Mollie
Osrorne, Olive
O'Keefe, Aimee
Petty, Bess L.
Preston, Dorothy A.
Rasmussen, Matilda S.
Rien, Alice H.
Robb, Celia K.
Robison, Margaret J.
Roche, Ethel
Russell, Claire E.
Russell, Mary E.
Rutz, Emma L.
Sasse, Clara O.
Seaborn, Mabel
Sheedy, May
Simpkins, Vivien M.
Smith, Edith B.
Smith, Hazel G.
St. Cyr, Olive
Stayton, Roxy E.
Thayer, Bertha M.
Thomson, Bernice L.
Thulon, Bertha E.
Tuell, Alma T.
Tuell, Irma
Walsh, Katherine M.
Walker, Alexandria C.
Warner, Josephine E.
Wightman, Rachel A.
Wilkinson, Irene M.
Wooten, Victoria
Yerkes, Maude S.
           HOSPITAL  CORPS

Master Hospital Sergeant—Struppler, Harry A.
sergeants, first class
Brace, John M.
Byron, Tryggvi H.
Cam mack, George B.
Carroll, Joseph Le R.
Cheever, Harridon G.
Farrar,  Victor J.
Foster, Herbert E.
Gerlough, Robert J.
Haynes, John  B.
Hobbs, Frank
Hyde, Clarence F.
Lidston, Stephen J.
Madigan, Walter T.
Rutledge, William I.
Scott, John P.
Slemmons, Wilbert S.
Tilton, William H.
Wheeler, George C.
Bain, Lester
Meagher, Martin C.
Moran, Malcolm E.
sergeants
Norvell, Julius H.
Spear, Benjamin C.
Williams, Herbert
Folsom, Frank H.
Gay, Sam P.
Kronfield, Harry
corporals
Rosenberg, Alexander
Taylor, Frank B.
90 
privates
Allen, Thomas J.
Aries, Walter J.
Auernheimer, Henry C.
Auld, Chan D.
Bailey, August
Balkema, George W.
Barnes, Edward M.
Beaver, Charles
Behm, August F.
Bishop, Roy V.
Bissett, Jr., Clark P.
Blake, Frederick
Bordeaux, Chester R.
Bowers, Ralph J.
Boyle, Frank T.
Brady, Virgil L.
Bremmer, John
Brenner, William C.
Brewer, Walter T.
Brickell, Duncan W.
Brown, Herbert S.
Broavn, Leland P.
Bruce, Allen R.
Burrington, Howard D.
Bur well, Frederick A.
Butler, William S.
Conner, Earl F.
Cooper, Lee S.
Correa, Arthur J.
Dauphin, Aime J.
De Bon, George A.
Dwyer, Ford Francis
Easton, Charles A.
Engle, Ivan F.
Epple, William
Feidler, Leo G.
Fernyhough, Harold S.
Fletcher, Charles N.
Foster, Linn B.
Fredricksen, Christ
Frohmander, John  K.
Gaffner,  Walter B.
Gallagher, Patrick G.
Galligan, Glendon E.
Gallman, Alfred E.
Garred, Max F.
GiLBERTSON, LOUIS S.
Goodenow, Curtis H.
Goodrich, Lee J.
Guie, Heister D.
Hackett, Roland A.
Hagey, Grover A.
Halpern, Morris
Halsan, Leif
Harper, Joseph C.
Hartman, Leroy L.
Hemrich, Andrew L.
Hendricks, Carl H.
Hilton, Jeffery R.
Holmes, Howard S.
Hunter, Stewart H.
Impey, Paul D.
Inkster, Harry
Inman, Ondess L.
Jacobi, Harry T.
James, William M.
Jensen, Max
Jones, Eugene G.
Jones, William E.
Johnson, Cyrus S.
Johnson, Robert A.
Ken yon, Frank A.
King, Kenneth M.
Kinnee, Thomas E.
Knapp, Eugene B.
Kreidel, Harold W.
Krulikoski, Lester
La Barre, Forest L.
Lamoreaux, Paul
Lang, James M. Jr.
Lawson, John F.
Layman, James Denver
Le Bold, Frank D.
Lindley, William R.
Little, Jason L.
LOFVQIST, HiLMER E.
Marlin, Marion
Martin, Morris
Marcus, Isador
McCann, Tomas P.
McCarty, Willis S.
McCormick, Terrance L.
McCready, Irving S.
McLaren, Roy
McMahon, Gordon
McPherson, Gordon S.
Melum, William S.
Michelsen,  William A. W.
Mifflin, Gordon
Miller, Fred W.
Miller, James M.
Miller, Sidney R.
Montague, John Joseph
Mottelson,  Aaron P.
91 
Mullaxe, John David
Mix son, Albert C.
Myers, Donald P.
Nelson, William E.
Xesskk, Edward J.
Xisbet, McLean
O'Connor, Bernard L.
Osborne, Albert
Otness, Lee A.
Ousdahl, Conrad O.
Parker, George B.
Parker, Samuel
Peden, Barton E.
Peer, Curtis L.
Pernu, Urho S.
Peterson, Rolland C.
Pieroth, John P.
Pro van che, Noel
Rask, Emil E.
Rawson, Merril O.
Reid, Deskin
Rice, Lewis E.
Riddell, Chester A.
Rogers, Joseph L.
Ross, George W.
Runchey, Oliver A.
Salle, Anthony J.
Salle, Lewis A.
Sanders, Claude G.
Sandvig, Olaf
Schleicher, Emil L.
SCHROEDER, JOHN
Scott, Walter L.
Segel, Manuel M.
Shapiro, Robert
Sly, Franklin
Smith, Elmer R.
Smith, Glenard D.
Smith, John F.
Stevens, Harold E.
Stevens, Wilbert B.
Stohlton, Henry W.
Stokke, Louis
Sutcliffe, Ralph J.
Tennant, Harold E.
Thomas, William J.
Thompson, Leigh O.
Thompson, Ralph A.
Thoreson, Wallace
Thorp, Paul F.
Traill, Frederick W.
Tremp, Louis A.
Tremper, Edward P.
Unsworth, George W.
Vail, Edward L.
Van de Wetering, John
Wassberg, Clarence E.
Whealdon, Wayne F.
White, Walter E.
White, William B.
Wilbur, George C.
Williams, Lowell E.
Wilton, Aubrey
Wood, Walter A.
Wright, John J.
Zech, Lando W.
92 
Barrack Room, Fort Lawton
On a Hike, Road Fort Lawton
A Stop Somewhere on the Road
The Base Hospital, Special
 Aries, Kenyon, King
Barrack, Fort Lawton
   Ferry at Bencia
Medical Inspection, Fort Lawton
   Departure from Fort Lawton
         Somewhere in Oregon
        Another Stop in Oregon
93 
A Stop in California
Somewhere in Oregon
A Stop Along the Way
The Train Decorated
   Major Eagleson
Guie, Hobbs, Carmack
Somewhere in Oregon
       Decorating the Cars
  Shasta Springs, California
The Base Hospital 50 Special
           Sergeant Hobbs
94 
A Load of Mattresses
Placing Tent Floors
Malcolm Moran at Ease
Rookies Lined Up After Arrival
  Setting Up "Simmons" Beds
Strutting About in New Uniform
Q. M. C, Camp Fremont
         Herbert Foster
  Michelson and Wilson
95 
Tent Floors in Position
The Camp 'Neath the Oaks
Who Is This Man ?
Major Eagleson at Headquarters
     Guie, Bremer, Wilton
Rookies Trying Out Fatigues
  The Camp 'Neath the Oaks
     Johnson's Barber Shop
96 
Curp.i Boys Base 50 nt Drill
ll'atching Ball Game
Charlie Fletcher and Mates
Lined Up at the Q. M. C.
 Il'right and Bremer at P. O.
      Baxter in His Fatigues
Same Group in Another Pose
97 
Base 30 on the March
Four of the Boys
Our Beauty Parlors
  Ofticers Row, Base Hospital 30
  Base so Officers at Volley Ball
 Another View of Headquarters
Another View of Company Street
Johnson's Barber Shop
    After the Big Rain
     Albert C. Munson
98 
William S. Butler
Scrgt. Harris at Work
Malcolm Moran
 King Reading Mason's Handbook
Wards, Base Hospital Camp Fremont
    They Seem to Like to Work
   Base Hospital 50 Wash House
Walter H. Pugsley
   Heister D. Guie
  "Some" Rubbish
99 
Aaron P. Mottleson
Waiting to be Vaccinated
Paul F. Thorp
 i'ictor J. Farrar
George Cammack
          Heister D. Guie
Benjamin Spear "At Rest"
          Edward L. Vail
100 
Franklin Six
   Detachment Base Hospital No. 30 at Retreat
Detachment Base Hospital 30 Standing Inspection
    Detachment Base Hospital No. 30 at Ease
         The Worst of All—Litter Drill
Heister D. Guie
101 
Getting a Load of Hay for Mattresses
A Few of the Rookies
Detachment Base Hospital 30 Lining Up for Drill
 Base Hospital No. 30 Officers, Officers' Quarters
         Pat Does a Few Stunts
General Leith Inspecting Base 30
102 
Hobbs and Stone
Charlie Ochlcr
 Company Street, Base Hospital 30, First Location
   Tents Unfurled—8 to 11 a. m. Alternate Days
Company Street, Base Hospital 30, Second Location
Another View of Company Street, Second Location
Cammack, Hobbs, Nugent
            Ford Dwver
103 
Some of the Honorable Members
Nugent and Bride
  View of Tents Unfurled—William Nelson
George Ross and His Famous Tailor Emporium
                     Willie Stone
Hobbs, Carroll and New Ambulance
104 
Hashing Mess Kits
Base Hospital Scene
The  Old Base 30 Schoolhouse
Base 30 Mess Hall, Camp Fremont
      McCarty and Thorpe
     Washing Mess Kits
     Washing Mess Kits
Cleaning Up After Mess
105 
Doing a Little Police Duty
Foster, Sutcliff, Hemrich
     There's a Long, Long Trail a Winding
Capt. Fick Expounding the Mysteries of the Liver
Sergts. Harris, Nugent, Cammack
               Cyrus L. Johnson
106 
Business is Picking Up
Martin C. Meagher
A Group of Base 30 Officers
Moving Tents to Second Location Across the Road
       What's All This Fuss About, Boysr
               A Full House
   Watching Base 30 Play Ball
One of the Base 30 Ball Teams
107 
Lowering the Flag at Retreat
The Colors Before the Wind
Lyman H. Black
    Officers in a Strenuous Game of Volley Ball
View of Street and Detachment Office, Base Hospital
                      Joseph Carroll
                    Manuel M. Segel
Quartermaster Buildings, Base Hospital
108 
After Gas Mask Drill
Scrgt. Hobbs and Butler
General View of Company Street
View of Headquarters
            Officers After Inspection
II 'hat Are these Boys Doing Anyway.'
       English Soldier with Tear Gun
109 
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Four of a Kind
Trying Out Oone of the New Ambulances
The Never Ending Music Box
   Moving Our Tents
 "Ain't Love Grand?"
Lamoreau and Stevens
110 
Getting a Haircut
Cook Freddie Blake
Major Eagleson
Another Vicve of Unfurled Tents
Runchic Moving for Fifth Time
    Private Malcolm Moran
One of the Ball Teams at Stanford
                      Mrs. Hiatt
                Herbert Williams
111 
Paul Impey
Four Hungry Rookies
Another View of Company Street
Pat and Rose Worked Then
Paul Impey and His Family Ford
    Uonald Myers
    Officers' Tents
 A .Friendly Game
View of First Camp
112 
Defenders Club Rooms
Col. Bryan and Maj. Eagleson
View of Wards at tamp tremont
Field Equipment Spread Out for Inspection
                Paul D. Impey
Reading Room at Defenders Club
     Bunk Ready for Inspection
113 
Packing Up Prior to Our Departure Overseas
Frederick W. Traill
Loading Trucks Before Leaving
Cleaning Up the Morning We Left Camp
                 Kenneth M. King
Loading Beds for Return to Q. M. C.
                    Waiting to..Go
114 
Cleaning Up Camp
Waiting for Train
Marching to Train
Company Street After We Cleaned It
                  Our Million Dollar Fire
Viezv of Company Street Prior to Departure
                               Our Train
115 
A Brief Stop at Niagara Falls
Street at St. Thomas
Taking More Exercise
Exercise at St. Thomas
    Reno, Nevada
Oh, for the Life of a Brakeman!
 "Sorry, But the Line Is Busy"
            Savannah, Illinois
116 
Some of the Officers Getting Supplies
Waiting for the 'Train to Start
Our Dailv Exercise
He Was Sure Glad When We Left
117
,. .    ,.   ,   First Lt. William C.Kantner
Majors Eagleson and Black Have Some Fun
                    Major Black Trying It
                Exercising at Ogden, Utah 
The Cooks Won the li 'ar
A Stop Along the Route
Scene at Elgin, Illinois
Scene at Chicago, Illinois
A Nevada Town
Frederick Blake
At Chicago, III.
     A Stop Along the Route
   The Rapids, Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls, Canadian Side
   Another View of the Falls
118 
/ V.'ti' of North Platte, Nebraska
'three of a Kind
Arriving at Camp Merritt, New Jersey
        Street Scene in North Platte
Going Through a Small Nevada Town
                 Those Cooks Again
119 
Going Down the Hudson
Scene Aboard the Karmala
The Arrival at Liverpool
Karmala in Halifax Harbor
   Aboard the Karmala
   Aboard the Karmala
Our Convoy on Way Over
Departure from New York
 Ships at Anchor, Halifax
On the Docks at Liverpool
120 
All of Our Officers at Mesves, France
View of Convalescent Tents
The Last Journey
Ford F. Dwyer
The Operating Room Gan$
 In the Operating Room
      Group Watching French Plane
             Lt. Kantner's Funeral
                  Steve Gilbertson
Hoover Dedicating Mesves Cemetery
121 
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Major Eagleson
Byron, Carroll, Miller and Onsdahl
Line Up for Food
       View of Patients' Kitchen
   Interior of Nurses' Mess Hall
Patients' Mess Hall and Kitchen
McCarty's Laundry in Operation
122 
William Lindley
Albert Osborne in the Kitchen
in Front of Ward WS
Looking Up W-Street
Deachment Mess Hall
  A Council of War
       11 illis McCarty
How About litis, Mac'
      Old Detail Army
123 
German Prisoners Doing the Goose Shep
Group in Front ofClinic
The Kitchen Force
Convalescent Tents at Base Hospital No. 34
     Lining Up for Chow
Resting on Way to Pouilly
        Scene in Surgery
124 
What Is Cole After?
These Little Boys Saw Paris
German Prisoners Marching
Charge of the Orderly Brigade
A French Lightning Express
       Pink Johnson
              Chinese Laborers
Freddie and His French Beauties
     Some More of Those Cooks
    German Prisoners Departing
125 
Sly and Foster
Say,  Who Passed the Pie I
Edward Tremper
  Aubrey Wilton
French Farm House
                Franklin Sly
  Group in Front of Ward IV-3
Miss Robinson and Lt. Garman
126 
The Mess Hall Christmas Day
John Pat Scott
Interior Men's Barracks, Mesves, France
    Brachc and Hemrich
    One of the Barracks
Jacobi, Spear and DeBon
127 
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Benjamin Spear
Some of the Members of the Fighting Fifty
   Bordeau, Miss Robinson and Tilton
 Group in Front of Detachment Barracks
McLaren, Riddell and Miss Nelson
128 
Loading the Laundry
Jack and His Dump Cart
Thomas P. McCann
Fatigue Gang at Work
       Pat Scott
Some More of the Cooks
Picking Up a Bit of French
  Interior Sheriliser Room
         Andrew Hemrich
Patients Line Up for Chow
129 
Street Scene, Mesves
Rue de la Gare, Mesves
Main Street at Mesves
French Cemetery at Mesves
   Scene on Rue de la Gare
130 
Group in Front of W-3
Force from Ward E-3
Clerical Force, Registrar's Office
Cole Takes a Ride
Paying Last Respects to Private Sam Parker
                     While All the Smiles?
                    One Down, Two to Go
131 
Lamoreau and Stevens
George DeBon
Sergt. Bill Tilton
      Interior of a Fracture Ward
        Fatigue Gang at Work
Headquartres of Mesves Hospital Center
           Patients in Bed
Fernyhough and DeBon
      First Lt. Savitsky
  Our Friend the M. P.
132 
The Main Office Force
Earl Conner in Mud
The Main Kitchen Force
        "More Fun"
Our Christmas Dinner
 Sergt. William Tilton
133 
Trail and Jones
Convalescent Tents in Rear of Wards
Private Vaughn—Then
Some Patients from E-9
               Patients in Front of E-l
                  Sergt. Frank Hobbs
Group of Patients in Front of Red Cross
               Sergt. Walter Madigan
134 
Wards on W. Side
An Orderly Squad
The Steriliser
Taking a Rest on a Hike
          Chinks at Work
Some One Never Read General Orders
The Quartermaster Corps
       Sergt. Slemmons
 Layman All Dressed Up
135 
Some French Mud
E-Street from Detachment Office
Winter Scene on E-Street
            Officers Playing Baseball
E-Street from Quartermaster Building
                   Some More Mud
136 
     Officers Quarters in Winter
     The Headquarters Building
Operating Room and X-Ray Laboratory
 English Tents at Base Hospital No. 34
 View of Convalescent Camp at Buley
137 
Recreation Hall Before Completion
Miss Barry, Jones and Sergt. Hobbs
Officers of "Fighting Fifty"
           Three More Cooks
    View of One of the Wards
Convalescent Patients Leaving
133 
Patients in Bed
Going Back to Their Outfit
German K. P.'s
Interior View of Ward W-3
           Having a Little Fire
             One of the Wards
Patients Lining Up on East Side
      From the Operating Room
139 
Henry Stolton              .
Awarding Distinguished Service C row
One o/ </»<? Wards
Nurses' Quarters
Laboratory
140
                German Prisoners
            A Few of the Patients
        Isolation Wards and Tents
Group of Patients in Front of Ward
          Looking Down East Side 
Chateau Near Camp
Malcolm Moran
View of Camp with Tents in Background
Some of the Cooks
                   Chateau de Momon
            Quartermaster Store House
                    The Water Towers
Central Automobile Repair Headquarters
141 
Lt. Col. Ray W. Bryan, M. C.
A  Group of Officers
Inspecting a New Patient
Maj. Black Getting It Trimmed
  Officers of "Fighting Fifty''
        First Lt. Vaughn
Officers Getting Dolled Up
 Officers Pitching Pennies
142 
Marching Out to Field Inspection
Smith and Sandvig
Pack Inspection
Oliver Runchey
       Sergt. Frank Hobbs
      Patients Getting Paid
         Taking Life Easy
Col. Allen Inspecting Outfit
143 
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Officers Inspecting Unit
From a Painting by Sly
Just After Inspection
Lined Up for Our Last Inspection at Mesves
                   Lining Up for Mess
         The I ncinerator and Operatives
Tremper and Madigan at Field Inspection
144 
General View of La Charite
On the Bridges Over the Loire River
Archway of Old Cathedral
Street in La Charite
Stevens and DeBon
     Old Ramparts
145 
I'ieiv of Nevers from Cathedral
The Ducal Palace at Nevers
Along the Laine River
Gate of Croux Nevers
  Tower of Cathedral
146 
Chateau at Brest
Main Street in Brest
La Charite
Cogne
At Chateau Thierry



        147
     Street in Cogne
Ruins of Old Chateau
  Scene at La Charite 
Sam Parker's Grave
General View of Cemetery
Messer's and Kantner's Graves
Nurses Traveling
Another View of Cemetery
  Charles Fletcher's Grave
       Patients' Mess Hall
        View of Cemetery
148 
Scenes Illustrative of the Receiving and Evacuating
                   of Patients
149 
Unloading Litter Cases
A Load of "Sitters" Arriving
John Pat Scott
            Scene in the Surgery
New Arrivals Getting Some Coffee
      Patients at Receiving Ward
150 
A urses Traveling
Some of Our Men on Sick Report
I 'icics of Hospital Trains
Some of the Boys on Leave
    Mesves, Buley Station
151 
Looking for a Few
In Fracture Ward
Patients Arriving in Camp
Convalescent Patients Leaving
            Patients with Fractures
Patients Arriving at Receiving Ward
     Gathered Around the Old Stove
                    Frank T. Boyle
152 
Unloading Train
Registrar's Headquarters Office Force
Patients Upon Arrival Having Coffee
Views of Hospital Trains
Miss Ruts and Patient
      Malcolm Moran
      Pat Performing
153 
Patients Waiting for Chow
Sergt. John Brace
Convalescents Enjoying the Sunshine
               French Interpreter
   Patients from One of the Wards
Patients Returning to Their Outfits
       Second Lt. James Lybecker
154 
Interior Vieies of Operating Room and Some of the
             Wards, Mesves, France
.155 
Interior Views of Fracture and Medical Wards, and
                Recreation Hall
156 
Stopover Scene on the Road from Mcsves-Bulcy
                  to Brest
157 
African Golf, Our Chief Pastime
Another Stop Somewhere
A Typical French tSation
Unloading at Brest
Al Orborne
Vaiting for a French Train
    French Switch Engine
  Some More African Golf
       Out Train to Brest
158 
Louis S. Gilbertson
A French Engine
A Rest on the March into Brest
 Our Pullmans on Road to Brest
German Coaches Bring Us Home
   Unslinging Packs at Brest
   French Switch Engine
  Interest Never Slackens
Unslinging Packs at Brest
159 
Darwin Was Right
One of the Stops
German Prisoners Being Loaded
German Coaches Used to Bring Us Home
                   Our Train Enroute
                     Arriving at Brest
160 
View of Barracks at Brest
Water Tanks at Brest
A Captured German Sub
Resting on Way to the Boat
The Outer Harbor at Brest
    Sly
The Dirigible
  Washing Up After Breakfast
    Washing Under Difficulties
Getting a View of the Dirigible
     The Main Street at Camp
161 
Port of Embarkation at Brest
Four of the Boys at Brest
German Subs Anchored at Brest
Off for Inspection
162
Four Boys Enjoying Brest
The Hangar the Boys Built
   Lined Up for Chocolate
German Prisoners at Brest 
Boys Working on a Detail
Camp Scene at Brest
German Subs at Brest
Main Street in Camp at Brest
          Embarking for Home
         Guard House at Brest
View of Kitchen Where We Ate
163 
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Resting on the Road to Brest
Off for Some Food
Some of the Boys at Brest
        Gordon McMahon
    Marching to Mess Hall
Resting on the Road to Brest
Another View of Chow Line
164 
II 'aiting to Fall In
Kenneth M. King
Waiting for Order to "Fall In'
  Interior of Barrack at Brest
      Off for Inspection
The Chow Line at Kitchen No. 3
               On the Way to Boat
                   How Dry I Am
Scene at Camp Just Before Depature
165 
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Some of the Boys at Brest
Leaving the Camp at Brest for Home
Lined Up for Final Inspection at Camp
Three of the Boys
Lined Up for the "Y" Chocolate
             Cleaning Up
          Thomas J. Allen
   Marching Down to the Boat
166 
Resting on March to Boat
Rest During March to Boat
Camp Scene at Brest
The Final Inspection Before Leaving Camp
              Don Myers
  Resting on March to Boat
Lined Up for "Y" Chocolate
            Put on a Detail
167 
Robert Gerlough
Scene on the Graf Waldersee
Lewis Salle
Auernheimer and Layman
   The Army Pastime
           Ralph Thompson
Scene on the Graf Waldersee
        Madigan and Tilton
168 
On the Forward Deck
Group of Fifty Men
Aboard the Graf Waldersee
Scenes Aboard the Graf Waldersee on the Voyage
           from Brest to New York
              Aime J. Dauphin
         Halpern
Taking a Sun Bath
 Taking Life Easy
169 
Scenes Aboard The Graf on the Voyage from Brest to New York
On the Forward Deck
Group of Fifty Men
         Halpern
Taking a Sun Bath
 Taking Life Easy
170 
George W. Ross
Jason L. Little
Boat Scene
 Aime J. Dauphin
Some of the Officers
  John F Lawson
  Morris Halpern
Charles A. Easton
   Albert Osborn
171 
Wallace Thoreson
The Graf  Walresee
Thomas P. McCann
On the Forward Deck
     "At Ease"
     Inspection
  Some of the Boys
 Eastman and Thompson
A Bit of Rough Weather
         Isador Marcus
172 
A Group of Fifty Men
Hatch Leading to Base 39 Quarters
A German Dog
Bob Gerlough
General Views on Board the Boat
              Sandvig Washing
173 
A Little Bit of K. P.
Group of Nurses on Way Home
Introducing Miss Liberty
Oh, for the Life of a Sailor
    No, They are Not Sick
       A Few Card Games
       On the Upper Deck
174 
Taking a Sun Bath
Steve Gilbertson
Looking at the Bridge
  Victor J. Farrar
The Forward Deck
Jacobi and Onsdahl
    Entrance to Hatch
 Montague and Brady
Hartman and Madigan
175 
Friend Abe
Abe and Onsdahl
Blake, Gallman and Brown
Looking for the Statue of Liberty
   Great Northern Passes Us
        A German Dog
Boats That Came .  Out to Greet Us
        On the Docks at Hoboken
                     Fred Blake
176 
Views of Barracks
Lined Up for Mess
Bag and Baggage
Some of the Boys
Don Meyers
Another Group of Our Men
              Moving Out
             Merritt Hall
             Moving Dad
177 
Views of Barracks and Men at Camp Merritt
178 
li'aiting for Something to Happen
Off on a Detail
Waiting to Get a Pass
Bordeau, Bremmer and Osborne
      Arriving at Camp Merritt
         A  View Around Camp
179 
Measles Did This
Lined Up for Mess
A Large Group of Men in Front of Barracks
Waiting Around for Something to Happen
       General View of Barracks
  Plan of Our Camp at Camp Fremont
               Some of the Boys
            A Little Amusement
li'aiting for Something to Happen
180 
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           Officers' Club
General I 'iews Around Camp Merritt
181 
Our Train "Homeward Bound"
Stopping for a Few Minutes
li'aiting to Leave
      One of the Stops
   Some of the Officers
One of Our Many Stops
182 
Maj. Eagleson at Portland
Waiting for Something to Start
Don't Kid the Ladies
All in a Day's Work
        Limbering Up a Bit
Another Red Cross Canteen
 Enjoying a Little Sunshine
183 
Col. Allen and Capt. Mattice
Homeward Bound
Enjoying a Little Fresh Air
All Heads Out!
   Our Daily Exercise
A Stop Along the Way
  Waiting on a Siding
        Capt. Mattice
184 

All Aboard
Another One of Our Stops
Our Train
A Red Cross Lunch Room
              Just Waiting
         Getting a Hand-out
Maj. Plummer and Col. Allen
   Lined Up for a Good Feed
185 
Taking Our Setting Up Exercise
Interior of the Kitchen
Lined Up for Food in Oregon
      Onsdahl and De Bon
Somewhere Along the Jl.iv
      Arriving at Portland
186 
Doc Getting Some Eats
Our Train
Pictures Taken on Trip Home
Some of the Red Cross Workers
    Corner Wilton and De Bon
187 
Lined Up for Medical Inspection
Waiting to Fall In
Unloading at Barracks
    Arriving at Camp Lewis
Waiting for Final Inspection
Medical Inspection at Depot 
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B. Wards
C. Nurses' Quarters
D. Officers' Quarters
E. Guard House
F. Receiving Ward
G-H.  Bath Houses
I.  Red Cross
J.  Laboratory and Morgue
K. Operating Pavilion and X-Ray
L. Clinic
M. Patients' Mess
N. Patients' Kitchen
O. Quartermaster
P.  Sterilizer
Q. Isolation Ward
R. Medical Supply
S.  Fire Dept., Barber and Tailor Shop
T. Infirmary
U. Detachment Mess and Barracks
V. Detachment Washroom
S. Fire Dept., Barber and
      Tailor Shop
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