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 On Active Service 
 with Base Hospital 
 
 46 
 
 U. S. A. 
 
 Mar. 20, 1918 
 
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 May 25, 1919 
 
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 () tlie friends of Ease Hospital Xo. M). and to 
 tlie nieinbei's of tlie I^nit, of whose life and 
 work toi^etlier it is a reeord, tills volume is 
 offered in tlie hope that it may gratify those 
 wlio. waiting at home, were witli us in spirit, 
 and may provide all who had a part in the work with a 
 memorial of their serviees, of value and interest in the 
 days to come. 
 
 With this douhle |)ui-p()se in view, the Editors have 
 tried to take a broad view of the task committed to them, 
 and to present a picture as comprehensive as possible, even 
 though faulty in execution. They felt that if it presented 
 only the grave and serious aspects it would not be a faith- 
 ful picture. They thought, too, that the details of the Hos- 
 pital's organization and functioning were best known to 
 those persons who were most directly concerned, and there- 
 fore, they sought to obtain brief reports from each sub- 
 division of the several departments, instead of committing 
 the whole to writers chosen for literary ability. 
 
 Considering that, in this great epoch, of our Nation's 
 life, the spirit which has animated all, from the least to 
 the greatest, in the non-combatant branches of the Service 
 as well as those bearing arms, the home workers as well as 
 those who crossed the sea, was one of giving the best w^e 
 had to the common cause, we feel it appropriate to dedi- 
 cate this record to 
 
 THE SPUilT OF 1917 
 
 1U)AUI) OF EDITORS 
 
 Otis li. Wkiiit. .Mnjor, M. C, Portland, Oregon, 
 ( 'Jitunudii. 
 
 Donald Macomhkii, Cajitain, M. C, Boston, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 AiiTiuii S. RosExiKii), I'"irst F,i<Mit(Miant, M. C, 
 Portland, Oregon. 
 
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Ox Active Sehvk e 
 
 l.IKllKNAM C()I,()NI-,I, UOlil-.Ur C. VF.NNEY 
 
M'lTn Bask Hosimtai, Fohtv-Six 7 
 
 COMMANDING OFFICERS 
 Base Hospital 46 
 
 I.IKITKXAXT C'OI.ONEI, \\ . H. DaVIS, M. C. (NoW Coloiul M . C) 
 
 ("oininaiuliiiu- Ofticcr. Hasc H()si)ital No. l(i. .Marrli '^{^. 1 <) I S 
 to July .SI, H)1S. 
 
 Ma.ioh Charles A. Betts. M. C. (Now Lieutenant Colonel ,M. C.) 
 Conimandini>; Offieer. liast- Hospital No. K), August 1, 1918. 
 to Sei)t(inl)(r I . 1<)1S. 
 
 M \.M)u Thomas M. ,Jov( e, M. C. 
 
 Comnianding OHieer. Base Hos])ital \o. IG. Scpttanber 1. 
 If) 18, to October 1. 1<)18. 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Rohert C. Yenney, ^L C. 
 
 Commanding Offieer, Base Hospital No. Ki. Oetober 1. IfdS 
 until demobilized May 22, 1919. 
 
 \Mien Base Hos])ital Xo. Ki was organized. onl\- one m.-ni was 
 thought of for the direetorslii)), the medical officer who would really 
 be the l<"atlier of the L'nit. In the I''all of 1<)17. nnieh of his time was 
 devoted to the preliuiinary ste))s of organization, to the selection of 
 mn-ses and persoiniel and all the details that constantly developed. 
 
 During mobilization, on our trip <)\er and in our work in the A. K. F.. 
 his associates have always felt that the good work done 1)\- the unit was 
 largely due to his steady hand on the whrel. and his coninion sense 
 in .adjusting difficulties. 
 
 It could properly be said that, without Holurt C. ""I'ennev at the 
 helm. Base Hospital Hi would have had a nuieh more difficult career 
 ami would not ha\<' so full\' canird its oood nauu'. 
 
On Active Service 
 
 IX MEMO HI AM 
 
 MOXCi thf ])rocf.ssioiis wliicli followed the 
 Haa,-dr;i|)ed casket to the graveyard in 
 the wiJlev bi'tweeii the wooded hills and 
 the winding ri\'er wore two whose signiri- 
 canee was esjHcially \ivid to the members 
 of our unit. Although ser\'ing at a distance from the 
 liattle-iine these young ])eo|)le were luvertheless called 
 to make tile su])reme saerifie<' and their lives were as 
 truly offered on the Altar of [liberty as those of the 
 combatants whose gra\es surround theirs. And later 
 came the news of the loss of one who liad been denied 
 the ])ri\ilege of ])erforming that service for which 
 came because se])arated from the unit by illness at the 
 port of debarkation. To Xorene M. Rover. A. N. C. 
 who died September U). 1<)KS; to Corporal Ernest D. 
 Stout. .M. ('.. who died September -^l. I.QIS, and to 
 Private First Class Kenneth Al. Welshons, who died No- 
 vember 9, 1918. we dedicate this page in memory of the 
 lives they lived among us and the offering they made for 
 the cause of our common service. 
 
 RK(K'IESCAXT IX PACE 
 
 NoRENE M. Rover, A. N. C. 
 Died September 17, 1918. 
 
 Corporal Krxest D. Stout 
 Died Septeniher 22, 1018 
 
 Private First Class Kenneth M. Welshons 
 Died November 9, 1918, Allerey. 
 
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^^ I'lll H ASK IIoSlMTAL I'oHTvS I X 11 
 
 OFFICERS 
 Base Hospital 46 
 
 WILLIAM K. I)A\'IS. Li.iitciinnt-C'oloiicL Mcdicnl (■()r])s. U. S. 
 Army, born July 10. INTl. at W'ythcvillf. \'a. Rcsidciu-c. a.s 
 assigned. L'. S. Army. (n-aduat«(I from \'aiidirbilt Univer- 
 sity School of Medic-iiu-. 1S<)<S; from U. S. Army Medical 
 School, 19('L Continuously in the ser\ice of the U. S., 
 throuii'li the \arious grades. .Issii^ncd fa Commnud of Base 
 Hospital K). Camp Lewis. Wash., .March ^21. 1})IS. Relieved 
 of connnand of Base Hospital K), July .S L 1!)1S. and made 
 Connuandiny- (Xiieer. H()si)ital Center. Lanj2,-res. 
 
 THOMAS M. ,K)YCK, M.ajor. M. C.. horn at Knunetshur<.-. la.. Jan- 
 uary '27, 18S.K Connnissioned I'irst Lieutoiant March 8, 
 If)] 2. First assionment October 1.'). IfHT. to Philadelphia 
 School of Neurological Surgery: to Rockefeller Institute, 
 New York. March '2,".. 1<)1S; to V. S. General Hos])ital No. (). 
 Baltimore. Md.. April (), 1918; to Camp Lewis from leave, 
 Aj^ril 17, 1<)18. Oriii'mal Staff, recommended July !•. 1917- 
 Promoted Captain. November '2. 1917: Major. March 1'), 
 191 8. Residence. Portland. Oregon. (Jraduated from Uni- 
 versity of Michigan Medical School. 1910. In command of 
 Base Hospital No. Ki from Se])tember 1. I'd 8 to October 1, 
 I9I8. Chief of Surgical Service. October 1. 1!)IS. to Decem- 
 ber -^f). 1918. l)e])arted for Casual Otticers' Camp. Angers, 
 for return to tlie United States. Deeembcr 29. If) 18. 
 
 ROBERT C. YENNKY. Lit ulmanl-Colont 1. .M. ( .. born Walla Walla. 
 Wash.. March 18. ]8()8. Director of Base Hospital So. K). 
 A. R. C. Residence. Portland. Oregon, (iraduate of Uni- 
 versitv of Pennsylv.ania Medical School, LSf)'2. Connnissioned 
 First Lieutenant, .luly 2L 11)17. Original Staff, i)ronK)tcd 
 .Major. November 1.'!. n»l7. I'irst assignment, April 5. 1918, 
 to Camp Lewis. \\'asliington. Chief of Medical Service, Base 
 Hospital No. 1(). July !). 1 !) 1 8 to October I, 1918. Promoted 
 Lieutenant-Colonrl. September 2L 1918. .Accepted connnis- 
 sion, October 1. 1918. and assumed connnand of Base Hos- 
 pital No. t(). 
 
12 On Active Sf.kvh e 
 
 LAURENCE SELLING, Major, M. R. C. horn March 18. 1882, 
 Portland. Oregon. ()ri^i)ial Stalf, reconnncndt'd July !■. 1^17. 
 RfsideiKT. Portland. Oregon. A. B.. Yale. ]<)()t. (Graduated 
 from Johns Hopkins Medical School, ]iH)H. Commissioned 
 Captain, September 8, I.QIT- First assignment. October 17, 
 1917, School of Neurological Surgery, Pliiladel))hia ; to Ho- 
 boken to rejoin liase Hos))ital No. K). A])ril ,"). I9IS; to 
 Base Hos])ital. Camp Merritt. for t;'m])orary duty, April 
 11. 1918. Promoted Major May. 191i). 
 
 ROBERT L. BENSON, Major. M. R. C.. born May .!(). 1880, at 
 Flint, ALcIiigan. Original Siiiff, reco innended .luly t. If) 17- 
 Residence, Portland. Oregon. B. A.. .\L A.. Michigan. l!)()2-k 
 Graduated from Rush Medical School. IfJlO. Counnissioned 
 First Lieutenant, Aj^ril 20, 1.917. First assignment ^Liy S, 
 
 1917, Vancouver Barracks, \\'asli.. .July (1. 1917; to Portland 
 Oregon, to examine personnel and recruit for Base Hos])ital 
 No. 16; August 27. 1917, to I'ort Riley. Kansas; A])ril 10, 
 
 1918, to Cam]> ALUs. N. Y.; .lune 9. 1918, to Camp Merritt. 
 N. J., to join Base Hospital No. K). Promoted Ca])tain 
 November 2. 1917- Promoted .ALajor, October 11, 1918. 
 Accepted commission. November 1, I9I8. De))arted Decem- 
 ber 29, 191 8, for Casual Officers" Canij), Angers, for return 
 to the United States. 
 
 SPIRO SARGEXTICH. Captain. M. C., born May 1, 1872, at Budua. 
 Dalmatia. Original Stalf, recommended July. If) 17- Resi- 
 dence, Portland, Oregon, (iraduated from University of Cali- 
 fornia, College Pliy. and Surg.. San Francisco. 1902. Com- 
 missioned First Lieutenant. A])ril 17, 1917. First assign- 
 ment, June 2, 1917, as recruiting officer, to Portland, Oregon; 
 June .SO, 1917, with Field Hos])ital, No. :U to Camp Lewis, 
 Wash.; Se))tember IS, 1917. to ^^'ashington. 1). C, Army 
 War College; April 12, 1918, to Camp Merritt. N. J., Bast- 
 Hospital, to await Base Hospital No. If). Promoted Ca])taiii, 
 November .'), 1917- Transferred .hdy 21, lf)18. to ,'5;!lst 
 Field Hospital for duty in Italy. 
 
 OTTO W. KOCH, Major. M. C.. born October 17, 1875), at Austin, 
 Texas. Residence, Ballwin, St. Louis County. "Wo. (iradu- 
 ated from St. Louis College Phy. and Surg.. 1 90 1 . Com- 
 missioned l'"irst Lieutenant. August .">. If) 17- I'irst assign- 
 
\\'iTii Base Hosimtai, Foktv-Six l" 
 
 iiu'iit. Sfi)tciul)cr :>. I}) 17. to ('.•iiu]) Arthur. Tfxas. .Lssiiiiwd 
 Base Hospital Xo. K). C'am|) Lewis. W'asli.. Ai)ril j. 1()1S. 
 Proinotid C'ai)taiii, Decfinber Iti, \i}\~. Acc-tpttd coimuissiou 
 as Major. November '25, IPIH. Transferred to l'r()\ isional 
 Hospital No. 1. for duty. .laiiuary. 1()1!). 
 
 DONALD .\L\('()MHKH. Captain. .\L ('.. born Jainiary ^i(). ISS.'). at 
 Boston. .\Lissaeluisetts. Residence, West Newton. ALassachu- 
 setts. (iraduated from Harvard Medieal Sehool, 1<)()9. Com- 
 mis.sioned as Captain, December (). 11)17. l'"irst assignment. 
 Aug-ust '^S. 1!)17. Cardio Vascular expert. Camp Devens. 
 Aver, .\Liss. Second assignment. December ■;-'(). If) 17. to 
 Base Hospital No. IK). New York City. .Ls.siirnrd Hasc Hos- 
 pital .\(). K). Camp Merritt. N. ,L. .lune (i. 1<)1S. l)ei)arted 
 Januar\- 11. IfHfh for Casual Oliicers' Cam]). Angers, for 
 return to the L'nited States. 
 
 RICHARD B. DILLKHLNT, Major. M. C.. born ,luly 1.). 1SS7, nt 
 Decatur. Illinois. Orioiutil Stalf, reeonnnended .Inly 1})17. 
 Residence, PortlancL Oregon. Ciraduated from Rush Medical 
 College. Chicago, lf)l(). Commissioned l'"irst Lieutenant, July 
 7, L')17. I'irst assignment, August 'i."), 1!)17. to Lort D. A. 
 Russell. Wyo.; .January, l()lcS, to Cam|) I'remont. Cab; Feb- 
 ruarv. 11)18, to School Military ()rtlio|)edics, Los Angele.s, 
 CaL ; April 10. l,<)LS.to Camp Lewis with Base Hospital No. 
 Hi. Promoted Captain. .Lanuary 1, 1<)1S. Transferred De- 
 cember H), 1<)1S, to Base Hosi)ital No. 1 1 !• for duty. 
 Returned to duty with Base Hospital No. Ki. l'"ebruary '2.0. 
 1})1!). Promoted to grade of Major. .M . ('.. I''ebruary 17. 
 i;)l!). Accepted conunission l'"el)riiary -^7. 1 !)!!). 
 
 RALPH .\. LKNTON. .Major. .\L C.. born November :>. ISSO. at 
 Lal'ayette. Oregon. Oriaiiial Stalf, recommended .hdy. li)17. 
 Residence. Portland. Oregon, (iraduat-d from L'nixersity of 
 Oregon. 1 <)().'!, A. B.; Northwestern L'nixcrsity Medical 
 School. 1<)()(). Connnissioned as T'irst Lieutenant. August '■2(), 
 
 1917. I'irst assigmneiit. December 1-, If) 17. l)resident Oregon 
 Examining lioard. M. H. C.. :>2 days" service. To duty April 
 ,"). 1!)1S. Camp Lewis. Wash., with Base Hospital No. M). 
 Promoted Captain. October ,'>, 1917. Transferred July 17. 
 
 1918. for duty at Army Candidates' School. I.angres. Pro- 
 moted to grade of .Major, November 1.1, 1918. 
 
14 On Active Service 
 
 WILLIAM S. KNX)X, .Major. M. C. born February Hi. 1SS;5. at 
 Canajoharie, X. Y. Original Staff, rccoiiinit'iidcd July, 1917. 
 Residence, Portland. Oregon. Graduated from University of 
 Michigan Medical School, l.QOf). Commissioned Captain, No- 
 vember 2, 1917. First assignment. March 7, 1918, Camp 
 Lewis, Base Hospital; to Base Hospital No. td, April 6, 
 1917. Promoted Major, July 11, 1918. Chief of Medical 
 Service, October 1, 1918, to December 29, 1918. Departed 
 December 29, 1918, for Casual Officers' Camp, Angers, for 
 return to United States. 
 
 OTIS B. WIGHT. Major, M. R. C, born May 28, 1877, at Cleve- 
 land. Ohio. Original Staff, recoumiended November, 1917. 
 Residence, Portland, Oregon. Graduated from Stanford L'ni- 
 versity, A. B., 1898; Johns Hopkins Medical, 1902. Com- 
 missioned Captain, December 2. 1917. First assignment. 
 March 20, 1918, Portland, Oregon, to mobilize enlisted men 
 Base Hospital No. I6; April, .), I9I8, to Camp Lewis. Pro- 
 moted Major, October 11, I9I8. Accepted commission. No- 
 vember 2, 191 8. Chief of Medical Service, Base Hospital No. 
 46, December 29, 1918 to January 26, 1919- Ai)pointed 
 Adjutant and Registrar^ January 26, 1919. 
 
 EDWIN W. MORSE, Ceptain, M. R. C. born January 28, 1876, at 
 Portland, Oregon. Original Staff', recommended July 1917. 
 Residence, Portland, Oregon, (xraduated from Jefferson 
 Medical School, Philadelphia. 1!)()S. Commissioned Captain, 
 August 20, 1917. First assignment, April .5, I9I8, Camp 
 Lewis, Wash., with Base Hospital No. 16. Departed for 
 Casual Officers' Camp, Angers, .lanuarv 1.'?, 1.919, for return 
 to United States. 
 
 JOHNSON, JOHN H., Major, M. C, born at Sharon, Miss.. March 
 25, 1866. Residence, Brookhaven, Miss. Graduated from 
 Tulane University, 1888. Commissioned First Lieutenant, 
 April 20, 1917. First assignment. Camp Shelby, Miss., 
 August 20, 1917. Promoted Captain, December 20. I917. 
 Assigned Base Hospital No. 16, Camp Merritt, June 8. I9I8. 
 Promoted Major October 11, 1918. Accepted ecmimission, 
 October 28, 1918. 
 
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 HARRY M. B()U\'V. Captain. M. C. horn Xov.mlxr .i 1 . 
 188"). at Ottawa. Kan. Original Stalf, rt'coninu'nck'd July 
 1917- Ri'sidciicf. I. a Grandf, Oregon. (Iradnatcd from Uni- 
 versity Michiiian 1908. Ph. G., University Oregon. Medieal 
 Dept., 1911. Connnissioned First Lieutenant, July 1, 1917. 
 First assignnient. Oetoher (i. 1917, Fort Og]etlior))e, Ga.; 
 February, 1918. Cani]) Sheridan, Ala.; April, lid 8. Hobo- 
 ken, X. J., to await Base Hospital No. Ki; April. Camp 
 ^lerritt. Base Hospital; June ."), to Base Hospital No. K). 
 Accepted commission as Ca))tain. Xovember 'J(). 1918. 
 
 SAMUEU A. HHVXK. I'irst Lieutenant, M . C.. born November 1. 
 189-2, at Charlotte. X. C. Residence, Cliarlotte. X. C. (iradu- 
 ated from North Carolina Medical College, 191.). Connnis- 
 sioned First Lieutenant. August 12. 1917. First assignment, 
 October 18. 1917. Richmond, Va., School of .Military Roent- 
 genology; November, 1917, Fort Oglethor))e. (la. .l.s.'iii'licd 
 Base Hospital No. Hi, Camp Merritt, X. .L, Ai)ril, 1918. 
 
 GARRETT LEE HYNSON, Captain, ^L ('.. born December 
 '29, 188.S, at Milford, Delaware. Original Siaff, recommended 
 Julv. 1917. Residence, Portland. Oregon. Graduated from 
 .Jefferson Medieal College. Philadelphia. 1911. Commissioned 
 First Lieutenant. September 1.). 1917. First assignment, 
 ^Larch 1. 1918. Chicago, 111., School of Oral Surgiry, Xorth- 
 western L'niversity ; A))ril 1, to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. ; April 
 12, to Cam]) Merritt, Base Hos[)ital, to await liase Hos])ital 
 No. K). I'romoted to grade of Captain. March 7. 1919. Ac- 
 cepted commission. March 8. 1919. 
 
 KARL P. MORAX, First Li.utenant, .\L C.. born October 22. 1888, 
 at Eldora. Iowa. Original Staff, recommended .July. 1917- 
 Residence. Portland. Oregon. Graduated from Baylor Uni- 
 versity. ^L'dieal De])artment. Texas. 191.S. Commissioned 
 First Lieutenant. Se])tember 1. 1917. First assignment. De- 
 cember 1. 1917. Portland. Oregon, with examining board. 
 AL R. C, ."'2 days; Camp Lewis. Wash., with Base Hospital 
 No. !•(). \\)y'\\ ."). 1918. Dei)arted for L'nited States as Class 
 "D" patient Xovember 18. 1918. 
 
 IRVIXG M. LUPTON. Captain, M. C. born March 27. 1890. 
 at Minneapolis. Minn. Original Staff, recommended July, 
 1917. Residence. Spokane. Wash. Graduated from L'niver- 
 
16 On A(tivk Skrvu e 
 
 sity Ongoii, Medical D(j)artiiRiit. 191."). COinmissioned First 
 I>ieutenant, July 18. 1917. First assignment. December 7, 
 1917, San Francisco. Cal., Presidio; January, 1918, Camp 
 Fremont, Cal.; April, 1918, Camp Lewis, Wash., with Base 
 Hospital No. 16. Promoted to grade of Captain, February 17, 
 1919. Accepted commission, March 2. 1919. 
 
 CHARLES E. WEST, Captain, M. C, born October .'?, 1871. 
 at Hannibal, ^lo. Residence, Decatur. Illinois. Graduated 
 from Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, 1898. Commis- 
 sioned First I>ieutenant, August I."). 1917. First assignment. 
 December '-2.S. 1917, Camp Grant. Illinois. Assigned Base 
 Hospital Xo. K). Camp :Merritt. X. .1.. June 3, 1918. Pro- 
 moted to grade of Captain. February 17. 1919. Accepted 
 commission. March .'5, 1919. 
 
 AUSTIN H. WOOD, First Lieutenant. M. C.. born .May 26. 1890, at 
 Willock, Allegheny County, Pa. Residence, Baltimore. Md. 
 Graduated from University of Maryland, .Medical Depart- 
 ment. 1911. Commissioned First Lieutenant. December 1. 
 1917. First assignment. Jaiuiarv l."), 1918, New York City, 
 Post Graduate Hospital; March 1. 1918. Camj) Meade. Md. 
 Assigned Base Hospital No. K), Camp Mcrritt. N. J.. May 
 
 27, 1918, reporting June '). 
 
 EDWARD F. /lEGELMAN. Major. M. ('.. horn July 10. 
 188t, at I>a Crosse, Wis. Original Staf}', recommended July. 
 
 1917. Residence. Portland, Oregon. Graduated from Jefler- 
 sou Medical College, Philadelphia. 1912. Conunissioned First 
 IJeutenant, September la. H)17. I'irst assignment, December 
 1, 1917, Portland. Oregon, as recruiting officer. 2.S days' 
 service; to duty. March II, 1918, Universitv California. 
 San Francisco, surgical course; C .nup Lewis. Wash., to Base 
 HosjMtal No. 16, April 9, 1918. Ranks as of date February 
 lb". 1918. Promoted Captain, July 10. 1918. Accepted com- 
 mission, August 23, 1918 Transferred to P'iVacuation Hospital 
 No. 21, .Jamiary .SI, 1919. Commissioned Major. May 2. 1919. 
 
 ARTHUR S. ROSFXFFLD, First Lieutenant. M. C.. born .lanuary 
 
 28. 188(). at Portland. Oregon. Original Siaff, rt-comniended 
 July. 1917. Residence. Portland. Oregon, (iraduated from 
 Johns Ho))kins University. Medical Department, 1911; from 
 Stanford University, A. B., 1907. Conunissioned First Lieu- 
 tenant, September 17, 1917. First assignment. March 12. 
 
 1918, Fort Riley, Kansas, to Base Hospital; x\]iril (i. to 
 
With 1^\si: Hospital 1"ohtv-Six 17 
 
 Cam]) Mtrritt. X. .1.. Base Hospital, to await Base Hos- 
 pital No. K). 
 
 I.OriS A. MANGAX, Captain. M. ('.. l)orii Ai)ril '28. 1<SS(). 
 at Crystal. \. IX Residfiict'. Outlook, Montana. (Iraduatcd 
 from Xorthwcsttrn University Medical School. ('liica<i;o. 
 1911-. Commissioned I'irst Lieutenant, T'ehruary I. IDIS. 
 First assig-nment. .March 20, 1918, to Fort Oglethorpe, (ia.: 
 Camp Merritt, X. .1. Assigued Base Hospital Xo. 1(), June 1. 
 Promoted to grade of Captain. I-"ebruary 17. 1919. .Vcecpted 
 commission March "2, 1919. 
 
 HUBERT FRAXK PARSONS. Captain. 1). ( .. l)orn l)<ceni- 
 ber 1, ISSO. at Portland, Oregon. Orig'nuil Stiilf. rceo n- 
 mended July 1917. Residence, Portland. Oregon. (Iraduatcd 
 from Xorth Pacific Dental College, 19(>!». Commissioned 
 First Lieutenant, August l,"), 1917. I'"irst assignment. Cam]) 
 Lewis. \\'ash.. April ,■-). 1918. with Base Hospital Xo. M). 
 Promoted Ca])tain dune 7. 1918. Accepted commission. July 
 .SO. 1918. 
 
 .NL\LC0I;M S. black. S.cond Lieutenant. Q. M. C.. horn April 29, 
 189'5, at Brooklyn. Xew York. Residence. Orange. X. J. 
 Graduated from St. Lawrence L'niversity. 19 Hi. Commis- 
 sioned Second Lieutenant. May .'!. 191 S. I'irst assignment. 
 .^L•lv '2. 1918. .l.ssigiK'd as QiKirtcrDXistcr Hiisc Hos/iilal Xo. 
 \^6. Assigned to 91st Dixision for dut\' and (hpnrti-d Oetolur 
 1, 1918. 
 
 CLIXTOX JEXXIXGS GREENE, Chaplain (First l.i.utenant) . 
 American Red Cross, born January 10. lS8t. in .Mexico. 
 Oriii'mal Stdf]', recouunended December, 1917: a Presbyterian 
 minister. Residence and pastorate, Corvallis, Oregon. Gradu- 
 ated from Princeton L'niversity, A. B.. 1908: .McCormick 
 Theological .Seminary. 1911. Commissioned by Red Cross, 
 December l.S, 1.917- First assigmneiit to Base Ilo.spitdl Xo. 
 46, at Portland. Oregon. March '21. 1918; left behind at 
 Cam]) Merritt. X. J.. June 10. 1918. to await overseas orders. 
 
 HARTLEY F. MARS. First Lieutenant. M. C.. born August '2. 1890, 
 at Cottage Grove, Minn. Residence. Chicago. 111. (iradu- 
 atcd from University Illinois. .Medical De])artment. 1917. 
 
18 On Active Service 
 
 Commissioned First Licutcnaiit. Dt-cember 12, 1917. First 
 assignment, June 6, 1918, Assigned Base Hospital K). Camp 
 INIerritt, N. J. Assigned to Evacuation Hospital No. "21, 
 •lanuary :U . 1919. 
 
 FRANK STEIXER, Cai)tain, Sanitary Corps, born Septem- 
 ber 26. 1885, at Chicago, Illinois. Residence, San Francisco, 
 California. Graduated from School of Pharmacy, San Fran- 
 cisco, California, 1911. Commissioned First Lieutenant, 
 April, 1918. First assignment, Base Hospital Xo. K), .Tune 
 T), 1918, as Adjutant. Transferred to Chief Surgeon's Office, 
 Tours, France, January 25, 1919, for duty. 
 
 PRESTON ALBERT WELLS, Second Lieutenant, Q. ,\L C., born 
 January .SO, 1891, at Chicago, Illinois. Residence, Chicago, 
 Illinois. Accepted commission as Second Lieutenant, August 
 \5, 1917. First assignment. Quartermaster Training Bat- 
 talion, Camp Cirant, Illinois. Assigned to Base Hosjiital No. 
 K) as Quartermaster, Sei)tember 21, 1918. 
 
 BENJAMIN W. McKENZIE, First Lieutenant, M. C., born January 
 .'5, 189.S, in Rowan County, North Carolina. Residence, Salis- 
 bury, N. C. Graduated from Jefferson Medical College. 
 Pliilade]})hia, 1916. First assignment, June 5, 1918. Assigned 
 Base Hospital A^o. K), Camp Merritt, N. J. Assigned to 
 Evacuation Hospital No. 21, January .SI. 1919. 
 
 JESSE RUSH PATTON, First Lieutenant, .\I. C., born April 2, 
 1891, at Long Branch, N. J. Residence, Long Branch, N. J. 
 Graduated from University and Bellevue Hospital, Medical 
 School, 1917. Commissioned First Lieutenant, April 1, 1918. 
 First assignment, June 5, 1918, Assigned Base Hospital No. 
 l6, Camp Merritt, N. J. Assigned to Provisional Hospital 
 No. 1, January ,"), 1919. 
 
 RICHARD JOHN WERNER, Second Lieutenant, Sanitary Corps, 
 born December 8, 189.'?. Residence, Los Angeles, California. 
 Graduated from Oregon Agricultural College, June, 1917. 
 Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, October 1, 1918. First 
 assigTUiient, November 23, 1918, as Detachment Commander. 
 Base Hospital No. 16. Subsequently appointed Mess Officer 
 and Medical Su))|)ly Officer. 
 
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 THOMAS B. SCOTT. I'irst I.iriitciiaiit. M. C. l)()rn Octolxr •20, 
 1S})(». at Carroll. Iowa. Rt'sidt-ncc. I^iitti . Montana, (iraclii- 
 atcfi from C'rciiilitoii .Medical Scl'.ool. Omaha. I!)i7. Coin- 
 missioiit'd I'irst LiruttiiaDt. Dcccinl-.tr 'it. I!) 17- I'irst assiyii- 
 inent. Juin' .'!. I!) IS. (amp Mcrritt. N. J.. ./.v.v/'i,'//rr/ to liasc 
 Hospital Xo. 1(). .Vssii>-iicd to K\ .■iciiation Hospital Xo. '21 
 January. !!)!!» 
 
 JOHN T. DAVES. First I.icut.iiant. M. C. lorn .Inly l(j, 1S9.S, at 
 Haskcrs\illc. \'a. Htsidentf. Bask(rs\ illc. \'a. (iraduated 
 from Liiivcrsitv .Maryland, Medical l)ei)artment. 1!)17. Com- 
 missioned I'irst Lieutenant. December l."). ID 17. I'irst assign- 
 ment. .June .">. 1})IS. . I. <i.s loaned liasc Hospital Xo. l(i. Camp 
 Merritt. N. J. Departed for Casual Ottieers' C'am|). ,\nger.s, 
 December 2!). 1!)1S, for return to tlie I'nited States. 
 
 JAMKS H. .JOHNSON. Captain. 1). C. born March 17. LSDl. at 
 Topeka, Kansas. liesidence. Portland. ()ret>'on. (iraduated 
 from North Pacific College. Portland. Oregon, .lune. 15)09. 
 Commissioned I'irst Lieutenant, August .'!. 1917. Promoted to 
 grade of Captain. .luue 7. 19IS. I'irst assignment. First 
 Colorado Infantry. October, 1917. Camp Kearney, C'aliforni;i. 
 Assigned to Base IIosi)ital No. 1(|, June 10, 191 S. 
 
 WILLIAM H. SKKNK. M.'ijor. M. C.. bom March 11. ]S(J7. in 
 Scotland. ()ri<>iiial Staff, reconunended July. 1917. Residence, 
 Portland. Oregon. Ciraduated from Long Island Colb-ge 
 Hospital .Medical School. N. Y.. IKSS. Conunissioned Cap- 
 tain, NovtMuber 2. 1917. I'irst assiginuent, April .">, 191 S, 
 Camp Lewis, ^^'ash.. with Base Hospital No. 1(). Accepted 
 commission as .Major, December 2, 1918. Chief of .Surgical 
 Service. D.'cendur 29. 191 S, to .lanuary 19. li)19. 
 
 JOHN I. HOBISON. .Major. .M. C.. horn .June l.i. 1S7'2. in /ion. Pa. 
 Residence, Scranton, Pa. (iraduated from Jefferson Medical 
 College, .lune 1.'!, 1898. Conunissioned Ca])tain, .luue 1, 1917. 
 Accepted conunission as Major. A))ril 20. 191 S. I'irst assign- 
 ment. Commanding Officer Ambulance Co. No. '2(j. October 
 2(), 1917. .\ssigned to Base Hospital No. K). October 11, 
 1918. Transferred to Provisional Hospital No. I for duty, 
 Januarv (), 1919. 
 
20 On Active Service 
 
 WILLIAM NEELY COLTON, Chaplain (First Lituteuant), Amtri- 
 can Red Cross, born September 18, 1875, in Beatrice. Ne- 
 braska. Residence and pastorate, Irvington-on-Hudson, N. 
 Y. ; a Protestant Episcopal minister. Red Cross appointment. 
 May 5, 1918. Chaplain Military Hospital No. 'i. Jnne 10. 
 1918, Paris. Assigned Base Hospital Xu. KJ. A. P. (). 7'?1, 
 .July 6. 1918. 
 
 CHARLES F. BOULDIN, Captain, Sanitary Corps, born 
 Jannary 10, 1891, at Pueblo, Colorado. Graduated from 
 Lniversity Mechanical Arts. Los Angeles, California. 19L2. 
 Commissioned, June 5, 1918. First assignment. Base Hos- 
 pital No. Ki, June 5. 1918, as Medical Su])ply Ofiicer. Trans- 
 ferred to Provisional Hospital No. 1. .I;inuary 9. 1919. 
 
 CHARLES A. BETTS. Lieutenant Colonel. M. C. born June 7, 187.S, 
 at Saginaw, Michigan. Residence, Seattle, Washington, 
 (xraduated from Rush Medical College, October, 1900. Army 
 Medical School, June, 1908. Assigned to Base Hospital No. 
 1-6, June 10, 1918; joined August 1, 1918. Commanding Offi- 
 cer Base Hospital No. 4(1, August 1 to September 1, 1918. 
 Transferred to Hospital Center, Langres, September '2, 1918. 
 
 DORWIN . L. PALMER, Captain. M. C, born at Carlisle, 
 Warren County, Ohio, October 5, 1889. Original Staff, 
 recommended, July, 1917. Residence. Portland, Oregon. 
 Graduated from University Oregon, Medical Department. 
 1915. Commissioned First Lieutenant, June 5. 1917. First 
 assignment, August 1, 1917, Fort Riley, Kansas; August '28. 
 Camp Lewis, Wash.; School of Military Roentgenology, New 
 York, Cornell L^niversity ^Medical School, December 6; April 
 8, 1918, Hoboken. N. J., awaiting Base Hospital No. l6 ; 
 Ajjril 12, to Camp Merritt, N. J., Camp Surgeon's Office; 
 June 5. to Base Hospital No. Ki. Detached December 19. 
 1918, for duty at Bordeaux. Commissioned Captain, May 
 2, 1919. 
 
 HARRY C. BLAIR, First Lieutenant, M. C. born April L 1891, at 
 Elma, Wash. Original Staff', recommended July, 1917. Resi- 
 dence, Tacoma, Wash. Graduated from L^niversity Oregon 
 Medical Department, 1915. Connnissioned First Lieutenant. 
 .July 1.'^, 1917. First assignment. September 5. 1917, Vancou- 
 
With Bask Hospital Fohtv-Six 21 
 
 vcr Barracks, Wash.; November 18. 1918, (ainj) Lewis, 
 Wash.; April 6, 1918, Base Hospital No. K). Dejjarted De- 
 cember -29, 1918. for Casual Officers' Camp, Angers, for 
 return to United States. 
 
 ARTHUR Ct. KELl>KY. First Lieutenant. M. ('.. l)()ni January ^JO. 
 1888, in Arkansas County, Arkansas. Residence, New York 
 City. Ciraduated from University Tennessee Medical School. 
 191.;. Commissioned First Lieutenant, August 29, 1917. First 
 assignment, September 18, 1917, Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga.; 
 May 1, 1918, Rockefeller Institute, New York; Assigned Base 
 Hospital Xo. 15, June 7, 1918, Camp Merritt. X. J. Trans- 
 ferred to Evacuation Hospital No. 21. January ."1, 1919. 
 
 ARTHUR. C. McCOWN, Captain. M. C. born August 2. 
 1886, at Ireland, Indiana. Original Staff, reconunended July, 
 1917- Residence, Cove, Oregon. Graduated from University 
 Oregon. Medical Dejiartment, 1912. Counnissioned First 
 Lieutenant. August 1. 1917. First assignment, October t, 
 1917. Cam]) Lewis, Wash.; April (i, 1918, Base Hospital No. 
 l(i. Promoted to grade of Captain, Februarv 27. 1919. Ae- 
 ee})ted commission, February 28, 1919. 
 
 THOMPSON COBERTH. First Lieutenant, M. C., born February 
 2.S. 1888. at Portland, Oregon. Original Staff, recommended 
 November. 1917- Residence. The Dalles, Oregon, (iraduated 
 from University Oregon, Medical Dejjartment. 1911. Com- 
 missioned First Lieutenant. December 2, 1917. I'irst assign- 
 ment. ( am)) Lewis. \\'ash.. April !■. 1918. 
 
 J.VCOB PEARL. I'irst Lieutenant. M. ('.. born August 1."). 1889. at 
 Philadelphia. Pa. Residence, ^^'issahiek()n. Pa. (iraduated 
 from University Peinisylvania, Medical Dei)artment. 1912. 
 Commissioned I'irst Lieutenant, March 19. 1918. First 
 assignment. April 29. 1918. Camp Meade. Md. ; ./.v.v/'i; /;<'<■/ 
 Base Hospital Xo. Ki. .lune 6. 1918, to Hoboken and Camp 
 Merritt. Transferred to Base Hospital No. 8. Savenav, for 
 dutv. November 8. 1918. 
 
\\ iTH Bask Hosimtai. I'ohty-Six 23 
 
 NURSES 
 Base Hospital 46 
 
 Ariiott. Klsif. St. \'iiic-(iit s Hospital Diihlin. Irtlaiul 
 
 Ariiott, Ruth, St. ^'ilu•('Ilt'.s Hospital Diihiiii. Ireland 
 
 Brouillard, Jennie. St. Vinctnt's Hospital N'iola. Idaho 
 
 Brunner, Susanna, (i.. St. \'inc'eHt's Hospital Rupert. Idaho 
 
 Colahan, Margaret I,.. St. \'incent's Hospital .Merrill, Oregon 
 
 Cronen, ^larv K.. St. N'ineeiit's Hospital Portl.aiid. Oregon 
 
 Dempsey. Anne Margaret. St. \'incent's Hosjntal Portland. Oregon 
 
 Donaldson. Eleanor. St. X'incent's Hospital Portland. Oregon 
 
 Karhart. June K.. St. \'iiieent's Hospital Medford. Oregon 
 
 Hay. Margaret V.. St. N'ineent's Hospital Garniouth. Scotland 
 
 Heim, Elizabeth. St. \'ineent's Hospital Portland. Oregon 
 
 Hollenbeck, Elsie. St. ^"incent's Hospital ...Battle Cxround. \A'ashington 
 
 Holm, Claudena. St. \'ineent's Hospital Portland. Oregon 
 
 Holt. Bertha. St. \'ineenfs Hospital A\'het\vorth. England 
 
 Hubbard, Sadie. St. \'ineent's Hospital Dundee. Oregon 
 
 Jensen. Mary X.. St. \'ineent's Hos])ital Junction City. Oregon 
 
 Kurath. Philoniena, .St. \'inci'nt's Hospital Portland. Oregon 
 
 .Mayse. Rita E.. St. \'incent's Hospital Ontario. Oregon 
 
 Morrissey. Mary T.. St. Vincent's Hosjiital Cornelius. Oregon 
 
 McTagert. Erances. St. \'incent's Hospital .Mayer. .Minnesota 
 
 Risch. Erances O.. St. N'inciiits Hospital Duf'ur. Oregon 
 
 Rudolph. Bertha. St. \'incent's Hos|)ital Salem. Oregon 
 
 Shields. Ruth R.. St. \'ineent's Hospital Portland. Oregon 
 
 Tweed. Emma, St. \'incent's Hos))ital i'ortland. Oregon 
 
 Tynan, Margaret A., St \^incent"s Hos))ital i'ortlatid. Oregon 
 
 Belt. .Marjorie. (iood Samaritan Hospital .._ Willaiiiiiia. Oregon 
 
 Bristol. I.. Fern, (iood Samaritan Hospital .Portland. Oregon 
 
 Browne. F. Estelle. (iood .Samaritan Hospital ..Portland. Ort gon 
 
 Campbell. Bessie R.. (iood .Samaritan Hos))ital Eanmett. Idaho 
 
 F'aton. E.sther yi.. (iood .Samaritan Hospital Yacolt. ^^'ashingt()n 
 
 Ewing. F'leanor ('.. (iood Samaritan Hospital Portland. Oregon 
 
 I'leming. Flora F.. (iood Samaritan Hospital Twin I'.ills. Idaho 
 
 Freeman. Mary E.. (iood Samaritan Hospital FLugene. Oregon 
 
 (irady, Mabelle F'Jleir. (iood Samaritan Hos))ital .La (iraiule. Oregon 
 Hogadone, Minerva M.. (iood Samaritan Hospital. ..Okonogan. Wash. 
 
 Euthy. Bertha, (iood .Samaritan Hos))ital Salem. Oregon 
 
 Mullin. Ethel. Good .S.amaritan Hospital Portland. Oregon 
 
 MacEiWan. Marjorie, (iood .Samaritan Hosjjital Tacoma. Wash. 
 
24 Ox Active Service 
 
 MacDonald. Donalda, Good Samaritan Hospital Nvssa. Oregon 
 
 McAllister, Margaret J., Good Samaritan Hosjiital... Yamhill, Oregon 
 
 MeClintock. Feme, Good Samaritan Hospital Dufur, Oregon 
 
 McFadden, Julia, Good Samaritan Hosjjital Corvallis, Oregon 
 
 McGuire, Hazel, Good Samaritan Hos])ital Hammond. Oregon 
 
 ^IcKinley, Harriet. Good Samaritan Hospital Vancouver, Wash. 
 
 Oleson, Lillian M., Good Samaritan Hospital Hillsdale, Oregon 
 
 Oleson. Olive, Good Samaritan Hospital Hillsdale, Oregon 
 
 Scovell, Ora Frances, Good Samaritan Hos})ital Xehalem, Oregon 
 
 Slagel, Annie Laurie, Good Samaritan Hospital Shaw, Oregon 
 
 Smith, Edith M.. Good Samaritan Hospital., Portland, Oregon 
 
 Steward, Icy Anne, Good Samaritan Hospital Sheridan, Oregon 
 
 Summers, Louise, Oregon, Good Samaritan Hospital. Prineville, Oregon 
 Tagg, Emily Marguerite, Good Samaritan Hospital. ..Warrenton, Ore. 
 
 Hannum. Martha. .Multnomah County Hos))ital Raymond, Wash. 
 
 Humphrey, Martha. Multnomah County Hospital, Morning Sun, Iowa 
 
 Krebs, Helen 1).. Multnomah County Hospital Portland, Oregon 
 
 Anundson, Nellie, Sellwood General Hospital ..Silverton, Oregon 
 
 Berg, Anna C Sellwood General Hospital .Seattle, Washington 
 
 Betsworth, Gertrude A., The Dalles Hospital... Criterion, Oregon 
 
 Bunnell. L. \'esta. The Dalles Hospital .^^■^ncouver, Washington 
 
 Douthit, Winifred I>., The Dalles Hospital The Dalles, Oregon 
 
 Falmer, Ida K., The Dalles Hospital The Dalles, Oregon 
 
 Galbraith, E. Zetta, The Dalles Hospital Boyd, Oregon 
 
 Kern, Emma B., The Dalles Hospital Ridgefield, Washington 
 
 Stone, Leila O., The Dalles Hospital The Dalles, Oregon 
 
 Willis, Eva E., The Dalles Hospital ...Seattle. Washington 
 
 Leverman, Kathryn, St. Elizabeth's Hosp., Baker, Ore Portland, Ore. 
 
 Blodget, Marie, Salem. Hospital, Salem, Oregon.. Blodget, Oregon 
 
 Williams, Rosa Claire, Salem Hospital, Salem, Ore Salem, Ore. 
 
 Ricketts, Xina C, Mercy Hospital, Eugene, Ore Sweet, Idaho 
 
 Boyle, Rose M., Providence Hos]Mtal. Astoria, Ore... Fernhill, Ore. 
 
 Marks, Nellie C. St. Mary's Hospital, Astoria, Ore.. .Ilwaco. Wash. 
 
 Ebv, Mary E., Minor Private Hos})., Seattle, Wash Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Oliver, Lemo, Seattle Gen. Hosp., Seattle, Wash Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Roberts, Nellie, Spokane Gen. Hosp., Spokane, Wash Forrest, Wash. 
 
 Ross, Anna, Spokane Gen. Hosp.. Spokane, Wash McMinnville, Ore. 
 
 Rover, Norene (Deceased), Sacred Heart Hosp., Spokane. Wash 
 
 - - Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Budd, Helen U., Pacific Hosp., Los Angeles, Cal Portland, Ore. 
 
 Campbell, Miriam, Children's Hospital, San Francisco, Cal 
 
 - - McMinnville. Ore. 
 
With 13 ask Hospital Fohtv-Six 25 
 
 Hulbert, Florence M.. Frtiicli Hospital, San I'rancisco, C'al 
 
 San Diego, Cnl. 
 
 Sc'hncidtr. Anne M.. Prox idt lu-c Hos)).. Oakland, ("al I'ortland. Ore. 
 
 Brchant. Marion. Winnipeg (ien. Hosp.. \A'innipeg. Can.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Kenny, .'. Amelia, Sarina General Hospital, Sarina. Ontario . 
 
 AN'allaeehnrg, Ontario 
 
 Mel-'adden. Jean \'.. Naiiainio Hospital. Nanainio. P. ('.. Canada.... 
 Duncan. B. C. 
 
 Fettro. Ftlul H.. Flkhart (Jen. Hosp.. Flkhart. Ind I.eeshurg. Ind. 
 
 Longwell. Pearl \'.. John Stuart Ryburn Hospital, Ottawa, 111 
 
 Care H. F. Wvlie, \\'allowa. Oregon 
 
 Franklin. Winifred .Mary. St. Jose])h's Mercy Hospital. Clinton. 
 Iowa - Sterling, Illinois 
 
 Scott, Mande L.. Iowa State University Training School. Iowa City, 
 Iowa Marshall. Iowa 
 
 Walsh. Stasia P.. Mercy Hos])., Marshalltown. Iowa. Thoniastown, Ire. 
 
 Hill. Fvelvn. Bishop Clarkson Hospital. Omaha. Xel) Portland. Ore. 
 
 Keiser, Mvrtle Sourwine. City and Count.'* Hospital. Denver. Colo. 
 Portland. Oregon 
 
 Phel])s. Grace. Chief" Xurse, Cincinnati City Hospital, Cincinnati. 
 Ohio Fugene, Oregon 
 
 Morse, Georgia B.. Lakeside Hosp.. Cle\-elaiid. Ohio Portland. Oregon 
 
 Randall. Martha. Cincinnati City Hos])ital. Cincinnati. Ohio 
 
 Portland, Oregon 
 
 Squires. Bertha ('.. Jefferson Park Hospital, Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Kelso, \\'ash. 
 
 Stenholm, Alice F.. Trinity Hosi)ital. Milwaukee. Wisconsin 
 
 Se;itfle. Wash. 
 
 Kingman. Katherine. Xewton Hosp.. Newton. .Mass. Brockton. Mass. 
 
 O'Brien. Agnes I... I'nion Hospital. Lynn. Mass Portland. Ore. 
 
 Domser. Julia Ha\fr. Hospital of (iood Shepherd, Syracuse, New 
 York - Syracuse, New York 
 
 Shultis, Velma Fllen. New York Hospital. New York City. N. Y. 
 Brant ford. Ontario. Canada 
 
 Mavherv. ^^'inifre<l. Salisl)ur\- Tnfirmar.'^ . London. FTigland....Fngland 
 
26 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES 
 
 Davis, Jtiniii- L., Sttnographer — 
 
 Beal's School of Sl-.ortliand. I^ortlaiul. Maine 
 
 Jallaiid, VUln L.. Laboratory Technician, Rccd College, Portland. Ore. 
 Gulling, iM. Ethel, Stenographer -- 
 
 ...La Grande H. S. Business College, La Grande, Oregon 
 
 Holloway, A., Laboratory Technician........ ..- 
 
 .._ Two Years' Training in Hos))ital. Portland, Oregon 
 
 McKeown, LaVina C., Stenographer .Kansas City Business College 
 
 Palmer, Gertrude, Dietitian Santa l^'irtiara State Normal College 
 
^A'lTii H ASK HospiTAr. 1''()I{T^■-SI\• 27 
 
 IJOSTKH OV OHKilXAI. joo DETACHMENT, CAMP LEWIS, 
 
 WASHIXCri'OX. MAY 31. j 918. 
 
 (M'itli Present Hank. I-'ebruary !.'). 1<)U)) 
 
 ATidrt-ws, Lcrny B Pvt. Crouge, Wiley I. Pvt. I c] 
 
 Arinfield, Alfred 8 Cpl. (ireene, Jesse H. Pvt. Id 
 
 Ashley, Willis S Pvt. Icl. Greenwood, Eeo R Pvt. lei 
 
 lialdwin, Decatur Pvt. lei Ciiyer, John C Pvt. lei 
 
 Haldwin, Lyle A Pvt. HaVgrave, Karl I). L'Pvt! lei 
 
 Bashor, Palmer K , Sgt. Harlow, Clifton! U Pvt. lei 
 
 Bauer, Charles \V Pvt. lei Harris, (1arene<- II Sgt. 
 
 Bickford, John W Pvt. lei Hartman, Walter II . Pvt. lol 
 
 Blaekburn, .Vri.old M Pvt. lei Hastings, Henrv W Pvt Icl 
 
 Blaekinann, Ce)rgv H Pvt. Heath, William' \'... . Pvt 
 
 Bloch, Adolph I Sgt. Icl Hendricks, I.ouis E Pvt. Icl 
 
 Bowes, William .V Cpl. Higgason, ,(av R Ck 
 
 Briggs, Roy K Pvt. Id Higginix.tham". Russell O. Ck 
 
 Brlnker, Bert J Pvt. lei Hight, Konald H... Pvt 
 
 Brinker, Roiiert O Pvt. Id Hilhers, Henrv B Pvt Icl 
 
 Brink.'r, Wayne E Pvt. Id House, Arthur E. Sgt Id 
 
 BroinI.erg, Hirsch H Pvt. Id Hudson, Harold B. Cpl 
 
 Brown, Gordon S Sgt. H„j,.hes, Everett E". Sgt 
 
 '^>"1''' -^l^'' I' P^t- 1<^1 Irvine, William M. H s' 
 
 Bueche, Charh- F Pvt. Id ,;„hnson, Elmer L. Sgt 
 
 Camphdl, Anthony J Pvt. Id ,„,jp,,^ ^,,,,.j ^y p^^^ ^^^j 
 
 Onnphdl, Edwin J Pvt. Je! ,^^.,.,,i ^arry K IlZIPvt: Icl 
 
 ■nnphell .Merle G Sgt. Id ,^^.„^,^,„^ ^. ^^ p^.^ j^.j 
 
 Capps \ll,ert M. '^r^l'h Kendall, Kvle W Sgt. 
 
 Caniathau Roj- E Pvt. cl ^ ,,.^,j^,,, ^; p^.^^j 
 
 Childs, John O^ I V . ^ ^ 
 
 Cancy, John A... 1.1 ^^. ^^^^J^^^ ^ p^.^ J^ 
 
 Clemenson, John A. Pvt. Id , ■ , ■■ . ., ,,r r>^ , i 
 
 r^ te J n ij c Knulort, Arthur W Pvt. Id 
 
 Coffey, Jay R H. S. ,. i^ . a- r. ^ i ■ 
 
 ^ ,,. • ' ,,: . T r,.] Knaiij), Earl \ Pvt. Id 
 
 Colhns, ^ nicent J Cpl. ,- I r^, iir t^ j. , . 
 
 ,, ,,• ri Tj vU Kortge. Oscar W Pvt. Id 
 
 ( u( lii)i), John H 1 VI. r 1 1 TT I ^ . 
 
 ,. . ; ' f., . T3,.i. i,.i l.add, Henry .\ Sgt. 
 
 Davidson, Chester Pvt. Icl " T^ i ta n ^ , i 
 
 Davies, Linton I Pvt. -"«>'-';^;^. I^^vton D Pvt. c 
 
 Davis, Charles E Pvt. Id Larson, Charles (, Pvt^lcl 
 
 Divine, Earl 1 Pvt. Id 'f'^'^' «onalfl E Cp . 
 
 Doering, Authonv V Pvt. Id '"^ ^^ ^1"^/^ - -Cpl- 
 
 Doukas, Stavros" D Pvt. Id -ckwood, George Pvt. Id 
 
 Dowler, Claude .M Sgt. Lo<l<wood, Guy Pvt. Id 
 
 Durvea, Chester B Sgt. Id ';">'-*;' I'""';^ '^ ;; Ck 
 
 Edniunds, .Milton R ..Pvt. -M^ekey, Norman G Pvt Icl 
 
 Fddman, Gus I Sgt. ^ ad.son, Gary _ Pvt. Id 
 
 Fenton, William D Sgt. Ma. d,x, Leutdles C Pvt. Id 
 
 Flick, William E Pvt. Icl Madsen, Hans F Pvt. Id 
 
 Fodler, Frank X Pvt. Id -M^-Carty, Claud Sgt. Id 
 
 Forbes, Rui)ert W Pvt. Id MeCldlau, .\ugustus C Pvt. Id 
 
 Ford, Georae W Pvt. Md'lure, Clarence .M Pvt. Id 
 
 l-.)x,'l.e Roy S Pvt. 1el -McEwen, Daniel F Pvt Id 
 
 Francis, Doii J Pvt. Id Mclntyre, George W... Pvt. Id 
 
 Franklin, Claude G Pvt. !<•[ Meredith, John D _Pvt. Id 
 
 I'ranklin, Fred M Pvt. Id Mickdson, l*'re(lerick R Pvt. id 
 
 Frihley, William E Sgt. -Miekdson, Paul W Pvt. Id 
 
 Fritseii, Frederick A Pvt. Icl Milan, John T Pvt. id 
 
 Gagnon, Emil J Pvt. Tel .Miller, Andrew G Pvt. Id 
 
 Giesy, Chester A Pvt. Icl Miller, Clare A Pvt. Id 
 
 Goldsmith, Herbert Sgt. Miller, George W Pvt. Icl 
 
30 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 Mitchell, Roy E , Pvt. Id 
 
 Moffitt, Verden M Pvt. 
 
 Morene, Edwin Pvt. Icl 
 
 Morgan, Helnier L Pvt. Icl 
 
 Morgan, Orvin W Pvt. Icl 
 
 Morgan, Wallie J.. Pvt. 
 
 Morris, Syl O Pvt. Icl 
 
 Morrison, Carol V\\.. Icl 
 
 Mulligan, Lawrence F Pvt. Icl 
 
 Munson, Martin D Pvt. Icl 
 
 Mnrphv, Leo B. Sgt. 
 
 Nelson', Axel C Pvt. Icl 
 
 Xelson, Henrv Pvt. 
 
 Nd^on, Ivan E Pvt. Icl 
 
 Nelson, Oggie T Vyt. Icl 
 
 N»\\man, Meier Sgt. 
 
 Nichols, Clav E Pvt. Icl 
 
 Nichols, John H Pvt. Icl 
 
 ()i» rg. Georg" \V Pvt. Icl 
 
 Oherdorfer, Harold N Pvt. Id 
 
 (»)son, Irvin W Pvt. Id 
 
 Orr, Victor M. W Pvt. Id 
 
 Oshoine, Charles B. Cpl 
 
 Owen, Wiir.an' T Sgt. Id 
 
 Paeth. William J Pvt. id 
 
 lei!, r, Alva K Pvt. UI 
 
 Pelletier, Louie A Pvt. Icl 
 
 Perkins, William H M. H. S. 
 
 Phillips, Svdney T Sgt. 
 
 Price, Stuart H Pvt. Icl 
 
 Hedington, John W Pvt. Id 
 
 Reed, Harrison B Pvt. Id 
 
 Rdd, John R Pvt. Icl 
 
 Richardson, Paul S Cpl. 
 
 Riddle, Matthew C Sgt. 
 
 Rignev, Edwin W Pvt. Icl 
 
 Riordan, Frank J Pvt. Icl 
 
 Robertson, John W Pvt. Id 
 
 Robson, Joseph Pvt. Icl 
 
 Rosenthal, Bert J Sgt. Icl 
 
 Sackrider, Earl H Sgt. 
 
 Samuel, John Sgt. 
 
 Schneider, CliflFord J Sgt. Id 
 
 Scott, Joseph P Pvt. Icl 
 
 Seemann, John i\ Sgt. Id 
 
 Shagren, Alvin C Sgt. Icl 
 
 Slica, Thomas J Pvt. Id 
 
 Shupe, Virgil H H. S. 
 
 Smith, Harold E Pvt. Icl 
 
 Sosey, Paul E Pvt. Id 
 
 Stainulis, William Pvt. Icl 
 
 Stant(m, Russell I Ck. 
 
 Stelsel, Garret Sgt. 
 
 Steinmetz, Carl Pvt. Icl 
 
 Steudler, Henrv Pvt. Icl 
 
 Stinson, Richard B Pvt. Id 
 
 Stout, Ernest D Cpl. 
 
 Switzer, Chester L Sgt. 
 
 Talhert, Ralph V Pvt. Id 
 
 Templeton, Hill W Pvt. Id 
 
 Thomas, Clifford J Cpl. 
 
 Thom]ison, AVilliam R Pvt. Icl 
 
 Thomas, Edric T Pvt. 
 
 Tompkins, Earl W Sgt. 
 
 Tiller, Willis T Pvt. Icl 
 
 Troglia, Jim Ck. 
 
 Cndcrhill, Harold W Pvt. 
 
 Walrath, Arthur M Pvt. Id 
 
 Walsted, Arthur J Pvt. 
 
 Warner, George E Sgt. Id 
 
 Watkins, Rav C Sgt. Icl 
 
 Wdi. Jacob ' Pvt. Id 
 
 Werner, Richard J 2x\A Lt. S. C. 
 
 West, Foster V Pvt. 
 
 Westering, Myrton L Pvt. Id 
 
 Wdshons, Kenneth M Pvt. Id 
 
 White, Fred M Pvt. Icl 
 
 Whitehouse, Bion S Pvt. Icl 
 
 Will)er, John M Pvt. Id 
 
 WilMams, James W Pvt. Id 
 
 Wilson, Homer C Pvt. 
 
 Wilson, Joseph C Pvt. Id 
 
 Wing, Charles I Sgt. 
 
 Wirrick, John Pvt. Icl 
 
 Wirt, Lee A Pvt. Id 
 
 Withers, Charlie G Pvt. Id 
 
 Wittner, Earl L Pvt. Id 
 
 Wolfe, Guy E Pvt. Icl 
 
 Wonner, Carl Sgt. 
 
 Wood, I ,oyd Pvt. Icl 
 
^^ iTii 1^ ASK MosiMi' Ai, l'"()i{T\ -Six ."^l 
 
 MAII.INCi ADDRESS FOR ALL MK.MBKRS 
 KX LISTED PERSONNEL 
 
 Andrew. Leroy B.. Priv.-itt- T'i!! .^L)ll.■^\\k St.. I'ortl;ind, Ore. 
 
 Armfield, Alfred S.. C'orpor.-il Waldorf IIot.L Seattle. Wasli. 
 
 Ashley, Willis S.. Pvt. 1st Class. ...109,) Westover Road. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Baldwin, Lyle A., Private D.'J;) Hawthorne Ave., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Biekford, John W., Pvt. 1st Class R. F. 1). No. 1, Boring, Ore. 
 
 Blaekhurn, Arnold M., Pvt. 1st Class. i:iH6 E. Tavlor St.. Portland. Or. 
 
 Blackmann, George H., Private Milwaukic Ore. 
 
 Bloch, Adol))h L., Sergeant First Class 
 
 Care of Jesse L. Bloeh. .St. Vincent's Hosi)ital, Portland. Ore. 
 
 Bowes, William A.. Cor])()ral .5 1 I Leo Ave.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Briggs. Roy E., Pvt. 1st Class ...1011 E. 28th St. North. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Brinker. Bert J., Pvt. 1st Class Freewater. Ore. 
 
 lirinker. Robert ().. Pvt. 1st Class ...Freewater, Ore. 
 
 lirinker. \\'ayne E.. Pvt. 1st Class Freewater. Ore. 
 
 Bromherg. Hirseh H.. Pvt. 1st Class 6.S9 E. lOth St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Biidd, Alva D., Pvt. 1st Class Newherg, Ore. 
 
 Bueehe, Charles F.. Pvt. 1st Class 198 Stella St.. Elgin. 111. 
 
 Campbell. Anthony J.. Pvt. 1st Class. ...291 N. 18th St., Portland, Ore. 
 Campbell. Edwin ./. Pvt. 1st Class 
 
 . Care of R. M. Campbell. North Philadel])hia. Pa. 
 
 Campbell, .Merle G., Sgt. 1st Class L)2 Vista Ave., Portland.Ore. 
 
 Capps, Albert M., Cor))oral General Delivery. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Carnathan. Roy E.. Pvt. 1st Class .ISO E. .")()th St. N.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Collins. Vineent ,L. Cori)ora] 133 E. .S9tii St. N.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Cudlipp. John IL. Private 6S5 Stanton St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Davidson, Chester. Pvt. 1st Class (i.Sl;; Yile Ave., Chicago, 111. 
 
 Davis, Charles E.. Pvt. 1st Class Grass Valley, Ore. 
 
 Divine, Earl L.. Pvt. 1st Class R. F. D. No. 1. Vancouver. Wash. 
 
 Doering, Anthony F.. Pvt. 1st Class 178 Bryant St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Doukas, Stavros D., Pvt. 1st Class .Box .S88, Gladstone, Ore. 
 
 Duryea, Chester B., Sgt. 1st Class South Bend, Wash. 
 
 Feldman, Gus L., Sergeant o8 Ella St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Fenton. William D.. Sergeant II OE. l6th St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Flick, William E.. Pvt. 1st Class Aurora. Ore. 
 
 Foeller, Frank X., Pvt. 1st Class .J.'M- Johnson St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Forbes. Rupert W.. Pvt. 1st Class 
 
 ,> !■ Waterbury Ave., Richmond Hill, N. Y. 
 
 Ford. George W.. Private ......S()2 E. .S2nd St.. Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Fox. Le Rov S.. Pvt. 1st Class it 8 Franklin Ave.. Bend. Ore. 
 
32 Ox Active Skrvice 
 
 Francis, Don J.. Pvt. Ist Class.. Route No. 1. ISox .V2. Mulino. Ore. 
 
 I*"raiiklin. C'laudt- (i.. Pvt. 1st Class Linville Falls, North Carolina 
 
 Franklin, F. M., Pvt. 1st Class... ...Box 77, Motor Rt. A, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Friblev, William H., Sergeant. Big Rapids, Mich. 
 
 Fritsch. Frederick A., Pvt. 1st Class 630 Second St.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Gagnon, Emil J.. Pvt. 1st Class Box 8 1. North Portland, Ore. 
 
 Giesy, Chester A.. Pvt. 1st Class. ...91 8 Minnesota Ave., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Goldsmith, Herbert, Sergeant 666 Handers St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Gouge, Wiley L.. Pvt. 1st Class.. ..R. F. D. 1, Box 56, Bakersville, N. C. 
 
 Greene. Jesse H.. Pvt. 1st Class. Grouse, Wash. 
 
 Greenwood, Leo R., Pvt. 1st Class Bakersfield, Cal. 
 
 Guyer, John C Pvt. 1st Class 1770 Division St.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Hargrove, Earl D.. Pvt. 1st Class. ...•)08 E. Everett St.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Harlow, Clifford R., Pvt. Isi Class.. ID^ Simpson St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Harris, Clarence H., Sergeant lO.S.S Princess Ave, Victoria, B. C. 
 
 Hartman, Walter H., Pvt. 1st Class Bandon, Ore. 
 
 Hastings, Henry W.. Pvt. 1st Class. ...13 10 E. 32nd St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Heath, William V., Pvt. 1st Class 512 A St. West, Moscow, Idaho 
 
 Hendricks. Louis E. Pvt. 1st Class... .76 W. Port. Blvd. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Higgason, Jay R., Cook The Campbell Hill Hotel, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Higginbotham, Russell O., Cook 221 Dujiont St.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Hight. Ronald G., Private 383 E. Washington St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Hilbers, Henry B.. Pvt. 1st Class .^eGJohnson St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Hudson. Harold B., Corj)oral 6\2 Sprague Ave., Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Hughes, P'vverett E., Sergeant 170 Vista Ave., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Johnson, Elmer L., Sergeant... Milton, Ore. 
 
 .Fulien. Carl W.. Pvt. 1st Class 689 E. Broadway. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Kackley, Harry K.. Pvt. 1st Class 383 Ross St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Kendall, George W.. Pvt. 1st Class... 2()(),) E. First St., Long Beach, Cal. 
 
 Kendall, Kyle ^^ .. Sergeant.. Route No. 2, Freewater, Ore. 
 
 Kimzey, Ralph S. Sergeant.. 5;)23 Wallingford Ave. Seattle, Wash. 
 
 King, Edward L., Pvt. 1st Class Box 321, Susanville, Cal. 
 
 Kortge, Oscar W.. Pvt. 1st Class ..West Salem, 111. 
 
 Ladd, Henry A.. Sergeant Box 1190, Portland. Ore. 
 
 Lamoreaux. Dayton. D.. Pvt. 1st Class.. 
 
 -833 Mississippi Ave., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Larson, Charles G.. Pvt. l.st Class....;) 19 W. Porphyry St., Butte, Mont. 
 
 Lewis, Ronald E.. Corporal Ill C. .St.. McMinnville, Ore. 
 
 Lockwood, George. Pvt. 1st Class ...Box 703, Raymond, Wash. 
 
 Lockwood, Guy. Pvt. 1st Class ...Box 703 Raymond. Wash. 
 
 Mackey, Norman G.. Pvt. 1st Class.. .Mnreola. Ore. 
 
 Mackson. Garv. Pvt. 1st Class 1202 W. Larch St.. Ravmond, Wash. 
 
W iTii Bask Hositial Fuktv-Six .'^.S 
 
 IMaddix. Leutelles C. Pvt. 1st Class. ..2LS 17th St.. Orcfron Cit.v. Ort-. 
 Madsen, H. F., Pvt. 1st Class. 1 l65 Wind.sor St.. Salt Lakt- City. Utah 
 
 McClure, ClartiUf M.. i'vt. 1st Class .S88 Wash. St.. l^)rtlan(^. Ore 
 
 xMcEwen, Daniel F., Pvt. 1st Class 808 Lovcjoy St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Mclntyre, George W.. Pvt. 1st Class Box T) 1, Anibov, Wash. 
 
 Meredith. .John 1).. Pvt. 1st Class....7.S"> Hiilshoro .V\c.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Mickelson, Frederiek R.. Pvt. 1st Class Camas. \\'ash. 
 
 MickeLson, Paul A\'.. Pvt. 1st Class (\anias. Wash. 
 
 Milan, John T., Pvt. ist Class Route 1. Box 1()(). Boring. Ore. 
 
 .Miller. Andrew (;.. Pvt. 1st Class. 77") East Yanihill St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Miller, Clare A.. Pvt. 1st Class .S98 K. ,-)(lt!i St. N.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Miller. George W.. Pvt. 1st Class. ...)7'5 K. Salmon St.. Portl.uid. Ore. 
 
 .Mitchell. Roy K.. Pvt. 1st Class r,el)anon. ()r<-. 
 
 Morene. Edwin. Pvt. 1st Class ...879 Colonial Ave.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Morgan. Helmer I... Pvt. 1st Class College Plaee. Wash. 
 
 Morgan. Orvin W.. Pvt. Ist Class College Plaee. Wash. 
 
 Morris. Syl ().. Pvt. 1st Class Battle Ground. Wash. 
 
 Morrison. Carol. Pvt. 1st Class 26r> E. 8 Ith St. N., Portland, Ore. 
 
 .Mulligan. I,;iwrenee 1'.. P\t. 1st Class 
 
 nil Center St.. Oregon City. Ore. 
 
 .Munson. .Martin I).. Pvt. 1st Class 265 Webster St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 .Mur])hy. l.vo B.. Serg( ant Oreana. Idaho 
 
 Nelson. Axel C .. Pvt. 1st Class Route 2. Box (il. \\()odl)urn. Ore. 
 
 Nelson. Ivan E.. Pvt. Ist Class Route 2. Box () 1. Woodhurn. Ore. 
 
 Xelson, Oggie I.. Pvt. Ist Class 97 E. ()Ist St.. Portland. On. 
 
 Newman. Meier. Sergeant .- C()r\allis. Ore. 
 
 Niehols. Clay E.. Pvt. 1st Class Lehanou. Ore. 
 
 Niehols. ,Iohn II.. Pvt. Ist Class ..Lebanon. Ore. 
 
 Oberg. George W.. Pvt. 1st Class 
 
 Care Champion Aeademy. Eo\tland. Colo. 
 
 Olson. Irvin ^^'.. Pvt. 1st Cl.ass iOOJ o Cla\ St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Osborne, Charles B.. C()r|)()ral .VK) E. .^Oth St. N.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Owen, William T.. Sgt. 1st (lass 
 
 Route .'!. Willamette Moorage. .Milwaukie. Ore. 
 
 Paeth. William ./.. Pvt. 1st Class Naperville. 111. 
 
 Peiler. Alva K.. Pvt. 1st Class 120 Dakota St.. Butte. .Mont. 
 
 Pelletier, Louie A.. Pvt. 1st Class Arlee. Mont. 
 
 Phillips. Sydney T.. Sergeant Madoe. Mont. 
 
 Priee. Stuart H.. Pvt. 1st Class 1 t26 E. Kith St., Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Redington. .lohn \\.. P\t. 1st Class 19 t Clay St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Reed, Harrison B.. Pvt. 1st Class. ...()7.S() ,')9th Ave. SE.. Portlaiul. Ore. 
 Richardson. Paul S.. Corporal Medicine Lodge, Kansas 
 
34 On Active Service 
 
 Riddle, Matthew C\, Sergeant 808 Orchard Ave., Grants Pass, Ore. 
 
 Rigney, Edwin W., Pvt. 1st Class Drawer C, Napa, Cal. 
 
 Riordan, Frank J., Pvt. 1st Class Willard Hotel, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Robson, Joseph, Pvt. 1st Class..... ()88 Sherrett Ave., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Rosenthal^ Bert J., Sgt. 1st Class.... la(i ^^'alsworth Ave., Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Sackrider, Earl H., Sgt. 1st Class I66E. Broadway, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Samuel, John, Sergeant 6 10 Pine St., Trinidad, Colo. 
 
 Schneider, Cliff'ord G., Sgt. 1st Class.., 590 E. Salmon St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Scott, Joseph P., Pvt. 1st Class Chastains, Inc., Lewiston, Idaho 
 
 Seemann, John A., Sgt. 1st Class Hil!) Sujjerior St., Racine, Wis. 
 
 Shagren, Alvin C, Sgt. 1st Class Nahcotta, Wash. 
 
 Shea, Thomas J., Pvt. 1st Class 582 E. 18th St. N., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Shiipe, Virgil H., Hospital Sergeant 
 
 Warren-Shupe Furniture Co., Corvallis, Ore. 
 
 Smith, Harold E., Pvt. 1st Class Raymond, Wash. 
 
 Sosey, Paul E., Pvt. 1st Class Hood River, Ore. 
 
 Stamulis, William, Pvt. 1st Class 1058 Division St., Chehalis, Wash. 
 
 Stclsel, Garret, Sergeant llli Williams Ave., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Steinmetz, Carl, Pvt. 1st Class S29 Earrabee St.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Steudler, Henry, Pvt. 1st Class Box 92, Hillsdale, Ore. 
 
 Stinson, Richard B., Pvt. 1st Class 
 
 301 Title eSj Trust Bhlg., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Switzer, Chester L., Sgt. Care N. P. H. H. Co.. Raymond, Wash. 
 
 Talbcrt, Ralph V., Pvt. 1st Class..... Bickleton, Wash. 
 
 Templeton, Hill W., Pvt. 1st Class Forest Grove, Ore. 
 
 Thomas, Clifford J., Corporal Hotel Mallory, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Thompson, William R., Pvt. 1st Class 
 
 1111 Umpqua Ave., Roseburg, Ore. 
 
 Tiller, Willis T., Pvt. 1st Class Ritzville, W^ash. 
 
 Troglia, Jim, Cook Box 76. Uacherville, Mont. 
 
 Underbill, Harold W., Private Castle Rock, Wash. 
 
 Walrath, Arthur M., Pvt. 1st Class Lebanon, 111. 
 
 Watkins, Ray C, Sgt. 1st Class... Room 20i, City Hall, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Weil, Jacob, Pvt. 1st Class Hillsboro, Ore. 
 
 Weil, Morris D., Pvt. 1st Class .....Hillsboro, Ore. 
 
 Werner, Richard J., 2nd Lieutenant, S. C Esparto, Cal. 
 
 Whitehou.se, Bion S., Pvt. 1st Class. ..R. F. D. No. 2, La Center, Wash. 
 
 Wilber, John M., Pvt. 1st Class... Long Beach, Cal. 
 
 Williams, James W., Pvt. 1st Class 242 E. 44th St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Wilson, Joseph C, Pvt. 1st Class.. ..638 N. Sixth St., Grants Pass, Ore. 
 
 Wing, Charles L., Sergeant Raymond, Wasli. 
 
 Wirrick, John, Pvt. 1st Class Box 54, Dee, Ore. 
 
 Wirt, Lee A., Pvt. 1st Class 375 Locust St., Riverside, Cal. 
 
^^'ITH }i ASF, HoSPITAI, FoHTV-SiX .S.) 
 
 Withers, Charlie G., I'vt. 1st Class Si)ok,inc. Wash. 
 
 Wittner, Earl L., Pvt. 1st Class ...7537 i^th Ave Sc. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Wonner, Carl, Sergeant 1 ;).>() E. Taylor St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Wood. I.oyd. Pvt. 1st Class , :SIill City, Ore. 
 
 MAILIXC; LIST OK ENLISTED PERSONNKL ON 
 DETACHED SERVICE 
 
 H.ildwin. Dteatur. Pvt. 1st Class 265 E. Kith St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Haslior. Elmer R., Sergeant .'588 ^Vashington St.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Bauer, Charles W., Pvt. 1st Class 999 Rodney Ave. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Brown, Gordon S.. Sergeant Care Tlic Joiinuil, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Childs, .John ().. Pvt. Jst Class White Salmon. Wash. 
 
 Claney. John A.. Private 1.S30 Cleveland Ave.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Clemenson, John A., Pvt. 1st Class.. First and Morrison Sts. Portland 
 
 CofFey, Jay R., Hospital Sergeant 365 Kith St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Davies, Linton L., Private.. .7^3 Greenwood Ave.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Dowler, Claude M., Sergeant 13()6 Terry Ave., Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Edmunds, Milton R., Private McMiiniville, Ore. 
 
 House, Arthur F.., Sgt. 1st Cla.ss Flood River. Ore. 
 
 Irvine, William M., 2nd Lt. S. C i07 Capitol St., Salinas. Cal. 
 
 Keeler. William X.. Pvt. 1st Class 779 Glisan St.. Portland. Ore. 
 
 Kindorf. Arthur W.. Pvt. 1st Class .. 
 
 109 Royal Court Apts., Portland. Ore. 
 
 Knapp. Earl ^^. P\t. 1st Class Camas. Wash. 
 
 Linter, Blue J., Cor))oral lofiO Villard Ave.. Portland, Ore. 
 
 Luse, I>ouis .1.. Cook Campbell-Hill Hotel. Portland. Ore. 
 
 MeCarty. Claud. Sgt. 1st Class 8i8 Second St.. Louisville. Ky. 
 
 MeClellan. Augustus ('.. P\'t. 1st Class Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Moffitt, Verdun M., Private 8()() North High St., Salem, Ore. 
 
 Morgan, Wallie J., Private College Place, Washington 
 
 Nelson. Henry. Private Woodburn, Ore., R. F. D. No. 2, Box 6 !• 
 
 Oberdorfer. Harold M.. Pvt. Lst Class... 128 Vista Ave., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Orr, Victor M. W.. Pvt. 1st Class Milton. Ore. 
 
 Perkins. William IL. Master Hospital Sergeant 
 
 Care Jennie Perkins, R. F. D. No. 2, Hillsboro, Ore. 
 
 Reid. John R., Pvt. 1st Class 637 Grand Ave., South Pasadena, Cal. 
 
 Thomas, Edric T., Private Gresham, Ore. 
 
 Tompkins, Earl W., Sergeant.... 12 1.') E. Charleston St., Portland, Ore. 
 
 Walsted, Arthur J., Private R. F. D., Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Warner, George E., Sgt. 1st Class 915 Ninth St., Cheyenne, Wyo. 
 
 West, Fo.ster F., Private 731 E. Taylor St., Portland, Ore. 
 
36 On Active Service 
 
 Wf.sttriiig. Myrton I... Pvt. Ist Cl;i>,.s 
 
 lilt Williams Ave., Portland, Ore. 
 
 White. Fred M., Pvt. Ist Class care The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Wilson, Homer C. Pri\ate La Grande, Ore. 
 
 Wolfe. Guv E., Pvt. 1st Class General Ddiverv, Portland, Ore. 
 
With Fi \sk Hosimtm, Ioht^-Six 37 
 
 ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
 (?/BASE HOSPITAL 46 
 
 by Departments 
 
 AD.ILTANT'S OFFICE 
 
 First I.t. !•". Sti'iner, Sanitary Corps, Adjutant 
 
 Hosji. Sgt. .Ia\ U. Coffey Corporal Paul S. Hioliardsoii 
 
 Hosp. Sgt. V.H. Sliiipe ' Pvt. 1st Class Robert Brinker 
 
 Sgt. Herliert Goldsmitli Pvt. 1st Class Stavros I). Doiikas 
 
 RKCilSTRAR'S OFFICE 
 
 I'irst l,t. I''. Steiiier, S;initary Corjis, Registrar 
 SICK .WD WOrXDED DEPT. STATISTICAL DRPT. 
 
 Sgt. l.st Class Ray C. Watkins Seeoiul Lt. William M. Irvine, San. C. 
 
 Sgt. Garrett Stelsel Sgt. John Samuel 
 
 Pvt. l.st Class William X. Keeler Pvt. 1st Class Myrton I,. Westering 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class George W. Kendall Pvt. 1st Class .Tames W. Williams 
 Pvt. 1st Class Richard B. Stinson 
 Pvt. 1st Class Fred M. White 
 
 RECEIVIXCi WARD 
 
 I-'irst I.t. Artlmr S. Roscnfeld, Receiving Officer 
 
 Sgt. 1st Class Bert J. Rosenthal Pvt. 1st Class Fred M. Franklin 
 
 Corporal Vincent J Collins Pvt. 1st Class I,eo B. Greenwood 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class John .\ Clcmeiisoii Pvt. 1st Class Irvin W. Olson 
 
 MEDICAL DEPART.MEXT 
 
 l.ient. Col. Roi)crt C. 'S'enney. M. C, Chief of Service ,hily !) to Sej)!. ^0, 1918 
 
 Major William S. Knox, .M. C., Chief of Service Oct. 1 to Dec. 29, 1918 
 
 Major Otis B. Wight, Chief of .Service Dec. 29, 1918, to Jan. 19, 1919 
 
 -Major John H. Johnson, M. ('. Cajitain Arthur C. McCown, M. C. 
 
 Major Otto W. Koch, M. C. First Lt. Arthur S. Rosenfeld, M. C. 
 
 Major John I. Rohison, M. C. First Lt. Jesse R. Patton, M. C. 
 
 Major Laurence Selling, M. C, X'^eurologist 
 First Lt. Jacob Pearl, M. C, .\ssistant Xeurologist 
 
 LABORATORY SERVICE 
 
 .Major Robert L. Benson, M. C, Chief 
 I'irst Lt. .\rthur G. Kelley, M. ("., Assistant Ciiief 
 Sgt. Ralph S. Kim/ey Pvt. 1st Class Daniel F. McEwen 
 
38 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 SURGICAL DEPARTMENT 
 
 Major Thomas M. Joyce, M. C, Chief 
 Major William H. Skene, M. C, Assistant Chief 
 
 SURGEONS 
 Major Otis B. Wi^ht, M. C. 
 Major Richard B. Dillehunt, M. C. 
 Capt. Donald Maeomber, M. C. 
 Capt. Edwin W. Morse, M. C. 
 Capt. Edward F. Ziegelman, M. C. 
 First Lt. Harry C. Blair, M. C. 
 First Lt. Thompson Coberth, M. C. 
 First Et. John T. Daves, M. C. 
 Capt. Garrett E. Hynson, M. C. 
 Capt. Irving M. Eupton, M. C. 
 First Et. Benjamin W. McKenzie, M.C. 
 
 Cajit. Eoiiis A. Mangan, M. C. 
 First Et. Hartley F. Mars, M. C. 
 First Et. Karl P. Moran, M. C. 
 First Et. Samuel A. Rhvne, M. C. 
 First Et. Thomas B. Scott, M. C. 
 Eye, Ear, Xose axd Throat 
 Capt. Harrv M. Bouvy, M. C. 
 Capt. Chas. 'e. West, m! C. 
 
 X-Ray 
 First Et. Dorwin E. Palmer, M. C. 
 
 Genito-Urinary 
 First Et. Austin H. Wood, M. C. 
 
 Sgt. Est Class William T. Owen 
 
 Sgt. 1st Class George E. Warner Sgt. 
 
 Sgt. Gordon S. Brown Sgt. 
 
 Sgt. Claude M. Dowler Cpl. 
 
 Sgt. Charles E. Wing Pvt. 
 
 Cpl. Alfred S. Armfield 
 
 Pvt. Est Class Anthony J. Campbell Sgt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Chester A. Giesy Cpl. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class John C. Guyer " Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Eawrence F. Mulligan 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Harrison B. Reed Sgt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Kenneth M. Welshons Pvt. 
 
 Eye Ci.ixic 
 Ca rl Wonner 
 Henry A. Eadd 
 Clifford J. Thomas 
 Lst Class John W. Meredith 
 
 X-Ray 
 William H. Fribley 
 Harold B. Hudson 
 1st Class Clare A. Miller 
 
 Dispensary 
 1st Class John A. Seeman 
 1st Class John J. Francis 
 
 DE XT AL DE P ARTM E N T 
 
 Capt. James H. Johnson, D. C. 
 Capt. Hubert F. Parsons, D. C. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Roy E. Briggs 
 Pvt. 1st Class Edwin Morene 
 
 Major Otis B. 
 
 Sgt. 1st Class Merle G. Campbell 
 Sgt. 1st Class Arthur E. Hou.se 
 Pvt. 1st Class Earl E. Divine 
 P%^. 1st Class Henrv W. Hastings 
 P\i;. 1st Class Hen rv B. Hilbers 
 
 TEXTS 
 
 Wight, M. C. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Harrv K. Kaeklev 
 Pvt. 1st Class George W. Mclntvi 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Alctor M. W. 
 Pvt. 1st Class Eovd Wood 
 
 Orr 
 
With Bask Hospital Fohty-Six 
 
 39 
 
 QL'AHTK KM ASTER 
 
 Second l.t. rrcston A. Wells, Q. .M.C. Sccoiul IJ. .MmIcoIhi S. Black. (^. M.C. 
 
 Path: NTS C'i.othixg 
 Sgt. Clus L. Feldniaii 
 Pvt. 1st Class .Martin D. Munsoii 
 Pvt. 1st Class Ralph V. Talhert 
 Pvt. 1st Class Jacob Weil 
 
 Pl.lMHKKS 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Guv Lockwood 
 Pvt. 1st Class Charley G. Withers 
 
 UkaDUI ARTERS — Q. M. C. 
 
 Sfit. 1st Class Claud McCarty 
 Sgt. 1st Class Clifford J. Scimcidc 
 Sgt. Everett Hughes. 
 Sgt. Leo B. .Murphy 
 Cpl. Krnest I). Stoiit 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class E. J. Campbell 
 J'vt. 1st Class Gary Mackson 
 I'vt. 1st Class Harold Oberdorfer 
 Pvt. 1st Class John Wirrick 
 Pvt. 1st Class [,ee A. Wirt 
 
 Carpextehs 
 Sgt. Svdnev T. Phillips 
 Cpl. Blue J. Llnter 
 i'vt. 1st Class William K. Flick 
 Pvt. 1st Class Fred Mickelson 
 I'vt. 1st Class Helmer Morgan 
 I'vt. 1st Class .\xel C. Xelson 
 Pvt. 1st Class Louie .\. Pelletier 
 Pvt. 1st Class Harold K. Smith 
 
 MEDICAL SUPPLY 
 
 First Lt. Charles F. Bouldin, San. C. 
 
 Sgt. 1st Class Adolph L. Bloch 
 Sgt. Clarence H. Harris 
 Pvt. 1st Class Willis S. Ashley 
 Pvt. 1st Class Rov E. Carnathan 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class William J. Pactli 
 Pvt. 1st Class .Morris Weil 
 Pvt. 1st Class Carl Steinmet/. 
 Pvt. Ivinton I^. Davies 
 
 .MESS 
 
 Second Lt. W'm. C.. Sutton, Sa 
 Master Hospital Sgt. 
 
 Sgt. 1st Class Chester B. Duryea Pvt 
 
 Sgt. Elmer R. Bashor I'vt 
 
 Sgt. Earl X. Sackrider Pvt 
 
 Sgt. Chester L. Switzer Pvt, 
 
 Cpl. Albert M. Cai)j)s Pvt. 
 
 Cook Jay R. Higgason I'vt, 
 
 (\)ok Russell O. Higginbotliatn P\t, 
 
 Cook Jim Troglia Pvt 
 
 Cook Louis J. Luze Pvt 
 
 look Russell L. Stanton Pvt, 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Bert Brinker I'vt 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Wavne Brinker P\-t, 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Charles E. Davis I'vt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Claude G. Franklin Pvt 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Emil J. Gagnon I'vt 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Wilev L. (iouge Pvt 
 
 nitary Corps, Mess Officer 
 Wm. H. Perkins 
 
 . Ist Class Le Roy B. Hendricks 
 
 . 1st Class Edward I,. King. 
 
 . Ist Cla.ss Arthur W. Kindorf 
 
 , 1st Class Oscar W. Kortge 
 
 . 1st Class Dayton D. Lanmreaux 
 
 , 1st Class George Lockwood 
 
 , 1st Class Clarence M. McClure 
 
 . Ist Class John T. Milan 
 
 . 1st Class .Andrew G. Miller 
 
 . 1st Class George Miller 
 
 . Ist Class Stuart H. Price 
 
 . 1st Class Edwin W. Rigney 
 
 . 1st Class Joseph R(»bson 
 
 . 1st Class William Stamilus 
 
 . 1st Class Will Stamulis 
 
 . 1st Class Bion S. Whitehou.se 
 
40 
 
 On Active Skrvic e 
 
 I) K T AC H M E N T C) F F I C E 
 
 Second Lt. Hicliart 
 Sgt. William D. Feiitoii 
 Cpl. William A. Bowes 
 Pvt. Ist Class Hill W. 'reiii]>letou 
 
 Post Ofiice 
 Pvt. 1st Class Deeatur Balclvvin 
 Pvt. 1st Class Ivirl \'. Kna])]) 
 
 (irAiii) 
 Sgt. Meier Newman 
 Pvt. 1st Class Cliarles \V. Uauer 
 
 J. Werntr, Sanitary Corps, Detachment Officer 
 Pvt. 1st Class Jesse X. Greene 
 Pvt. 1st Class Carol Morrison 
 
 Saxit.\tiox 
 Sgt. 1st Class Alvin S. Shagren 
 Pvt. 1st Class Earl L. Wittner 
 Pvt. John H. Cudlipp 
 
 Assistants to Ciiaim.ains 
 Pvt. 1st Class Hans F. Madsen 
 Pvt. 1st Class Frank J. Riordan 
 
 WARD MASTERS 
 
 In CiiAiu.i; oi Wakos Pvt. 
 
 Sgt. Elmer L. Johnson Pvt. 
 
 Sgt. Kyle W. Kendall Pvt. 
 
 Sgt. Earl W. 'l\)m])kins Pvt. 
 
 Cpl. Charles B. Oshorne Pvt. 
 
 Cpl. Ronald E. Lewis Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Arnold M. Blacklnmi Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1. St Class Hi rsh H. Br(mil)erg Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Alva D. Budd Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Chester Davidson Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Rupert W. Forbes Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class LeRov S. Fox Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Frederick H. Fritsch Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Earl D. Hargrove Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Clifford R. Harlow Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Carl W. Julian Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Charles G. Lar-son Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Norman G. Mackev Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. l.st Class Leiitelles C. Maddix Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Augustus C. McClellan Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Paul Mickelson Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Rov E. Mitchell Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Orvin W. Morgan Pvt. 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Svl O. Morris Pvt. 
 
 1st Class Ivan E. Nelson 
 1st Class Oggie Nelson 
 1st Class Clay Nichols 
 1st Class John H. Nichols 
 1st Class George W. Oberg 
 1st Class Alva K. Peiler 
 1st Class John R. Reid 
 1st Class John W. Robertson 
 1st Class Joseph P. Scott 
 1st Class Thomas J. Shea 
 1st Class Paul E. Sosey 
 1st Class William T. Tiller 
 1st Class Arthur M. Walrath 
 1st Class John M. Wilbur 
 1st Class Joseph C. Wilson 
 LeRo\ B. Andrews 
 Lyle A. Baldwin 
 George H. Blackmail 
 Milton R. Edmunds 
 CJeorge W. Ford 
 William V. Heath 
 Ronald G. Hight 
 Harold W. Cnderhill 
 Homer C. Wilson 
 
 OFFICERS' ORDERLIES 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Frank X. Focller 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class John W. Redington 
 
 HEADQL ARTERS DETACHMENT. A. V. O. NO. 7.n 
 
 .MoTOU 'rilANSI'OKTATlON SkKVICI: 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class Guy E. Wolfe 
 Pvt. John A. Clancy 
 Pvt. 1st Class Anthony 1"\ Df)ering 
 Pvt. AVrden Moffit 
 
 1 .AHOKA'lOllV 
 
 Sgt. .Matthew C. Riddle 
 
 H|:a1)«( AIITF.HS HOSIMTAI. CkN'TKR 
 
 Pvt. 1st Class John W. Bickford 
 Pvt. 1st Class Charles F. Bueche 
 Pvt. 1st Class John O. Childs 
 Pvt. Foster F. West 
 
 Pvt. Wallie Morgan 
 Pvt. Ilenrv Nelson 
 
 TRAN.SFERRED EX ROUTE 
 
 Pvt. Fdric '1'. Thomas 
 Pvt. Arthur J Walsted 
 
With 15 ask Hospital Fokty-Six U 
 
 XOTKS OF THF. HISrOHV OF HASH HOSIM'I'AI, MMHFH 
 
 FORTY-SIX, UXrrFI) STATES ARMY 
 
 PRELIM I N A H Y OIUiAX IZAT I( )N 
 
 FOLLOW I X(t till- tx.iinplc ot other niidical si-liools. the L iiiversity 
 of ()rf<>()ii off'trt'd on MaX '2 L 1917. to do its })art toward furnish- 
 ing the jx-rsonncl of a base hospital throui^li the Anurican Red Cross. 
 This offer was eontained in a htter of th.at date from Dr. K. A. J. 
 Mackenzie, Dean of the Medieal School in Portland, to Colonel Jeffer- 
 son R. Kean, M. ('.. Director of .Military Relief in Washington. 
 Colonel Kean re))lied hy wire May .SI, 1917, refjuestiiif:; that a Director, 
 .\ssistant Director and Chief Xurse he appointed at once. 
 
 Dt. Mackenzie liad in the nieantinie left for the East, after appoint- 
 ing a connnittee to continue this work, as follows: Dr. R. B. Dillehunt, 
 assistant dean of the medical school, chairman; Dr. .lames F. Bell, Dr. 
 Edmond .1. I.ahbe, Dr. Tlios. M. .Joyce, Dr. Paul Rockey and Dr. 
 Ralph Fenton. An adetpiate staff was selected by this committee from 
 a list of sixty physicians ,ind surgeons, either teachers in or graduates 
 of the medical school, at that time eligible for service. Some of these 
 men already held Reser\c Corps commissions or were a|)|)licants. 
 
 A stated meeting of the I'aculty of the Medical School was held 
 .June ^O. 1917. Dr. Dillehunt presiding, and on this occasion the fol- 
 lowing ofiicers were selected by secret ballot: 
 
 Director. Dr. Robert C. Yenne.'^ ; Assistant Director, Dr. Richard B. 
 Dillehunt; Chief Xurse, Miss Orace PlieljJs ; Chief of Surgical Service, 
 Dr. Thos. M. .loyce; Chief of Medical Service. Dr. Wm. S. Knox. 
 
 Other st.-iff members were named as follows: Dr. E. W. Morse, Dr. 
 W. H. Skene. Dr. Herbert S. Xichols, Dr. Paul Rockey, Dr. Ralph A. 
 Fenton, Dr. Laurence Selling, Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld. Dr. Robert T,. 
 Benson, Dr. F,. F. Ziegelman, Dr. ,1. Hnrvey .lohnson. Dr. Irving 
 Lupton (Spokane); Dr. A. C. McCown (Cove); Dr. Harry L. Bouvy 
 (La Grande); Dr. H. M. Steelhannner (Silverton). 
 
42 On Active Service 
 
 OFFICIAL f:xrollmext of personnel 
 
 DR. R. L. BENSON liaving been commissioned as First Lientenant, 
 was a])])ointed Recruiting Officer, and proceeded to examine and 
 recommend all officers for commissions ; this work was done in the 
 office of the Director, 608 JNIedical Bldg., Portland. Oregon, and was 
 completed and reported in under date of July L 1917. Enlistment of 
 corps men was carried on by Lieutenant Benson and Privates Coffey, 
 Campbell and Rosenthal at the Medical School, and was completed by 
 July 28, 1917- Enrollment of Red Cross nurses was carried on by 
 Miss Grace Phelps, Chief Nurse, from her offices in the headquarters 
 of the Portland Chapter, American Red Cross, Corbett Building, and 
 was completed by the same date, on which certification of complete 
 personnel was sent in to the Red Cross in Washington. This constituted 
 a record for the L-nited States (three weeks for completing enroll- 
 ment), and was extensivel.'^' couunented on by the Associated Press. 
 
 FINANCING THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT 
 
 BY authority of Mr. John L. Clymer, Red Cross Director for the 
 Western Division, of San FVancisco, Dr. Mackenzie, as Dean 
 of the Medical School, was permitted to ))ro})osc the needs of the Base 
 Hospital as a worthy object for the use of funds from the State of 
 Oregon and esj^ecially from the mother chapter of Portland ; and Mr. 
 Clymer wrote an urgent appeal to all the chapters of the State for 
 their support of this work. 
 
 LTpon the submission of the need for -t K),()()() to the directors of the 
 Portland chapter at a stated meeting early in August, the sum of $20,- 
 000 was at once set aside, contingent upon the obtaining of a like sum 
 from the other chapters of the State. The work of supervising these 
 subscriptions was turned over to Dr. Fenton, a Red Cross director and 
 a member of the Hospital Staff, and was carried on through the office 
 of Mr. H. I>. Corbett, finance director of the Red Cross for Oregon, 
 through the extension department of the L^niversity, and by private 
 correspondence. LIpon receipt of the first appeal. Hood River chapter 
 wired -foOO, and in the next mail LTmatilla county (Pendleton) sent in 
 a pledge of $8()()() in completed supplies. Bend and Burns were other 
 large and j^rompt contributors, and some of the smallest chapters in 
 the State also sent in checks at once. The basis used was that of one- 
 fifth cash reserve, as in the case of Portland. Pledges totalling $34,000 
 had come in by the early part of September, and Mr. C. F. Berg was 
 appointed from Washington as purchasing agent, and funds were 
 turned over to him. 
 
^^ITH Bask Hosimtal Foktv-Six 43 
 
 To tlu- consttrnatioii of tlic start", liowever, a notirication was sent on 
 about tliis time tliat from -toO.OOO to -t^iO.OOO would l)e needed, instead 
 of $iO,()()() orijrinally requested !)> the Red Cross autliorities. As certain 
 parts of the State had failed to contribute, it was not thought th;it tiie 
 Red Cross would take care of the added l)ur(h-n. When this delay in 
 obtaining the original sum fixed had been ex))laiiied to the Washing- 
 ton Red Cross, a letter was received stating that one of the great 
 fraternal orders was pre))aring to equip another base hospital, and 
 that perhaps similar help might be extended to tlie Oregon unit. 
 
 About the same time the attention of Hon. Cieorge R. Chamberlain, 
 senior Senator from Oregon, was directed to the finaiu-ial difficulties 
 of the unit. As Chairman of the Military Att'airs Committee of the 
 Senate, Mr. Chamberlain was familiar with the needs of the service, 
 and he was also familiar with the high standing and (lualifications of 
 the men composing the start'. .Mr. Chamberlain was at one time Exalted 
 Ruler of the Portland Lodge No. I t'2. Benevolent and Protective Order 
 of Elks, and had been of the utmost service to the War Relief Com- 
 niittee of that order in })lanning the wise use of their funds. 
 
 September It, 1917. the Senator telegraphed to President Campbell 
 of the University of Oregon, stating that the Elks' War Relief Com- 
 mittee would ])robably ap])r()})riate $,5(),0()() or more, if needed, for the 
 equipment of the Oregon unit. This munificent benefaction was at once 
 accepted by President Campbell and Director Yenney, and was for- 
 mally recorded by unanimous vote of the War Relief Committee early 
 in OctolxM*. The conditions of the gift were forwarded by Governor 
 .Fohn K. Tener, president, and Mr. .1. T. Fanning, secretary of the 
 Committee, as follows: that the funds subscribed b.v the Red Cross of 
 Oregon be returned at once ; that all purchases be made and audited 
 through the Committee, in New York; and that the Base Hospital be 
 known as the University of Oregon and Benevolent and Protective 
 Order of Elks Base Hospital Number 46, prior to its mobilization. 
 
 October l-^i. lf)17, Mr. Fred Harper, Grand Exalted Ruler of the 
 B. P. O. E.. aeeom])anied by other Grand Lodge officers, arrived in 
 Portland .ind met a committee headed by Hon. James Withycombe, 
 Governor of Oregon, who acce])ted the splendid gift of the order on 
 behalf of the University and the people of the State. 
 
 .Mr. Berg turned over all accounts and equi])ment lists, which were 
 forwarded to Washington and used in making up the standard base 
 hospital overseas list which later bicame official. As the Portland Red 
 Cross desired some interest in the work of the unit, its directors gener- 
 ously set aside .f7()()0 to equip the nurses for overseas; but before this 
 sum was used, the Red Cross in Washington took over this 
 
44 On Active Service 
 
 obligation and repaid the amounts advanced by tlie Portland cbapter. 
 Upon suggestion from tbe Washington authorities, the Portland 
 chapter sent .$2500 to Colonel Davis late in A])ril. 15) IS. for emer- 
 gency use during travel, etc. 
 
 ASSIGNMENTS OF OFFICERS DURIXCi THE PERIOD 
 BEFORE MOBILIZATION 
 
 The first ofiicer to be called for duty was Ca])tain Paul Rockey, who 
 went to Fort Riley early in .lul.'^'; ui)on his assigmnent to ))ermanent 
 duty witli the Base Hospital, Camp Lewis, this otticer applied to 
 the Director for permission to resign from the staff of Base Hospital 
 No. K). which was granted in August. 1917- Dr. Herbert S. Nicliols 
 was forced to forego the acceptance of his connnission as captain, and 
 therefore gave up his place in the unit, in September. 1917. 
 
 Filling these two vacancies, the names of Dr. Otis B. AViglit. Port- 
 land, and Dr. Thomj)s()n Coberth (The Dalles) were submitted by the 
 Director, and these officers were commissioned in due time. 
 
 GENERAL ACTIVITIES OF THE BASE HOSPITAL 
 BEFORE MOBILIZATION 
 
 AFTER the ])relimiiiarv organization had been effected, and before 
 manv of the officers had been called to the active list, regular 
 drills in the school of the soldier and detachment, and setting-up 
 exercises, were carried out tri-weekly during two evening hours and 
 Sunday mornings, at Multnomah I'ield. Messrs. Prescott W. Cook- 
 ingham, Maurice W. Crum))acker. and Paul Giesy acted as drillmasters 
 at various times; all of these gentlemen are now commissioned officers. 
 This work was continued for both officers and men residing in Port- 
 land until late in Se))tember. 
 
 At various times from Decemlxr until Fel)ruary. selected enlisted 
 men under the supervision of Sergeant Coffey were sent to Camp 
 Lewis at their own expense, as civilians; and through the courtesy of 
 Major Greene, then commanding the Base Hospital, tliese men were 
 permitted to become familiar with the essentials of paper work and 
 mess management. Their periods of study varied from two to six 
 weeks, and about fifteen men were thus selected. 
 
 L^pon completion of the list of nurses as amended in December, 
 and upon commissioning of Captain Wight and Lieutenant Coberth, 
 Major Yenney certified the comjdetion of the unit to the Red Cross 
 under its revised strength; and under date of .lanuarv 2. 191S, the 
 
With Bask Hospital Fohty-Six 15 
 
 Red Cross formally certified the unit to the Surgeon General as com- 
 plete in officers, nurses, men and e(}ui))ment. The unit was then for- 
 mally (lr()])|)ed as a Red Cross organization, and tiic name " liiircrsit t/ 
 of Oregon diid liciicrolciti atul Protective Order of Elks Red Cross 
 Ihi.se Ilospitdl \ii»d>er Fort ij-skv" was changed to the official name, 
 "lUited States .Inn// luise Hospital Xiniilx'r Fort i/-sid\" 
 
 Instructions wen- neii\((l from the Surgeon General early in Janu- 
 ary, 1!)1S, to m.ukf all arrangements for suitable quarters for mobili- 
 zation of eidisted men, at once. Ry the courtesy of the Trustees of 
 Tcmplf Reth Israel and its rahbi. Dr. Jonah B. ^^'is(■. the fine building 
 of Rortland Academy was made ready to be turned over to the govern- 
 ment at any time, and the neighboring R'nai Rrith Club gave ))rivileges 
 of its swinuning pool, showers, and reading rooms. The city of Port- 
 land donated the use of a nearby fire station for (juarters for fifty 
 men. Telegra))hic orders ag;iin deferring mobilization were received 
 late in January; but certain trained detachment clerks who had left 
 their })ermanent work rem.iined on voluntary duty in the office of the 
 Director. 
 
 A fund of -i^HJOO was raised in the fall of 1S)17 by the enlisted men 
 and luirses, anil this was added to by the gift of ^•250 each from the 
 Fdks' War Relief Connnittee and the Portland Red Cross, all to be 
 used in the Director's diseretion for travel or other emergency expen- 
 ditures for the benefit of the entire personnel. 
 
i6 On Active Service 
 
 MOBILIZATIOX 
 
 ORDERS mobilizing Base Hosi)ital No. i6 were received by Captain 
 Otis B. Wight March ■20, 1918, and the long-prepared programme 
 was (juickly carried out. Four experienced sergeants arrived to assist 
 hiui in mustering in the men, and the work of physical examination 
 and inoculation was undertaken by officers not yet ordered into active 
 service, working under Cajjtain Wight. 
 
 Orders issued to Lieutenant Colonel ^^^ R. Davis, ]\I. C, then Sani- 
 tarA- Inspector of the Western Department, on March "21, directed him 
 to proceed to Camp Lewis, Wash., for the ])urpose of mobilizing, 
 equipping and counnanding Base Hospital No. i(). Colonel Davis 
 reached Portland April 1, and the members of the staff still in Port- 
 land received orders April ,S to report to the Commanding General at 
 Camp Lewis. 
 
 Mobilization at Portland was facilitated by the presence of Chaplain 
 C. .1. Greene, a Red Cross officer, who took u]) his quarters with the 
 enlisted men and remained at Portland Academy until the muster was 
 completed and all enlisted men gone. This movement to Camp Lewis 
 was in two stages ; a hundred men were sent to the Base Hospital there 
 March 27, and the rest accompanied Colonel Davis and the Portland 
 officers April 5. 
 
 Both officers and men were attached to the Base Hospital, Camp 
 Lewis, for training with the existing personnel there under command 
 of Lieutenant Colonel E. G. Northington, M. C. Early in the 
 stay at Camp Lewis complete overseas equipments were issued and 
 inspection of men and officers was made. Upon orders to increase the 
 enlisted force to ^OO, a considerable number of voluntary inductions 
 and enlistments were again made in Portland about the tenth of April, 
 and final vacancies were filled by selected drafted men from the l6()th 
 Depot Brigade. 
 
 Captain Otto W. Koch, M. R. C reported from Camp Lewis on May 
 14, being assigned to Colonel Davis as adjutant. 
 
 During April all nurses not yet assigned to duty were sent in various 
 groups to camp hospitals of the Atlantic seaboard, and Miss Phelps 
 went to Army General Hos})ital No. 9, at Lakewood, N. J., for super- 
 visoral work. Five civilian employees, either expert stenographers or 
 laboratorv workers, were called in through the Red Cross late in ]\Iay 
 and sent East ; and about the middle of iNIay all officers on detached 
 duty who had not been called to Camp Lewis to join the unit by reason 
 of their distance from that station were ordered to Hoboken and held 
 in camp hospitals in that vicinity. 
 
A\ iTH Bask Hospital Foktv-Six 
 
 47 
 
 Ordt-rs to the nurst's nil over the United States to report to Colonel 
 Davis in New York City were issued about May 23, and they were at 
 onee released to i)roefed Kast. A few days later came the final order 
 to officers and men at Camp Lewis to reach Cam)) .Merritt. X. J., as 
 soon after June l as possible. 
 
48 
 
 On AtTivE Skhvice 
 
 PRESENTATION OF COLORS TO THE BASE HOSPITAL 
 
 BECAUSE of thf status of Base Hospital M) upon tht- priority list 
 for early overseas duty, during its entire stay at Caniji I>ewis. 
 ceremonials ;ind ])ublic mention of the activities of its members had to 
 be curtailed. For this r( ason the ceremonial ])resentation of a magni- 
 ficent silk Hag to the unit by Portland Lodge No. 112, Benevolent and 
 Protective Order of Elks, on Monday morning, April 29, was limited to 
 an address by Mr. Monroe Goldstein, chairman of the Elks' committee, 
 the presentation by Mr. Charles Ringler. Exalted Ruler, and response 
 by Colonel I)a\is. This ceremony took ))Iace with the command drawn 
 up fronting the barracks used by them at the Base Hospital. The other 
 members of the connnittee were Messrs. W. F. McKenney and W. D. 
 Jamieson. The connnittee were guests of the officers' mess at breakfast 
 and were taken by Major Yeiniey u])on an extended tour of the can- 
 tonment before leaving. 
 
 The Mayor and Commissioners of Portland were guests of the 
 officers' mess on Tuesday, May 21, 19 IS. for luncheon, and after in- 
 specting the Base Hospital and the barracks of the enlisted men of 
 Base Hospital No. tfi, addresses were made to the officers and men by 
 Mayor Baker. Connnissioners Barbour. Maim. Bigelow and Kellaher. 
 
^^'lTH li ASK Hosi'ir Ai. loin ^ -Six 
 
 1-9 
 
 THK JOL RNKY EASTWARD 
 
 OFFICERS and nun were relieved from duties in tlie Hase llosjjital, 
 ("ani]) Lewis. May '^5* at 10 a. ni.. and in s))ite of the interveninjjj 
 holiday, entrained and moved at 1 : 1 .-) ]). m., Friday, May .'{J, in a train 
 of five standard I'nllnians, cook and baggage car. The following officers 
 made the trip: Colonel l)a\is. Majors Yeiiney .ind Joyce. Captains 
 Dillehunt. Fenton, Knox, Koch. Skene. Morse, (irctne. Lieutenants 
 Hlair, Lupton, Moran, Coberth, Ziegelman. McCown and Black. Licxi- 
 tenant Lu]iton was detachment commander. Lieutenant Blair, mess 
 officer. 
 
 The route was L nion Pacific via Vancouver. Hood River, The Dalles. 
 Huntington, Pocatello, Cheyenne, North Platte and Omaha; Chicago 
 (xreat Western via Fort Dodge, Oelwcin. l)ul)u<|ue and Chicago; Nickel 
 Plate via Fort Wayne. Elyria, Cleveland, Erie and Buffalo; Lacka- 
 wanna via Elmira and Scranton to Hoboken ; Erie to Cam)) Mer- 
 ritt, N. J. 
 
 Sto])s for marches were made at (jlenns I'erry. Idaho. Laramie, 
 Wyo., Oelwcin, L)wa. and Cleveland. Ohio. 
 
 Arrival at Creskill. N. V., occurred June 5, 19KS, at about 2 p. m., 
 and the command was immediately inarched to barracks in Camp Mer- 
 ritt. Completion of overs* as e(iui))ment and the reporting of all officers, 
 with abridged leave to \ isit New York, was the main occu))ation of 
 the period at this camp. Major Yeiiney, with his staff of officers, called 
 formally u])on the War Relief Committee, presenting the com))liments 
 and thanks of the organization to the Order, on June 7. 
 
50 On Active Service 
 
 PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE FROM CAMP MERRITT 
 
 SEVERAL »)fficer.s reported at Camp Merritt, a luimber direct from 
 civil life, and were outfitted at camp on verv short notice. Prac- 
 tically no leave to visit New York was obtainable. 
 
 The joint fund of some $6r)()() held by Major Yenncy for the emer- 
 gency use of the organization was transferred into American Express 
 checks payable through certain senior officers, so that some one should 
 at all times be on duty with the organization. 
 
 DEPARTURE 
 
 THE emergency mess, managed by Cajitain Sargcntich, served coft'ee 
 at 4 a. m., June 11, 1918. and the command marched to Dumont, 
 N. J., entraining there at T) a. m., on the West Shore Railroad, and 
 transferring via Weehawken Ferry to Pier ;)8, New York City. 
 
 Embarkation on R. M. S. Missanobie (C. P. R. R.. 1'2()()() tons) was 
 completed by 9 a. m.. and all baggage loaded by ') p. m. The steamer 
 left dock at 5:30 p. m., June 11, 1918. which is the time for computa- 
 tion of the commencement of overseas service of this organization. 
 Eieutenant Kelley came aboard in midstream. 
 
 The steamer lay off Weehawken until 7:15 a. m.. June 1'2. moving 
 out past Sandy Hook at 9 a. m., as second ship of a convo}' of 13 
 transports and an auxiliary Britisli cruiser, under escort of an American 
 cruiser and three destrovers. 
 
 THE VOYAGE 
 
 COLONEL DAVIS, conunanding. had been assigned as Surgeon 
 to the Missonabie, so that temporary command of Base Hospital 
 No. 46 fell to Major Joyce. The organization became post hospital 
 for the ship, and maintained a dispensary, isolation hospital and sick 
 call, furnished sanitary inspection and venereal and parasitic inspec- 
 tion, and in the latter part of the voyage furnished officers for two- 
 hour watch periods on the bridge. Captain Dillehunt remained adju- 
 tant, Captains Skene and Wight conducted the hospital, and Captains 
 Selling and Lieutenant Palmer were in charge of sanitary conditions ; 
 Lieutenant Lupton, detachment commander. 
 
^^'lTII E ASK HOSIMTAI, l'"()HTV-SlX 5] 
 
 Otlier orgaiii/atioiis on the sliip included: 
 
 Three hundred and twenty-second Machine Gun Battalion and 
 Headquarters; l.Sth Construction Comjiany ; Signal C"or])s (Aero); 
 Medical Rejilacenient Detachment. Fort Riley, and Nurses Re])lace- 
 m-iit Detachment; total all r;inks aboard. 19S1. There were also a 
 number of Canadian and English officers and tlieir families, and a 
 ship's crew of some .SOO. The ship was under the connnand of" Com- 
 mander (i. C. Kvans. 
 
 The escort cruiser left the convoy June '21. late at night (the Ameri- 
 can destroyers having returned the first day), and about noon of .hmc 
 22 the British escort of eight destroyers, led l)y H. 8 1 ( H. M. S. 
 Minos) arrived and took charge of the coJivoy. tlien northwest of Ire- 
 land about latitude .jti degrees. 
 
 Land was sighted .ahead at about 1 a. m.. .lune J.'!, first Islay Island, 
 Scotland, and a little later the north coast of Ireland. Ten destroyers 
 and several trawlers accompanied the convoy into the Irish Sea, past 
 the Mull of Galloway and the Isle of Man, entering the Mersey 
 after 10 ]). m. 
 
 I.AXDIXC; AT LIVERPOOL 
 
 A 
 
 NCHORINCJ ofl' the laiuling stage at Liver))ool about 1 1 )). m., 
 j~\. June 23, the Missanahic was held in the stream until 10 )). m. 
 .lune 2L when she docked in the Sandon basin. The jjublie buildings 
 of the v\tv were dressed witli American flags in honor of the eomoy. 
 
 H.ise Hospital No. 1() was disembarked .and m.irched to the C.an.ada 
 Docks Station of the London and Northwestern R.ailway at \:'.U) p. m., 
 .June 25, 1918. Lieutenant .Mor.in w.is sent to the Red Cross hos))ital 
 at -Mossley Hill to recover from a neuritis of one leg. The connnand 
 was received .it tlie st.ition by an English military band, and welcomed 
 to England on beh.ilf of the King by a Major detailed for that pur- 
 pose. Copies of the King's letter were distributed to the entire comm.and. 
 
 PASSA(iE THROLGH ENGLAND 
 
 THE train left Liverpool ,it .") :.)() p. m., passing by way of Crewe. 
 ^^'olverham])ton, liirmingham (coffee stop), Rugby, Oxford and 
 Winchester. 
 
.52 On Active Sekvick 
 
 Reaching Soutli.-iuipton .luiu- '26. U)1S. at !• a. in.. Pier ii, the com- 
 mand was marched three miles to the rest cani]) at Cowherds Inn, re- 
 maining nntil next day at 1:15 p. m. Embarking u})on a swift channel 
 steamer (Duchess of Arin/U, Caledonian Steam Packet Company), at 
 5:15 p. m.. leaving at 7 p. m.. with otlier similar boats nnder convoy of 
 an equal number of destroyers, the command passed Cowes. Ryde and 
 Spithead. and entered the channel about 10 p. m. 
 
 ARRIVAL IN KRANCK 
 
 A FTER a very speedy passage in l)right moonlight. Cherbourg in- 
 _l\. s])ection boat was reached at '2 : 15 a. m.. and the Duchess of Argifll 
 anchored in the inner harbor off the Gare Maritime of the Etat Rail- 
 way about .'> a. m. The command was disembarked under the joint 
 direction of the English and American trans])()rt officers at (i a. m., and 
 along with the I'^th Aero Construction Co., was marched to the English 
 rest cam}) at Tourlaville Chateau, SIm miles from the city. The stand- 
 ard presented to the organization by B. P. O. E. Lodge No. 1 tS was 
 carried in formation for the first time, on the soil of France, June 
 28, 1918. Tliese were the first American troo))s to debark and stay 
 overnight at tliis camp, and all arrangements were handled by the 
 English authorities. 
 
 
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 Al'"'rKI{ hrcakfast at !■ : 1 ."> a. ni., and the inarcli down to ( 'lurl)oiirii-. 
 tile sanif two coinniaiids tiilraiiicd toyctlKT and left at 7 :"2,") a. ni.. 
 \ia tlif Ktat Railway tor I'aris \ ia Mantes, tluiicc to reach the advance 
 section \ia tiie Est system liironiili \'ersailles and Jinisw But after 
 passinj; 15;iyeu\ and Caen, reaching- Mezidon tor eoli'ee from tlie Brit- 
 ish canteen ser\ ice. the train was sent south through AK^neon to Le 
 Mans, thus a\()idin<i- tlie Paris area at niyht at a time when air rai(is 
 were lieiny- rejxatid. Cotf'ee was ser\cd by the I'rench ser\ ice in the 
 outskirts of I.e Mans. 
 
 The morning- of June .'!() at t:;i(). the Loire was crossed into Tours. 
 hut (h lay was encountered in the transfer yards to the Orleans system, 
 and at St. Pierre-des-Corps it was not possible to dcla\- for breakfast. 
 Cotfee was served by tile I'rench at \'il]efranche about 11 a. ni.. and 
 after considerable diday from the congestion of war material ahead, 
 the train ));issed \ ia JJourges and Xexcrs to the P. I,. M . s\stem. and 
 supper and coffe<' were had at ( 'ercy-la-Tour about S ::',() p. m. 
 
 The morning of July 1. after passing I.e Creusot and its great forges 
 in the night, breakfast was ser\((l in the .\meriean Red Cross quarters 
 at Dijon, about S a. m. .Vt 10 a. m.. the train reached the distribution 
 yards at Is-sur-Tille. and Base Hospital No. t() was there separated 
 from the l.Sth Construction Company. I,e/i\ing Is-sur-Tille about 10 
 p. m. o\tr the l-',st system, th.- train was set out at t : 1 ."i a. m. on :\ siding 
 at 15azoilles-sur-.Meuse (\'()Si;es). 
 
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 THK DKSTINW'ITOX T\ I'RAXCF, 
 
 T () a. m.. July 'J. 10 IS. Base Hospital No. 1() detrained at Bazoil- 
 .l\. les-sur-Meuse and at/irched to section I of the great hospital 
 center at th.at point. Head(iuarlers were opened at once, and e(|uipment 
 recjuisitioned to make up for the n.in-arri\al of the e(]uipment which 
 was supposed to ha\f been shipped in thi' same convoy from Xt'W York 
 with the unit. 
 
 Base Hospitals Nos. IS (Johns Hopkins) and I 1 (i (federal) were 
 already installed at this point, the former in an old French armv hos- 
 ])ital. The otHcers were gi\(n the pri\ilege of messing M'ith linst- IK) 
 for a fi'w days. ;ind both units were most kind in assisting Base i6 
 to get established. 'I'his w.is made more ditticuit owini>- to the non- 
 
5 4 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 arrival of hraw baogagf for several weeks. The eonstruetioii work on 
 paths, roads, latrines, plumbing, roofing, etc., was all taken over by 
 the enlisted personnel of Base Hos])ital Xo. i6 from the engineer 
 force on the ground, and with the dubious assistance of Chinese and 
 Portuguese laborers was soon comjjlete. 
 
 Captains Dillehuut and Wight and later Colonel Davis, were dis- 
 abled for a few days by the current epidemic of "S])anisli grippe." 
 
 July i was celebrated by a Hag-raising at Base I Hi. The follow- 
 ing day the officers' mess of Base Ui was opened, with Captain Knox 
 mess officer. Lieutenant Blair remained mess officer for the detach- 
 ment. Lieutenant Palmer, sanitary inspector, and Lieutenant McCown, 
 fire marshal. The Adjutant took command of the detachment, and 
 as surgical teams were recommended by NLijor Joyce, some of the 
 younger officers were detached for tem])orary work near the front. The 
 first to leave were Lieutenants Luptou. McKenzie, Scott and Hynson. 
 
 The first promotion on French soil was that of Captain Knox, to 
 Major, by previous recommendation, under date of Julv IL Captain 
 Johnson was the first casual offieer to ])e added. 
 
 On the same date a party of enlisted men was sent to Bordeaux to 
 drive the motor transjjortation overland. 
 
 ■fuly 11-, the annivers;iry of the fall of the Bastille, coining on 
 Sunday, was celebrated by the display of the colors before quarters, 
 and by a sjjecial ])atriotic sermon by Chaplain Colton. American Red 
 Cross, who had been transferred to Base Ki on Julv 12. 
 
 I-A' KOITK TO BAZOIIJ.ES 
 
With 1? ask Hosimi- ai, 1<)Kt\-Six 
 
 THE NURSES' TRIl' OVERSEAS 
 
 HKN tile rail tor the orijaiiizatioii of a liasf Hosjjital 
 I nit (•;inic in May, li)I7. jii'cat cxcitcuuiit prcvailfd 
 tiiroufi-hout the nursing circlf.s in Ort-g-on. Every nurse 
 was imbued with tlie s))irit of jjatriotisni — anxious to do 
 her hit — and at that time the big l)it seemed to he to get 
 to France. All sorts of applications to join the unit were reci'ived. hut 
 when the nect-ssarv (]Ualificati()ns "moral, mejital and jjhysical" were 
 considered, the enrolling of 100 nurses, three sten()gra))hers. one 
 dietitian and two laboratory technicians was no easy task. I'irst to be 
 reckoiu'd with were the "too young class" and the "too old class." 
 'I'hen there were the "physically unfit' and. finally, the "married oiu's" 
 who wanted to go with their husbands. Next came the problem of the 
 necessary, but expensive equi))ment. Many nurses who had family re- 
 s])onsibilities found they could not meet this expense. As on eadi 
 and every occasion, when called n])on to help, the Portland Chapter 
 of the American Red C'rt)ss arranged to have the extra equijunent 
 supplied to the nurses free of cost. 
 
 New orders and instructions from Washington were l)eing received 
 almost daily. Physical examinations nnist be made and a|)proved. 
 The prophylactic typhoid, para-typlioid and smallpox treatment given. 
 M.iny and varied sad tales of the organization of the nursing ))er- 
 sonnel of our unit could b<- told, but we have learned to avoid sad 
 stories. 
 
 Would tlu' order for duty ever come .^ And what would that order be 
 — Cantonment duty or direct to I'r.ance? The first orders came No- 
 vember '2 I-. 1 !) 1 7 for ten nurses — six to proceed to (amp Lewis ami 
 four to proceed to I.ettcrman (ieneral Hospital. I'ive imrses who 
 were members of a unit to go to Roumania. but who were recalled 
 when our relations were severed with that eounlrv. were attached to 
 us and came with our four uursi s from Lettirman (ieneral to Van- 
 couver liarraeks. Wash., where liiey remained until all were .sent to 
 New ^'ork. I'ebruary 'i 1 . 1!»1S. ten more start-d for (amp ("uster. 
 Then another tedious wait, during which time several changes were 
 made in the nursing personnel and those who were ready became 
 (jui!e nervous, thinking th.il the war would not be ])r()perly finished 
 unless we were there to laud a hand. March 1, 1918, one nurse went 
 to (amp Kearney. .March !,"). 1!)18. six others landed at Camp Eewis. 
 March '21. 1!)1S. four to (amp Dodge. The big day was on April 6", 
 vhei. more than thirty nurses left the North Bank Station for various 
 
56 On Active Service 
 
 cantonmfiits. There could he no douht in our minds on that day as to 
 the devotion of our friends. The scene at the station rivalled the goinji 
 away of a hride — so many bouquets, bonbons and magazines. Thirteen 
 went to Cam]) Dix, five to Camp Merritt. ten to Camp Stuart, ten to 
 Camp Greene, eight to Cam)) Meade, eight to Camp Hancock, seven to 
 Camp Lee and on x\pril 8 four more were sent to Camp Upton. All 
 the nursing personnel of the unit were now on duty at the above can- 
 tonments, being instructed in army hospital methods and incidentally 
 caring for the great number of sick men of the young army soon to 
 be sent overseas. Again a long wait for orders which finally came "to 
 proceed without delay to Mobilization Station. Holley Hotel, New 
 York City, New York, to rei)ort upon arrival to the conuuanding officer 
 at the port of embarkation for duty overseas." 
 
 One step nearer France! Our five weeks in New York was indeed 
 a mad rush. The nurses arrived and were sent to different hotels; later 
 all were quartered at the Madison Square Hotel. A regular schedule 
 was established — nurses were checked in and out — nuist be on time for 
 mtals — must attend drill at the 71st Armory (some drill) — must be 
 outfitted ( nuf sed) — ))ureliasing of t'u' Unit fiag — identification tags — 
 })assports — many shows — bus rides. A great rivalry existed among the 
 nurses as to who could find the best and cheapest restaurant — this to 
 vary tiu' Madison S(]uare diet. The churches were most hospitable. 
 There were special services and teas. Nurses' Club made us feel per- 
 fectly at home. A beautiful party was given at the residence of Dr. 
 .lamts. where we were entertained by celebrities. 
 
 W'c nuist nuiition Dr. and Mrs. Reed and Lieutenant Dale as play- 
 ing a wry im])ortant part in our stay in New York. \\c were scheduled 
 to head tiie Red Cross section of the Fourth of July ])arade, but again 
 the order which ke])t us moving, aiul instead of participating in the 
 greatest parade New York had ever had. we were told to go quietly 
 away from our hotel in small grou})s. to be at the port of embarka- 
 tion not later than three o'clock that afternoon. This was accomplished, 
 but can we forget the mobilization of our baggage in the corridors of 
 our hotel .^ This included the comnuniity box and the flag. The servants 
 of the hotel were not sup])osed to know that we were leaving. After a 
 wait of perhaps four hours at the i)ier. we went aboard the wonderfully 
 camouflaged Aquitania, a British transport. No detail had been omitted 
 and in the shortest possible time all assignments had been made a^. 
 we were comfortably located in our staterooms. 
 
 We were requested not to dance by the commanding officer of the 
 
With IJask Hositiai, I'ohtn -Six 57 
 
 l)().-it, hilt otlur amuscinciits were tuniislud. siR-li as imisir, singing, 
 and attfrnoon ten. Daily fire drill, wliicli was not intcndid for aumsc- 
 inent, but which usually t'urnislicd its full (|Uota. Life prcstrx crs wtrt- 
 worn continuously throughout the voyage. 
 
 W'c were convoyed for several hours out ot New \ Ork. then \ve were 
 aloiu' until within two days of Liverpool, when, early in the morning, 
 five dcstrovcrs came, almost simultaneously, u))on the horizon. All on 
 hoard our shi]) thrilled when these little "live wires" of the sea slipped 
 into our path. Kveryone had the teeling of wanting to han over the 
 railing to give thcni a hearty hand shake or hug and whisper, "(ice, 
 we're ghad you're here." All through the night the guns of the little 
 destroyers and of our vessel kept hooming. The nurses, life prescrvi-rs 
 on. life saving suits within reach, slept but little. It was a (]uestiou 
 next morning whether or not the officers had gone to bed at all. as thev 
 were heard going up and down the corridors all night, and in the event 
 that a inirse met an officer in the c-orridor he assured her. with gusto, 
 that there was a storm at sea and that it was thiuider instead of guns 
 that she heard. However, lu-xt niorning we knew the truth, submarines 
 had been chased and one sunk. 
 
 \\ {■ disembarked at I,iver])ooI about S p. m.. Julv I',' the inirses 
 were the last of the main thousand aloai'd to leave the boat, ^^'c left 
 by rail for -Southampton between 1) and 10 ]). m. Knglish Red Cross 
 served eotfee at a way-station at midnight. .Vt davbreak all blinds 
 were u)) and heads crowded about the car windows to catch glimpses 
 of the piclurescjue fields, roadways and thatched-roofed villages. We 
 arrived at .'^outham])ton in the (arly morning. Hotel acconunodations 
 were jioor. food very poor, no sugar, no tea and a limited supply of 
 bread. 'I'hat afternoon, we were taken by a lighter and put aboard a 
 hospital ship, which dropped down to the l)ar made famous by I'enny- 
 son's "Crossing the Har. ' and remained there till dark. All lights 
 out. the well i-onvoyed ship moved cautiously forward for its perilous 
 trip across the channel. We reached I.e Havre July It. the Liberty 
 day of I'rance. Again, no sugar, no bread, congested hotels, but the 
 joy of the .Vmerican '■iioys ' upon seeing us e(iualled our own on 
 seeing them. We left Le Havre on .luly 1,'). and had a hasty breakfast 
 at the Red Cross refreshment booth railroad station in Paris, then 
 liundled onto a train. By this time we were beginning to realize that 
 we were in a country at war. At home were new uniforms, fresh and 
 enthusiastic troops-^in France were shabby uniforms and soldiers 
 
58 On AcTivK Service 
 
 verv tired aiul worn looking. |)frlia])s not so wildly tiitlnisiastic. l)nt 
 none the less determined. 
 
 One hundred and five very weary women reaelied Bazoilles-sur- 
 Mense, Vosges, France at 8 p. m. on July 19. All so glad to reach our 
 station and to see our splendid officers and men, who certainly had pre- 
 pared for our coming. After a hot bath, a good dinner, we laid aside 
 all our cares and had the first real good night's sleep since leaving 
 New York. Our breakfast was served to us in bed by a few of the 
 more energetic mirses, it being the order of the commanding officer 
 that nurses should stay in bed the next day. if they cared to do so. 
 Now we were readv to do the thinjj; that should come our wav. 
 
^^'^nl Bask Hosimtai- Foinv-Six 
 
 59 
 
 LNIT AT WORK 
 
 N ,111.^' 1() tile luirsts arrived aiui were located in their 
 (liiarters. wliieli liad been made livable tliroufili the c<)\ir- 
 tesv of Colonel Walker, t'oinnianding otiic'er. Hase Hos- 
 pital No. IK), who furnished necessary Ixdding. etc. 
 On this day, also the first surgical te/uns went to the 
 front. On July 1!) the hospital was moved across the Meuse to build- 
 ings directly adjoining Base IS. This was considered a better location 
 on account of less noise and possible freedom from winds aiul fog.s. 
 Little (lifficult\- was experienced in moving as practically no e(iui])nient 
 was on hand. 
 
 None of the wards in the new location were suitable to receive 
 patients on account of l.ick of i)lumbing and of tables, shelving, etc., 
 in diet kitchens and linen rooms. Practically all of this work was done 
 by the enlisted personnel and with great ditficulty on account of the 
 lack of material and tools. In order to meet possible emergencies, 
 Wards 1 to ."> were first completed, the surgery, eye, ear ajid nose clinic, 
 X-Hav and receiving ward were in the same unfinished state, but these, 
 loo, were completed in time to attend to patients when they rushed in. 
 
 On ,Iuly '21 the first patients to occupy wards, some 200 in number, 
 were sent over from Base 18 as an overflow. The first patients admitted 
 to our hospital through reeei\ ing ward w.is on July ^.'J. As the receiving 
 ward had, at that time, no bathing facilities the first disastrous results 
 of allowing cooties to get in the wards was experienced. How-ever, by 
 energetic work the next d.iy. .ill patients were cleaned up and bedding 
 and clothes disinfected, it took a eon\()y of Oerman prisoners to 
 repeat tills dis.aster. 
 
 Air-raid .-ilarms occurred (piite freciuently. interfering materially with 
 work in the wards, as well as adding to the general discomfort of 
 <\(r\()ne, I'ortunatelv, nothinff more serious than alarms e\-er occurred. 
 
 One of the most serious conditions encountered was the shortage of 
 water supjjly during the sununtr and several times water liad to be 
 carried in buckets from Base I cS to supply wards and kitchens. On 
 .■iccount of lack of transportation, great difficulty was experienced in 
 disposing of hospital waste. 
 
60 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 Duriii<>- tlif Mctivc fijriiting at the front patients were rccfived in 
 large convoys, frequently kept a few days only and then. exce])t the 
 very worst, evacuated. This threw an enormous amount of work, not 
 only on surgeons, nurses and ward men. l)ut on the receiving ward, 
 registrar's office, kitchens and tent city as well. The zeal displayed 
 by all, especially men and nurses, was so manifest and spontaneous 
 as to make everyone feel a particular pride in the organization. The 
 manifestations of joy on hearing that the armistice had been signed 
 on November 1 1 need not be mentioned. 
 
 On December .SI, orders came from the center tliat Evacuation Hos- 
 pital No. 26 would relieve Base l6 and that we were to return home. 
 Tater this order was revoked and Base Ki ordered to turn over all 
 property ])reparatory to abandoning this hospital, the UTiit to return. 
 It is needless to say that no time was lost in complying with this order. 
 Twentv-five nurses \()lunteered to rem/iiii and five additional were 
 selected to make u]) the thirty required to remain over. Five medical 
 officers, Ziegelman, Scott. Mars, McKenzie and Kelley, were also 
 slated to remain. 
 
^\iTii Bask Hosi'itai. I"()in'\ -Six 
 THK WORK OK 15 ASK HOSIMTAK NO. Ki 
 
 ()1 
 
 I'l'ICKRS and pcrsoiim-l of Hase H()s])ital No. Ki 
 arrived at H;izoillcs-.siir-.Mfusc ,FuIv '2, 1918, tlic mirst's 
 coming- on .Inly Ki. On July I!', we moved across the 
 river to our perniauiiit loc'ation. made up of twenty 
 ,)()-l)cd wards and 1 ()()() additional beds in tents. On July 
 '2;:! we received our first convoy of patients. From tlien until January 
 19, 1919. wlien we evacuated all our cases to other hospitals in the 
 center, w^e admitted 8,S()() patients; LSI died (a mortality of \.M) per 
 cent). On October IS. we touched the ])eak of our activity. I.")?') 
 patients in wards and tents. 
 
 The Medical Ser\ ice. up to December l.'i. 19 IS, receixcd H'79 
 patients, representing ])rincipally cases of gas poisoning, influenza, 
 gastro-enteritis, and pneumonia. There were a|)proximately 8i() cases 
 of gas poisoning, mustard gas being the most common cause ; there were 
 ll^S cases of influenza, 112 cases of bronclio-pneumonia, and kS cases 
 of lobar pneumonia, with eight cases of resulting empyema, of which 
 one died. Our pneumonia mortality, including coinjjlications. was 
 50 per cent. Twelve cases of typhoid and eight of ))ara-typhoid. all 
 type B, developed, five cases of meningitis occurred, two cerebro- 
 spinal, one pneumococcus, one tubercular, and one undiagnosed. We had 
 14 cases of j^roven pulmonary tuberculosis, two of which died in the 
 hospital, and 2,") cases under obser\ation, where the ])hysical signs and 
 general symjitoms warranted a diagnosis, but the sputum findings were 
 negative. 
 
 On the Surgical Service, during the same period. .'M'2'2 cases were 
 received, of which 620 were operated. The mortality from wounds 
 and complications was 2S or O.S per cent. ()( these surgical eases. 2.S 
 were gas infections, of which four died. We had a rather extensive 
 fracture service, the more connnon being: y>6 of the feuuir, ,-)() of the 
 humerus, la of the tibia .ind I.") of the skull. I'"or all cause, the fol- 
 lowing m;ijor amputations were performed: arm. (i ; leg. 2: thigh. 2. 
 
 This lios))ital was designated to receive the Neuro-Surgieal eases in 
 this center. A\'e had seven cases of G. S. W. of the spinal cord, all 
 of which died; 'AO G. S. W. of the skull and head wert" operated, of 
 which one died. There were 1.") nerve injuries received, the most fre- 
 quent being, in order, Ulnar, Musculo-si)iral, .Median and Sciatic. In 
 addition, we had 1 H cases of Psychoneuroscs. jjrincipally following 
 "Shell Shock"' and S,") other cases where evidence definitely pointed to 
 
6^ On Active Service 
 
 a Psyc'liornfurosis following high ex]>h).sives. 
 
 Our eye, ear, nose and tliroat clinic treated ]~69 cases in the dis- 
 pensarv, besides a very large number of cases in the wards, mainly 
 mustard gas conjunctivitis. These figures do not include those treated 
 in the eye clinic which was established here for the whole center, early 
 in November, and which was extremely busy, mainly on refractive 
 work. Up to December 1'5, 6l tonsillectomies were ixrforined and 
 86 myringotomies for acute Otitis Media. 
 
 The X-Ray Department was handicapped by being forced to use 
 onlv the army bedside machine, but was of great value in locating for- 
 eign bodies, for the patients were taken immediately from the X-Ray 
 room to the operating table. The apparatus w.as also taken to the 
 fracture wards where it helped materially in the good results obtained. 
 In the late Fall, its principal use was in the diagnosis of chest condi- 
 tions, sucli as broncho-pneumonia, empyema and tuberculosis. 
 
 The Genito-L rinary Department, uj) to Decembir \o, 1918, treated 
 72 cases of acute gonorrheal urethritis, 10 cases of chancroidal infec- 
 tion, l6 cases of primary, 'AS secondary and 10 of tertiary syphilis; 
 besides numerous gonorrheal epididymitis, lymphadenitis and athri- 
 tis ; and many non-venereal conditions, such as cystitis and tubercular 
 infections of the urinary tract. 
 
 In July, before any convoys were received, three surgical teams were 
 withdrawn from the hospital staff and attached to various field and 
 evacuation hospitals and all remained away until after the signing of 
 the armistice. Three other members of the staff were detached to evac- 
 uation hospitals, where they filled in on surgical and shock teams dur- 
 ing the same ])eriod. 
 
 While this hospital was open, there were treated 2\'> German pris- 
 oners and 11 French soldiers. 
 
 Of the 8366 patients received in this hospital, not more tlian 28 per 
 cent were actually returned to duty, due to the fact that from the 
 beginning of operation up to and even after the armistice, we func- 
 tioned largely as an evacuation hosjiital and many of the cases re- 
 ceived remained here <mly for a very short jxriod. 
 
With Bask Hospital Foktv-Six 
 
 63 
 
 THE HOSPITAL CENTER 
 
 HILK Hasf Hospital Ki fiiiictiomd as an iiuliv idiial 
 unit, as did tlu- otlit-r bast- liospitals in the ctntcr, miidi 
 of the distribution of tht- ))atients corning into tlie center 
 and tile forwarding of the reports from tlie hospitals 
 was done by thi- Headcpiarters Hos))ital ('enter, an office 
 
 organized witli the object of l)ringing all the hospitals under one liead 
 
 for administrative supervision. 
 
 This hea(hiuarters was organized in July, 15) IS. and placed under 
 the eoniuiand of Colonel Klnier A. Dean. Medical C()r])s, Regular 
 Army, with Major H. S. Osborne. Medical Reser\f Corjjs. as his 
 .■idjutant. 
 
 The function of these lieadcpiarters was to act as a recording office 
 for all military reports and returns, exercise courtmartial jurisdiction 
 over the command, take up with higher authorities subjects that per- 
 tained to the Hos))ital Center as a whole and, in fact, act for the 
 Hospital Center in the same capacity as the inanager of some big 
 business would act in supervising the various dejiartments under his 
 control. 
 
 The Headquarters Building was necessarily divided into several 
 departments, the commanding officer, adjutant, personnel adjutant, 
 evacuation officer and sanitary officer all having their s})ecial work to 
 do. Of these offices, considering the subject from the stand))oint of a 
 member of the medical j)r()fession, the evacuation office was ])robably 
 the most im])ortant. as it handled the recei])t and dis])atch of all 
 patients coming into the center. And when it is considered that there 
 were as many as six thousand patients handled by the office during 
 twenty-four hours, it can be |)lainly seen that this office was kept fairly 
 busy during the period of the big rush. The evacuation office was 
 su])))osed to exchange all hos))ital ])roperty that left the different 
 hospitals on the person of individual patients, checking the amount 
 that went on the train, drawing the same amount from the train's 
 storeroom, and the connnanding officer of the train would replenish 
 his supplies at the ))oint to which ])atients were e\acuated. 
 
 A great deal more c-.annot be said aliout the other offict's of the hos- 
 pital center except to state that the sanitary officer w.is, working in 
 connection with the sanitary officers of the various units, directly 
 responsible for the })olice and sanitary conditions of the camj) .at all 
 times. 
 
64 
 
 Ox AtTlVE SkRVK E 
 
 \A'orkiiig in coniKctioii with Ht;i(l(]ii.-utfrs Hosjiital C'ciiU-r, but 
 apart from it as far as direct supervision was concerned, was the Group 
 Quartermaster and the Group Medical Supply Officer. The first, under 
 the able command of Major Edward H. Schell, Q. M. C. was the 
 office directly concerned with the su))ply of rations, fuel and light. 
 laundry work and last, but not hast, our monthly pay. At no time 
 during the history of the center did the Quartermaster disappoint us, 
 and his untiring efforts were responsible to a large extent for the 
 success of the work carried on in the center, for when rations come in 
 regularly, and pay day comes early enough in the month to lead the 
 soldiers to believe that they are being paid for their month's work as 
 soon after the money is earned as possible, a great deal of discotitent 
 that would manifest itself under other conditions is avoided. 
 
 The Medical Supply Depot, in charge of Captain J. Luther Brad- 
 lev, was directly charged with the procuring and issuing of all medical 
 .supplies and surgical appliances to all the hos})itals of the center, and 
 while the supplies came in very slowlv at first, alon"- towards the end 
 of the war. the de])ot had a very fair stock of medical and surgical 
 sujiplies of all kinds on hand. Too much cannot be said in behalf of 
 the American Red Cross, who furnished carload after carload of 
 medical supplies that could not. at the time they were badly needed 
 here, be sujjplied by the Medical I)e})artment on account of transporta- 
 tion difficulties. 
 
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 Top view of n.iziiilles and ! iDspit.iU. Middlo view (if Bazoilles \allev— Base Hospital 
 Hi ill Kifrlit Front. Hottoin — Ilo-pital Center. sliowinK I'Tiited ."states Hospital Train. 
 
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 Ox A( TivE Service 
 
 BAZOILLES 
 
 AZOII.LES-SUR-MEUSE— a village of 4 hi iiilial.it- 
 ai'ts is located in the department of the Vosges. This 
 department takes its name from the mountains which 
 border it on the east and consists generally of high land, 
 hroken ii]) by numerous valleys. There are three large 
 rivers wliieli rise in these high lands, the Meuse, the Moselle and the 
 Meurthe. There are no large cities and only a few small ones; of 
 these Xeuf chateau with 1000 inhabitants is the most important to 
 dwellers in Bazoilles from the fact that it is distant a scant four miles. 
 Historically, this region is of interest chiefly because it contains 
 Domremy, the birthplace of Joan of Are. But there are still tradi- 
 tions of Roman days and few ruins can be found. 
 
 From the scanty data of the village archives wt' learn that the name 
 Bazoilles comes from the Latin word "Basis" (lowland) and an old 
 Gallic word "oye" (goose). We Americans who have lived here feel 
 that the true meaning is better expressed by the phrase "A good place 
 for dncks." From these same archives, we learn that a city once 
 occupied the site of the present village. It had two lords' estates, an 
 abbe}^ dating from the fifteenth century and in the woods across the 
 river a monastery of Templars. Strange to say not a trace of the 
 monasterv or of the castle remains. However, it is still possible to 
 find here and there vestiges of an old Roman road which ran between 
 Bazoilles and Grand. The ancient city also ])ossessed a largf iron 
 foundry or forge and two mills. 
 
 As it now stands the village can claim no special object of interest 
 besides its church and the quite modern chateau. According to M. 
 Perdrix, the mayor, the walls of the church date from the eleventh 
 century. The belfry and stained glass windows are relatively recent. 
 Stored away in the rear of the church is a valuable ancient carved wood 
 altar. 
 
 The chateau is at present occupied by Base Hospital 18. which 
 arrived in the valley on July 12, 1917- Previously it had been used 
 bv the F'rench for the same purpose as the small military cemetery 
 bears witness. In this are buried five Algerians, two Russians, nine 
 F'renchmen, four English officers, one English sergeant, 62 Americans, 
 including one lieutenant and one nurse besides five unidentified sol- 
 diers. Since Jul}' 15, 1918, this has been closed and a new cemetery 
 for the wlioh' center capable of containing l9tV2 graves opened. At the 
 
With Base Hospitai, Forty-Six 
 
 67 
 
 ])rtsfiit date ( l)tcTUili( r 17. 1!>1S). the t'ollouiiiii- nrc huriid tlicrc: 
 Nine officers, four iiursts. 1S() soldiers and "27 (ierinan prisoners. It is 
 officially known as the "L nited States Military C'enieterv Xo. (i. " 
 
 The Anieric.ui city of Bazoilles contained at one time fnll\- 11. ()()() 
 inhabitants, most of whom were patients in the hospitals. There were 
 six of these in addition to Base Hosjiital Xo. IS. and tlie date of their 
 arri\al nia\' he worth ehronieliny. 
 
 Base Hospit.il No. 1 Hi. April <). 1<»]S; No. Ki. ,hdy 'J. 1!)IS; Xo. t"2, 
 July 1,-). 191S; Xo. (iO. Septemhcr 1.".. 1 !) 1 S ; Xo. SI. Scptemher ^>5. 
 1!»1S : Xo. 7!». Octoiier Ki. 1!)1S. 
 
 In addition there weri' en<i'ineers and lajjor hattalions and a Motor 
 Transport Corps. .\lso a tVu (asual ni< (iical units stopjxd \s itii us for 
 a tinu'. Of these. I will mention two — K\acuition Hospital Xo. ()' 
 .iiui Mohile Operatinii' L nit Xo. 1. 
 
 In conclusion. I take the liherly to add a personal note of yratitude 
 for the hearty hospitality and inirestricted coo])eration shown me from 
 the very outset hy everyone connected with Base Hospital Xo. If). 
 THOMAS A. 1)1 X AX. Catholic Chaplain. 
 
68 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 LIFE OX THE MEUSE 
 
 AZOILLES-SUR-MEUSE! "But wlicrt- is the Meiise?" 
 we asked. We had crossed that liistoric stream by the 
 footbridge in the meadows several times before we had 
 realized that this slender rivulet meandering lazily from 
 pool to pool was none other than the famous river whose 
 name has been a household word during the battle of Verdun. But 
 those who came from the banks of the Columbia or Willamette had to 
 consider that in Lrance renown is not granted on the claims of mere 
 bigness — likewise, that it is unreasonable to expect a river to be of 
 e(|ual width along its whole course, and after all, it was a long way 
 from the most advanced Hospital Center to \'erdun. from our (juiet 
 valley to the shell-churned trenches of the world's greatest battlefield. 
 \^'e had that rubbed in later, when the wounded came back and 
 said: "Well, vou sure have a soft thinii- of it here." 
 
 Since language in the A. E. F. tends to reflect the s))irit of the 
 Franco- American alliance, the name of the place of our sojourn 
 i!aturallv met with drastic treatment in the course of our efforts to 
 amalgamate the tongues. Bazwillie Sure ^loose, Bazwillie Submerged, 
 Baz Eels on the ^luss and many other variations were in vogue, as 
 witness to the belief that a village in the Vosges by any other name 
 would smell as sweet. It was rather ))rovoking in the dry season to see 
 a river so neglectful of its duty, namely to run: at the time when water 
 was so scarce that experiments were made showing that a private first 
 class of the Medical Corps could make his morning ablutions, shave 
 and do his laundry with a canteen of water and still have enough left 
 to help out a friend, the Meuse degenerated into a swamp, but by De- 
 cember there was water enough to permit the engineers to hold a 
 regatta. 
 
 It was in the drv season that homesickness, as tending to increase 
 the humidity, should have been given every facility of expression, but 
 it was the lot of one of the nurses, shortly after their arrival, to ex- 
 23erience the rigors of military discipline even in such a personal matter 
 as that of having a g»)od cry. Unable to control her emotions, she left 
 the barracks one evening and seated herself on the edge of the side- 
 walk and was weeping there in a perfectly ladylike manner without dis- 
 turbing anyone, when the guard came along. Instead of offering sym- 
 pathy he informed her that it was against orders to sit and cry on his 
 post. She moved on, but not knowing much about posts she selected 
 another sjjot unsuitable for undisturbed wretchedness. This time it 
 
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 was an officer who ■-.•lid: "If yoii don't get off the post you will he ])ut 
 into the guard-house." It was the last straw. She went back to the 
 barracks and wailed. "Oh. girls, what an awful ])lace this is ! You 
 can't e\'en crv without being put into the guard-house!" 
 
 In some resjxcts the life of a doctor in a Base Hospital seems like 
 that of the members of a cit\- fire department — the gentlemen whom 
 you see in front of the fire station with their chairs tilted back, reading 
 the advertisements in a newspaper; with them it is feast or famine, 
 periods of intense activity alternating with those of enforced leisure. 
 That is the way it is in the Base Hosi)ital. and the slack periods were a 
 sore trial to many of us. ^^'hen the wards were full and everybody 
 was busv the ,it;nos])here was oiu- of cheerfulness how different it 
 was at other times! Those days of incessant rain with nothing to 
 do! It might be "real Oregon weather" — the writer does not know, but 
 he could see that no appeal to tenderness of honie-sentinient was able 
 to make it anything but tedious and dismal. Those were days when 
 even the suggestion of a walk to Harre\ ille-les-Chanteurs. or of a tri)) 
 to town to take a b.-ith at the Lafayette C'lul) failed to awaken enough 
 enthusiasm to cope with the nnul ; when one heard the sound of the 
 tin ])an announcing breakfast and turned o\'er with a stern resoh'c to 
 sleej) a while longer and so shorten the day; when the Literary So- 
 eietv. orginalh- instituted by the sa\ants of Barracks No. "i. was out- 
 done by the younger chapter in the other barracks; when t-vening 
 sessioTis were supplemented by all-day programs; when the delegate 
 from the Roekeft'llcr Institute found his etl'orts to promote cheerful- 
 ness unavailing, and hoii mots were answered with curses: "Sto]) that 
 dannied racket! It's hard enough to pose for a picture without that 
 noise!" The delegate from South Orange couldn't look pleasant that 
 day — and wiio could blame him? It was December, ncaring Christni/is. 
 and at home Ihey were getting ready for the festival, and there liad 
 been so man\- rumors .-ifout our being ordered home that faith had 
 grown cold. and. abo\c all there was nothing to do I I'',\ tn if Satan 
 finds misi'hief for idle hands to do he didn't find enough to keep time 
 from lianging hea\ \ on our hands, ^'es the brethren will remember 
 the rain\ season at Ba/oilles-sur-Meuse ! 
 
Ox Active Sf.rvk e 
 
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 Upper Left — Hospital Street. Middle Left— View of Convalescent Tents. Ipper 
 
 Risrlit — Bazoilles Chnrch Tower. Bottom— Chateau, Headquarters Base Hospital 
 
 No. lA. (Johns Hopkins Hospital Cnit) 
 
^^'ITII l^\SK HoSl'ITAI. I'"f>I!TV-Sl: 
 
 71 
 
 .MKL'STXGS 
 
 One of these days little Oswald is going to eliiiib up on Daddie's 
 Uiiee. look ])lcadiiigly u)) into his fatherly eountenanee anil say: 
 
 "And Daddie. what did you do in the great world war?" 
 
 'I'hc Daddie in (juestion will inuncdiately elicw the end of his eigar, 
 and then after glancing around to str if any one is in licaring dis- 
 tancr. will say: 
 
 "Oh. ni\- eliild. xoiir f.ithcr was \(ry. \try l)ra\i-. He li\id. suH'ered 
 and nearly dird ,il tlif sitgc of Ha/oille. 
 
 "And where is Hazoille. |)a-i)ali ."' 
 
 At tli.il. father will relight liis eigar. raise his eyehrows. smile 
 reniiniscently. and eontiiuie: 
 
 "Ah. mv little Oswald, tliat was on the bloody Meuse. that wonderful 
 river which almost flowed through the fair \illage of l5azoille." 
 
 "Hra\e Daddie. ' adiniriniih' u,uroles Oswald. 
 
 HI. I., to get down to brass tacks and bully beef, this 
 article is designated to describe, enumerate, tabulate, 
 speculate, and u.irrate the doings, designs, frolics, and 
 other activities of the enlisted jiersonnel of Base Hos- 
 pital No. t() from the tinu' of mobilization to the |)resent 
 pt riod of the game, (ieiitle reader, pick out a nic-e. tat. comfortable 
 da\fn])ort. a good brand of cigarettes, and a bottle ot yom- f.noritt — 
 (that last is all wrong, you'll be reading this in the St/ites. won't yon ? 
 and they tell me it's btastly dry now): |)ut on your slipixrs ,-ind be 
 ])repared to list to the tale of the fighting forty-sixers. 
 
 In the first ])lace it was most irrit/iting to be in the reser\ e from 
 July. 1!)17. to the Ides of March. l!)lcS. The brethr«-n-to-be-in-arnis 
 got so used not to being called into service, and merily remaining on 
 the inactive list, that many of them were actually dumbfounded when 
 after eight mouths of watchful waiting they were suddenly ordered 
 to beat it pronto to Portland Academy for the horrors of war. .Some of 
 the brethren had to charter the Twentieth Century Limited to get 
 there, but they all finally managed to r( ach the unit, old Bill Paeth 
 finally crawling in some time towards .Ma\- da\- and the original unit 
 was conijilete. 
 
 The period at Portland .\cadtany for two or three weeks was one 
 of inoculation, humiliation, and subordination. If they weren't shoot- 
 ing you for some kiiul of germs, they were assigning you to the out- 
 side police. .Many of the brethren were very capable at wielding a 
 wicked pen. or fox-trot, but when it came to making a shovel whistle. 
 
72 Ox AcTivK Skrvice 
 
 all. gfiitlf rt-adtr. let us .Iraw tlu- \til. Ht-re. too. was wlurc the per- 
 sonnel wt-rc iiitrodiiffd to that famous presidt-nt of the Durliani 
 factory, that u.ost illustrious sho()t<r of the delicious yap. namely, one 
 to whom we have all learned to listen with marked attention, namely. M. 
 G. Campbell. M. G., standing for the American equivalent of "Gott mit 
 L'ns." Merle. I believe, sold over a million dollars worth of insurance, 
 the only man who balked being Mrs. Stanton's only son. Broderick, 
 who finallv fell to Merle's powers of oratory and ;}^(i.,")() ])er uionth. 
 
 Things at the academy went along in great leaps and liounds. Rich- 
 ard Werner, of Esparto. O. A. C, and other places doing the top-cutter 
 to a fair-thee-well. Richard used to trot the men down to the Hazel- 
 wood for three nuals a day. and there the howling moh would lap the 
 food til Manager Joyce would howl for mercy. It was iiere where 
 1 first met our two prize gormandizers, the powerful Shagrcn and 
 the Chesire-faced Hughes. From the start these men have ))roved 
 their sterling worth, by being the two best exponents of the art of 
 bully-beefing, the unit has seen. In fact, they seem never to be 
 satisfied, and even over here if you want to find them, simply have 
 the proper eating establishment paged. Hut that is another story. 
 
 One morning the unit departed for Camp Lewis, some of the 
 brethren having gone up the week previous to arrange for the grand 
 reception. The trip w'as one never to be forgotten. After a tearful 
 petit de jeuner at The Hazelwood at about 1:.S() a. m.. or some ungodly- 
 hour, we steamed out of the Union Station, witli Mayor Baker waving 
 a handkerchief at us. and yodeling a foul "I'm l)eliind you. hoys." 
 Aye. brothers, the first lap I 
 
 Camp Lewis with all the l)ustle and rush of a new mining town wel- 
 comed us as a long lost son. In fact, they thought so much of some of 
 our men thatrtliey put us all to work. And liere 1 may state is where 
 n)any of the brethren had their first real experiences with battleships 
 and sul)marines. far as Camp Lewis may be from the Atlantic. The- 
 Base Hospital at Ca.np Lewis was mighty glad to stc us ali\e. and 
 immediately told us all the nice things that wint to make up our duties. 
 However, you can't fool all the people all tli- time, and soon a great 
 light dawned. 
 
 About the first rial impression that di\nlg( s t'roni tin- mind of the 
 average member of the enlisted personnel concerning the trials and 
 cares of Cam]) Lewis is that of morning drill. In the first place, the 
 j)owers that be decided it would be a great idt a to s; t tlie clock ahead 
 
With Bask Hospital Fortv-Six 7^ 
 
 ;iii lu)ur. so that instead ol' litttiiiti- up at the already territ)h- hour of 
 tr.'U) we were really getting up at 3:30. Imagine, getting u}) in tlu- 
 middle of the night to stand in line, shivering in the morning fog, to 
 veil "Yoooooo," and tlieii merely romj) down to a drill field, and go 
 through the various hieroglyphies and twists that one H. .1. U'erner in 
 sisted was extremelv good for us. And to add to all this a niee little 
 run u]) the hill to hreakf.-ist. Oh. Hieliard. how eould you ha\f been 
 so eruuuul? 
 
 And then we had to drop all our niee perfeetiy resix'etable eiviliau 
 habits of roaring lustily when we eanie home and can you picture it 
 going to bed at nine o'eloek ? One evening (this was a very fine even- 
 ing), late in A])ril. two eertain individuals (names del, ti-d by censor). 
 were aetuallv reprimanded for saying "good night" to i aeli other .it 
 one minute after nine. And for that we had to pack radiators the next 
 evening. Oh. well! 
 
 Then came the season of our discontent. Ah. some one had heard 
 some one tell the chaplain's great-grandmother's aunt that we were 
 about to leave for an Atlantic port. So, we were all instructed in the 
 gentle art of K(iuii)ment (". (ientle reader, for your benefit. I will 
 elaborate ui)on the beauties and art of Kcjuipment (". That is an e(iuip- 
 ineiit issued bv the go\>rnuient for use overseas, consisting chiefly in 
 imj^ortance in shoestrings. In the first })lace. the mayor of (iresliam. 
 otherwisi" known as "('a\alrv Schneider." so called because he s built 
 that way. fitted us out in the cut;st little boy scout uniforms you excr 
 saw. Oh, mv. ves. and all you had to do in one of them w.is to ap- 
 proach a soldier in the cam)). Iiand him a cigarette or present of some 
 .sort, and he'd replw ".So this is your act of kindness for today, bless 
 vou, mv lad. " \\'e wore these affairs for a few weeks, until e\<ii the 
 S])ruce Division protested, so they gave us some real stuff. 
 
 Hut to get back to f',(|uipment C. which I may add. is overseas e(|ui|)- 
 ment. Thev were always having us assort our outfits on our bunks, 
 just when you'd get them all laid out jiretty like, some one would tell 
 vou that the sjioestring.s should be tied in rosettes and not in l)ows. 
 And tlien it was to do all o\ er again. .\h. those wi re the days. To add 
 to all this, we had with us a most dextrous cnature. who was a chosen 
 <xpert in rolling packs. 'I'ruthfully. h ■ taught us eighteen \arieties of 
 j)acks before he decided which kind was the hardest to make up. Any- 
 way, we had \vh;it might be termed in our military ))eriod. a period 
 of ])re-construction. 
 
 One day Richard callid us unto him. •■ind did spake Ihusly: "My 
 c-hildreii. you will empty your IHtle bed tic-ks of the straw contained 
 
74^ On Active Service 
 
 thereat, aiul sltf)) as best you may this eve. Can you ])icturf it. <ifiitli- 
 reader; this actually brought cheers from the men. For what did .all 
 this mean.'' Mean! Ach. shades of Bazoille-to-be ; it meant that little 
 Base Hos])ital \o. M) was about to jxirti font suite for forcig-n shores. 
 
 The next morning after a heavenly night on iron cots, sans every- 
 thing, we were all hustle and bustle. At twelve-thirty after an excited 
 lunch, the mighty herd gathered in front of the barracks, and amid 
 cheers and plaudits of the multitudes marched otf for the station. 
 clindied aboard tiu' train and bingo, off we went for th.e East. 
 
 ^Vithout a doubt that trip of five days was the most interesting, 
 speediest and fascinating trip on wiiich the men (.f Base Hos))ital K\ 
 had ever crossed the continent. We left Cam]) L.wis behind us at 
 one-ten p. in., on May the 31st, 191(S. W\ whistled into Portland and 
 immediately steamed out the Columbia about four ]). m. and were way 
 u}) in Eastern Oregon before even Chis l-'cldnian could start a black 
 jack game. If you can feature that you l;a\f some idea of how we 
 started to travel. 
 
 Immediately after starting on our journey we were told what we 
 were not su])i)osed to do. (You sec, gentle reader, there are so many 
 things that we simply can't do in the araiy. it's \-ery ])oor form you 
 know, really to have anything the way you w;uit it). First, after we 
 had folded our Sunday School Hymnals, we were informed that the 
 doughnuts handed us by the eager ladies of the ^^^ C. T. U. and 
 Pocatella Eadies' Union were liable to contain rat ))oison, and that 
 we might not be able to tie our shoestrings in the regulation rosette 
 if we ate any of them. Of course this broke all the ladies hearts ch 
 route, but the brave laddies of i6 passed up all the doughnuts aiul 
 en route fodder, leaving it all to others whom we shall not mention. 
 
 On s])ed the train, through the wilds of Idalio, ^^'y()ming• (where we 
 used to get otf and bid the train God S])eed and liiki' until we caught 
 u)) to it) and Nebraska, into Iowa and then into Chicago, where we 
 sneaked u]) through the stock yards at the dead of night, and then 
 merrily chooed onward without sto]) out ])ast Lhe (iold Dust Twin 
 factory, and oh I ( I actually wept tears at this point) ; I even smelled the 
 echoes of the College Inn, and that's all the good it did me. Adolpli 
 Levy Bloch was sleeping in a very accommodating up})er berth that 
 night, I, having faithfully promised old Adolph that I would wake him 
 up and show him Chicago. Nearing old Chi, Adolph crept (I speak kind- 
 ly when I say crept) down into the lower and saw Chicago, from my 
 window, Adolph was terribh- impressed with old Chicago, and I can 
 
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 see his sniilini;' face, still, g-lowino; with ))ridf at tlu' lovfliness. of the 
 immensitv of (■vtrytliiiii>:. and the t>olden o])])ortunities hehiiid thein. 
 
 Next mom we wrre speeding ))ast Toh'do and all the iaetory girls 
 were waving:, and all the Base Hospital Xo. Ki men were hcii-inning 
 to realize that they were at last in the Kast. That night we pulhd 
 into Buffalo and ('land MCarty innnediately decided th.at it was liigh 
 time to look over tlir world. Next morning we had taken in Seraiiton, 
 and \^'iIkes-Barre. and wa\- points, and were sliding in as nsti.al into 
 old New York. New York was most interesting. We landed at TeMatly 
 and walked up the mot faseinating hill towards a camp that was 
 laheled Merritt. (perh;i|)s yon are familiar with it). 
 
 After Lewis, (amp .Merritt was (juite a eome down. No more did ve 
 have the eool evenings with old Rainier looking down at yon from a 
 distanee. no more did we have the tir trees, and shrnhs and greens. In- 
 stead it was hot. and stieky. and dusty, and deeidedly crowded, and 
 the earlv i)art of suaimer was certainly living up to its former rejnita- 
 tion. There were always herds of olive drahhed individuals coming 
 into cam]), or going out. ami they didn't come in there i)y hundreds, 
 thev were heing shi])p;'d in hy thousands. 
 
 .Merritt was a series of inspei'tions. rush, making numerons |)assenger 
 lists, getting orders, lia, ing tiiem innnediately resc-iiuled. ho])ing to 
 get to New York and iH)t getting to go, and little slee]). Yon woidd 
 liaxc howled with delight to s'c officers insj)ecting clothing (the hig ide.n 
 vou kiu)W is to issue K(iuipment (' to the men. tiuii guard it carefully 
 until you reach Merritt. then tear up several of tlu' garnu'iits and cross 
 the ])ond. and get half of your e(iui])UU"Pt taken away from you. and 
 receive some very fine salvage clothes froni then on. Oh. well. It 
 was most amusing and instructing to see our former dentists and doc- 
 tors .icting as ins)>ecting geiu'rals at Mv-rritt, and coiulenuiing clothing. 
 I would hint that the\- are far hetter in their own line than as clothes 
 merchants. 
 
 One morning ahout .'> a. m after working most of the night, old Base 
 No. i(j folded up her tents and silently s]i)))ied away down the road 
 to the tram for an .\tlantie port. Sergeant Schneider was harking 
 around trying to act as transportation man and having a most awful 
 time with it all. as it was a rainy night, and somtdiow his little twigs 
 were not the steadiest in the world. One of the generals of the eamp 
 mistook him for ;i second lieutenant while all the rumpus was going on, 
 and so merely smiled and went on. But, really, it was awful the lan- 
 guage the sergeant was forced to use in order to get all the hags and 
 haggage on the way. 
 
76 On x\tTivE Servh E 
 
 We landed in New York around twenty-third street and sat on tlie 
 docks for se-ver-i-al hours, watching everybody else climb aboard the 
 liner. After everybody else was nicely placed, we climbed on and were 
 assigned all the way from A deck to Q. The ship in question was a 
 Britisli bark by the name of Missauahic. But why they ever wished it 
 on us, I've never been quite able to understand. The trip was very de- 
 lightful. Wonderful meals of the finest British quality, delightfully 
 well ventilated quarters, extremely ))olite English eocknies. and a most 
 charming ensemble of casual units that had just been released, a])par- 
 ently from Sing Sing. 
 
 The tri]) was one that will never he forgotten hy any of the enlisted 
 men of the unit. ));irtieular]y those who suffered the pangs of munsoni- 
 tis. Imagine, if you can. a cunning little room about two by four, with 
 absolutely no ventilation, inhabited by all shajjes and sizes of animals 
 of the micro-organic world, and the entire place permeated with that 
 elegant dampness peculiar only to state rooms that are several yards 
 below the submarine firing line. 
 
 We had the ])leasure of being the unit in charge of the sick on tlie 
 boat, and nearby were the chief surgeon's offices. A hospital office 
 and infirmary were established at one end of the vessel with Sergeants 
 Rosenthal and Watkins in charge. And around the corner, old Doe 
 Wing. Armfield and Hudson ran the hospital. Several of the bretliren 
 of the unit nearly went West during the voyage, and those that could 
 navigate weren't any too spry on their feet The pleasant ])art of all 
 this is th.at some of our sea dogs, such as Munson and Sackrider. and 
 all the others wlio h)ved the water will soon have to make the tri]) 
 back again. 
 
 The Misscnuihir Wi-is in a convoy of thirteen vessels and when you 
 weren't flunking about the meals coming up, you really had quite a 
 sight gazing over the horizon and seeing the sight. The course will 
 never be definitely known, but as near as we could figure out. we 
 started for South Carolina and then zig-zagged off in a dash for Ice- 
 land. The trip was uneventful from a submarine standpoint and we 
 sighted British destroyers the morning of the twenty-first of June. 
 Around midnight the lights of Ireland were sighted, and the next dawn 
 brought forth the sunny outlines of the Britisli Isles. We pushed along 
 through the Irish Sea and anchored in Liverpool harbor about 10:30 
 that evening. 
 
 The next morning we were up bright and early to gaze upon tliat 
 famous city, and all day long we were permitted to gaze, as all we did 
 was to wander up and down the harbor with the tugs or the tide and 
 
\\'iTH Base Ho-simtal Forty-Six 77 
 
 wonder what the big idea was. That night we were towed into one of 
 the docks and owing to the length of tlie day, we were i)ermitted to 
 gaze at three sides of a doek until 1 1 :.'5() p. ni. hv daylight. 
 
 Next morning wr started to get on dry land again. After waiting 
 around all morning and most of the afternoon, we finally marched oft" 
 to the Liverpool station and there embarked on a train bound for 
 Southampton. The Liverpool Royal Something or Otlur Band wel- 
 comed us at the station with a pathetic attempt at Yank ragtime, and 
 although Lm sure they meant well by it, it was a wierd inter))retation 
 of "There's a Sneaky Feeling Comes Roujid My Heart." 
 
 After an all-night ride, we landed in Southampton, marched up the 
 streets ])ast (piaint little taverns and shops, and passed handsome 
 homes, and finally landed at one of those far-famed rest cami)s. Well, 
 between roii.s ct inoi, it was a mighty handsome location, but tb.at's 
 about all I care to say about life there. After a two-day rest we 
 paraded down to the docks and took the boat for Cherbourg. 
 
 As 1 remember it. most of us slept in hat racks, eurled around venti- 
 lators, or in life boats that night. I sup])ose the trip was rough and 
 ])ossibly there was submarine danger, but we were .ill so tired from the 
 last rest cam]) that we slcjit as if in the royal suite at the Benson. Art 
 Mouse even forgot to yell. "All new men fall in." ami Munson was too 
 sleepy to be seasick 
 
 We had had troubles witli Knglish finance, but when they began to 
 throw francs at us at Clierhourg. we all got tired and let the natives do 
 the counting for us. We had a ])leasant twent\'-four hours' stay at 
 Clierl)ourg and then got on a train and pulled out for parts unknown. 
 Inasuuich as the (iermans were "strafing" Paris at that time, we were 
 routed south towards the S))anisli border, and after three days' r.am- 
 blings we landed in our present location. The trip by train througli 
 France was a howling success. We all tried out our prep school French, 
 and had a speeial train that was really above the average. In fact, 
 after hearing about the cattle cars some of the A. F.. F. are shipped 
 on. I'm mighty glad that I toured arouiul with Base cjuarante-six. 
 
 1 w.is rudely awakened in tlie early hours of July second by romp- 
 ing footsteps on the roofs of the coaches. Bob Brinker and Stamulis 
 Doukas were frolicking in the morning air ami congratulating them- 
 selves upon arriving in such a classy looking mountain resort. (You 
 see, it looked that way then in the early summer, with all the trees 
 green, and the early mist resembling hot springs and the colored roofs 
 of the little village of Bazoilles s])arkling through the mist). Merle 
 
78 On A( TivE Service 
 
 Cain})hfll and otlurs I could luciition were sniilino- at the large friendly 
 sign "American Bar!" Even th.' toj) kicker, our little smiling Ricli.ard. 
 seemed eager to get over into the town for some reason or other. But 
 here, gentle reader, let me disillusion you. The American Bar ])roved 
 to be a cafeteria and not a cafe, and although to this day we occasion- 
 ally wander thereabouts it is not the favorite haunt of the })()]iulace. 
 
 We embarked and marched up to our first quarters, and immediattly 
 got ready to become a regular hospital of the A. E. F. At this tinie. 
 there were onlv two other units in the center. Base Hospital Xo IS and 
 Base Hospital Xo. 1 Hi. the former from Johns Hopkins Universit 
 atid the latter a Xew York unit. Now that there are seven units in th(' 
 center we feel (]uit',' ancient and are always glad to give advice to new 
 units just arriving. But back in those early days, oh, daddie I 
 
 We worked for about three weeks cleaning up the gutters and build- 
 ing sidewalks, until we favored organizing working men's unions; then 
 one day the powers shipped us over the river into a very well land- 
 scaped group of buildings, next door to Base Hosjiital Xo. 18, that 
 had been formerly ()ccu])ied by an evacuation hospital. I'rom then on 
 the hos])ital became one in the real sense. 
 
 The various de})artments were organized and in reality an equivalent 
 to a corporation with its departments, and sub-departments. Thoi 
 came our first convoy of |)atients. This was back in the days when 
 Chateau Thierry was in the center of the spot, and Base Hospital Xo. 
 46 is .surely proud to have had the privilege of caring for many of the 
 men that were in that famous drive that was the start of the fight th.it 
 finished things for our contem])orary of the House of Hohenzollern. 
 
 OIK TRAIN AT BAZOII.LES 
 STATION' 
 
^^'^^II Bask Hospital FoHT^"-SIx 79 
 
 Tlu- coii\o\s c'oiitiiiucd to (oiiic. Tlurc were periods wlirii the arrivil 
 of j)ati(_'nts were at aii\- time, day or iii<ilit. ami tlit re \v;rc periods when 
 tlu'V seemed to iie\tr stop. litre. I miiflit say sometliiiii!,- that is ii(> 
 idh- Hatterw \\''lieiie\(r ther,- was any work to do the men of t'lc 
 enlisted jxrsonn. I were always on the joh; merely ;i word or sugt>'estioii 
 that siu'h and sueli was to he done was sufficient. And it is a pleasure 
 to sav that at no time was it e\ cr necessary to keep ;i eheck on what 
 men were on the job when the rush of convoys and patients were tre- 
 mendous. The men of Base No. Ki knew where there was important 
 work to he done, that it iiad to he done, and they were only too j^'larl to 
 he there, with the goods, when it came to taking care of the men from 
 Chateau-Thierry. St. .Mihiel. or the Argoime. 
 
 There are so manv things that should he written ahout the ditterenc 
 phta.ses of the detachment, that it is hard to know where to Ixgin anfl 
 where to end. ^Ou ha\f the life in the village, the men at their work in 
 the manv (lepartn)ents. the men as individuals, and what not. Hut tnis 
 article wants to bring out in addition to a brief resume of the way 
 the unit arri\fd o\ersea.s, the various characteristics of the men. so 
 that when \()U sit down with the youngster and in the years to eonv 
 \ou ma\' hear a name and from that you may relate an entire evening's 
 \arn .about this man or that. 
 
 liase Hos|)ital No. 1() has at present for its bugler a roly-poly ya)) 
 b\- the name of I)onle\\'. who answers to the name of Don. W hen Don 
 isn't waking us up with his infernal rev.eilles and calls for this or that, 
 he's writing poetry. Don writes for all state e\ents. such as Thanks- 
 gi\ing. Nurses' 'I'e.a i'ights. and other such gatiurings. And .ilthough 
 usiialh' these epics bring tears to the eyes, the parodies and cracks -".i; 
 tile different men in the (htaehment are far from ordinary. I believe 
 that I will steal a little of Don s thunder and. although I don't propose 
 to write a set of hrics. I'm going to ask you if you recall anything 
 .about certain in(ii\ iduals th.at lui about to mention. 
 
 \i)[i c.an ha\c xour setting anvwhere xou like, but for reasons ob\ ious. 
 the logical plai'c is where evcrylxxh' is sure to be foniui. namely the 
 mess hall. Speaking of messes, I ne\ cr rtall\- understood why they 
 called it uiess, until I saw old Shagren .and Hughes i at their first meal. 
 Old Moonfaced Perkins has alwa\s made the meals seem like the real 
 .irticle so th.at we alwa\s speak of going to breakfast, or lunch oi" 
 dinner, and rarely to mess. IJul one day I happened to gl.ince .at little 
 I'.Ncrctt Hughes, and then almost in the same breath at Sergeant I'irst 
 Class Sha.gren. Header, did vou e\ cr go into Dayton s I).air\- l.unch 
 
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 Room in Portland and hapijcn to trv to fight flhows with some of the 
 rivet boilermakers that cluster there around ti :()() a. m.? Well, you can 
 then thoroughly appreciate friends Hughes and Shagren. These men 
 will go down as immortals in the archives of Base Hospital No. i^» 
 as the most i)owerful contenders for the (ilutton Tro])hy. 
 
 And while we are on the subject of Hughes and Shagren, Inc., lee 
 me introduce to you Sergeant Hughes' other job, that of first violinist 
 of the Bazoilles Symphony Orchestra. The reason he got the ])ositioit 
 was because where there are orchestras there is also f(>dder. 
 
 I have had an awful time with first sergeants since the unit was 
 organized. First they gave me a chemist. Well, you know chemists are 
 like doctors and architects, very good scouts socially, very skilh-d in 
 their own line, but terribly hard to keep track of. You know how a 
 l)hysician's office used to look like in the old days before he had a girl 
 to keep the ])lace spruced up? You know how sweetly she could say to 
 you, "Why, Dr. Jones is out now, won't you make an ai)pointment for," 
 and so forth. Well, little Richard John Werner, of Esparto. O. A. C. 
 Oregon City, and Minnesota was just like that. Always when seven 
 majors, two colonels, and a hundred enlisted men were looking for him, 
 one would find him calmly sipping chocolate with a pretty little auburn 
 haired luirse in a ward. Either that or making divinity fudge in an- 
 other. And then his corres))ondence. But, I'm afraid that if I say to<^ 
 much. I'll get Richard in wrong with some of the nurses so I'll ring 
 off. All joking aside, Richard is surely to be congratulated upon the 
 way he won the confidence of the men from the start. It was a distinct 
 pleasure to take an order from him. It was almost enjoyable to get u)» 
 and stand reveille just to see that smile. And now as an officer in the 
 Sanitary Corjis. and as Detachment Commander, he is serving in th-^ 
 same happy capacity and in this case it is as well the man as the uni- 
 form we salute. 
 
 When Dick became a lieutenant, the powers presented me with a 
 new top kicker, that was formerly chairman of welcome at the unit's 
 convalescent camp. Art House had had the difficult job of handling ths; 
 multitude of men that were passed the ward and bed stage, and readv 
 to navigate a bit. But not ready to return to duty. He handled this 
 well, and in return when the camp was evacuated, shortly after the 
 armistice, Arthur was elected to the Chocolate Drinkers' Union, and 
 became the first sergeant. Arthur handled the position long held by 
 smiling Dick, extremely well, through the period when we were all 
 prone to relax and start the query about "Wlhen do we go home?' 
 Shortlv before Christmas Sergeant House departed on a furlough to 
 
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 81 
 
 Soutlurn I'"raii('c and Serjeant ]-Mrst ("l.iss ("laud McCarty was slat^'ci 
 to fill tilt' job. "Mc' is a soldier in all the word implies, a man of fo'ir 
 jirevious enlistments, and with the vast knowledg'e of the different 
 wavs, means, and by-laws of the service. To get aetjuainted with "M-' ' 
 is liy no means easy at first, but after you know him. you'll find him to 
 be the best-hearted, cleverest individual you could imagine. "Me" 
 hails from Kentucky .ind his knowledge of wh.at a gentleman refiuires 
 is in kee()ing with his army knowledge. You cant hear a man in th- 
 unit that hasn't the highest regard for him. and between you and un- 
 I'm glad to see the lanky Wyoming-Kentueki.in given a chance to 
 show them how to run a detachment. Anyhow I vv had quite a time 
 with my toj) cutters, but personally I've h.ad a greater sorrow thati 
 th.'it. I should ha\c l)een given the o])portunity of showing my ability 
 by being allowed to take my little tyj^ewriter in one j)aw, a service 
 record in the other, and dash madly over the top under heavy sliel' 
 fire. The to))s would never allow this, so hence J'xc never gone A. W . 
 O. I,.; that is. to any great extent. 
 
 One of the remarkable groups of men we have with ns is that set 
 who a})parently have considerable quantity of lead in their pockets 
 These gentlemen, who are very few in number, for which the detach- 
 ment office thanks all the Saints and anyone else concerned, have the 
 most skillful means of evading the issue by calmly getting sick. King 
 of this clul) is the famous (rlickerman C'udlipp. Doc was a dentist in 
 ei\ilian life, but in accordance with most of his tribe, can do little else 
 but ))ull tcv'tli. Doc has guarded the royal destrover. h;is acted as 
 
 Left— M;\iii Street of BM/i)illes. Center — Airplane. .Snapshnt froii 
 Kiirlit — Boolie ^ris()ner.•^ Mar<'liinsr to Mess 
 
82 On Active Service 
 
 orderly, but when placed on general fatigue work, he immediately 
 resorted to the sacred silence of the wards and therein with his field 
 medical card, reposed for weeks at a time in bed. comfortably wonder 
 ing why he was in the army. Second only to Doe C'udli))]) comes Danit 1 
 F. McEwen. "Mc" has the difficult job of doing nothing all day but 
 make up a solution for dressings. He usually gets that done for th-j 
 day by 9:15 a. m.. and of course that gives him time to spend with tlu 
 nurses, and plan where he can tour to after dinner. You see, wi 
 wouldn't have noticed it so much, but "Mc" had a distinct hatred for 
 reveille, and so we inquired into the nature of his hite liours. and heijce 
 the deep truth. There are others, but we don't want to be too cynical, 
 because no matter how famous some of these gentlemen are, they are 
 really blamed good scouts, so you hate to tell everybody about their 
 army career. 
 
 Oh, we have the greatest collection of men you ever saw. "Soapy 
 (tus,'' who runs the clothing department with the able assistance of the 
 Weils, and the Munsons, and the Blackjacks. We have that fellow 
 Johnson, who, when not standing guard over the coveted chocolate pot. 
 is guarding the fudge output during his strenuous rounds of the wards. 
 We have the wild and rabid Bolsheviks, mainly composed of Raymond, 
 Washington, the medical blockery, where you right for supplies ranging 
 from potassium sulphate to a scratch pad ; the guard house, where tl:e 
 wicked A. W. O. L'ers are held, and where the Durham flows most 
 freely as well as aqua fortis, whether it be fro.n Horse Newman or 
 Puss Greene; and we have the registrar with K. O. \\'atkins wandering 
 around tr3'ing to find out why Keeler hasn't done all his work as well 
 as his own. And we have further, the Cuckoo Shop, witii all the many 
 cooks, eating their tenderloins, while we ate the bully beef, with the 
 funny little Millers, the operatic Troglia, the billiken Higgason. We 
 have Kimzey, who deals in death, and then tells you in the next breath 
 the latest gossip of the center; and the quartermaster with its riftee?) 
 non coins and lU) work to do. And Forbes Thes|)ian Orr. the \A'easel 
 Greenwood, Bill Nimes Smith, The Rice Eating Jaj) Thomas, Willie 
 Tiller, Toothless Jerry C'arnathan, and many others. It's a great 
 bunch, a happy one, and an interesting one. 
 
 Now that you've had a few names thrown at you. reader, old scout, 
 there's one man that ought to have an entire story by himself, and 
 that is Hospital Sergeant Jay Russell Coffey. All friends of Base No. 
 Hi Know him and ail the men are familiar with his smiling face, and 
 knov/ tiiat the work and success of the unit are onlv second to th-it of 
 
^^'ITl^ Hash 1 losi'ir a i, I'Ok ^^ Six 
 
 8.S 
 
 I.itiiti ii;;iit Colonel Yciiiuy. Most of the incii know. too. that it wr-a 
 CoH'cv who worked from the sun.nier of 1 !) I 7 to the day of niobiliza,- 
 li.)ii on the affairs of the nnit. and it was throujih him that the miit 
 secured .such eiiiciency in organization, develoi)ment. and results. Up 
 until the time that sickness forced Sergeant Coffey to leave the unit in 
 October. 1})1S. he was the presiding genius oxtr the \arious de))art- 
 meiits. and he not onl\- knew the thirty or so de])artments that he helped 
 develo)), hut he continued to know them. It was to he regretted tha: 
 Cotf'cv could not return to the States with us as an oflieer. for hi.s work 
 thoroughh demonstrated him to he of that ealiher. 
 
 Now then, reader. gi\e the old daxcnport a punch, throw the ciga- 
 rette butt in the fire, and forget liazoilles, forget the mud, and dirt, 
 aiul the fuiniy little ])laccs in the village. Forget the things you didn't 
 like to do o\ er there in I'rance. get up and stretch. ])ick up the phone 
 and call up The .Multiu)niah. and reserve a table for you and little 
 friend wife. Take her down there, enjoy a regular feed, dance a little, 
 .and drink a toast in loganberry Juice to the old detachment of Base 
 Ho.spital No. K). You see. reader, it's 1920 something now. and the 
 war is all history, and in concluding 1 11 simply say, as our friend 
 K. C. H. does, 
 
 •1 THANK YOU. ' 
 
 SERCiT. FIRST CLASS W.M. 1). FKNTON 
 
 WINIKK .'^CF.NK HA/Oll ,1 ,K.S VAI.I.EV 
 
84 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 ADJUTANT'S OFFICE 
 
 HE otiifc of tile Adjutant is tlu- oftiot- least known to thr 
 hulk of the j)frsoniicl within the hospital, and the only 
 one known outside the hospital at G. H. Q. Througl'. 
 this office passes all the executive business of the organi- 
 zation, and in this office most of it starts. Anyone who 
 has the least idea of the volume of correspondence it takes to run an 
 army hospital, knows that this means a great deal of work. Often th< 
 typewriters have been clicking and the telephone ringing in the 
 Adjutant's office between taps and reveille when the barracks lights 
 were out and all good soldiers were in. 
 
 To the man who came to this office with a bit of official business, the 
 little room seemed bathed in harmony and traiKjuility, and few there 
 were who realized that the apparent calm was rather the tense stillness 
 of the storm center. The Adjutant's office, be it known, besides being 
 the clearing house for all official business, was the official shock-absorber 
 of the unit. All troubles, whatever their nature, found a natural resting 
 place there. Whether a convalescent Highlander in kilts tried to drink 
 up all the cognac in Bazoilles. or a French maid left the dishes un- 
 washed to go promenading in the moonlight, or the night nurse i i 
 Ward No. 8 found that there was no wood for the stove or a tired 
 soldier went to sleep at his post — or whate\t'r the difficulty was — it 
 was straightened out in the Adjutant's office. 
 
 When Base Ki moved into France and settled down, temporarily, on 
 the wrong side of the Meuse, the office force consisted of Cai)tain Dille- 
 hunt. Adjutant; Jay Coffey, Sergeant-Major ; Sergeants Shujje anri 
 Goldsmith aiul ('or])oral Richardson, general utility men; aiul Privates 
 
 ':m^^^^ 
 
 >%M 
 
 ADMlMSlKA HON HL'l 1,1)1 \(i 
 
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 "Dukr Doiikas and "Hohlur ' Hriiikcr. orderlies, 'riiiiijis hegaii lia)' 
 peiiino- inmu'diatelv, among the first of tlieni lieiiio- the removal of " K) ' 
 to its ))ernianeiit (|uarters. As usual tli;' Adjutant's ortice liad to 
 straighten things out and diseo\er why the men were ex))ected to leave 
 e\cr\'thing spick and span \\hile the hrooms were under lock and ke\' 
 
 Shortly after tlii' re-estahlishmenl was accomplished. Lieutenant 
 Frank Steiner. S. ('.. relieved Captain Dillehunt as Adjutant. Liv-utcn- 
 ant Steiner l)rouglit to the oHice the rough-and-ready ettieieiicy of I- 
 years of army lifi-. during which time he had served in C'uha. the Phil- 
 ippines, nnd Mexico, and in the ottice of the Chief Surgeon of th." 
 Western l)e])artment. in San I'rancisco. His practical knowledge and 
 ability were of innneasurahle assistance to the imit during its "rooky ' 
 period in France. His (juiek-action erticiency can Ixst he siiown bv .•; 
 typical episode. 
 
 "l^crk Perkins, the mess sergeant, awoke one inorning to the realiza 
 tion that the hos])ital had outgrown its kitchen, and through the proper 
 military channels he sought two more stoves wherewith to cook for 
 1 ()()() hungry patients. The mess department was unable to do anything 
 about it. The (Quartermaster was helpless. The Medical Department 
 said the unit had received its quota of stoves. So in desperation "Perk ' 
 ap])ealed to Lieutenant Steiner. 
 
 "I'm going to look into the matter." said the Adjutant. The next 
 day a truck backed u|) to the kitchen and dropped off two full-size 
 army ranges. 
 
 The original enlisted personnel of the shock-absorber ottice contiinu'd 
 until early October, when ,)ay Coffey, the first Sergeant-Major of the 
 unit, was put through S. C. J). ])roeec dings ami sent home to reeu])erate. 
 The "fin" bacillus and the enteritis bug. combined with the chill, damj) 
 weather of a French autunm in the \'osges. ])roved too much for him 
 .and he was unable to keep it U}). It was a sad blow to Coffey to be 
 obliged to gi\f up the work. He had devoted himself to it. without 
 compensation, from the time Base Hospital Ki ga\-e its first erv and 
 looked up in the doctor's face, and it was an e(|ually sad blow to the 
 men he left in I''ranee to continue the work he had started. 
 
 \ irgil ."^hupe. who had iieen made a Sergeant while on the hi<i-h 
 seas, and a Sergeant, b'irst Class, in August, succeeded to Coffey's 
 position, and conducted the office with an aliility that won him the rank 
 of Hospital Sergeant within a month. 
 
 "Herb" Goldsmith distinguished himself from the first b\- an un- 
 canny familiarity with all the general orders and special orders, and 
 
86 On AcTivK Skrvic E 
 
 inciiioranda, and hulletiii.s from G. H. Q. His ability as a sourct- ot" 
 gfiKTal inforinatioii. and his j)ost of vantagt^ near the door made 
 "Herb" the recijiient of thousands of foolisli (luestions. whicli taxed his 
 sanny di.s))osition to the utmost. 
 
 Paul Richardson, the little corporal of the place, hatl two special 
 jobs. He was the official librarian and the night watchman. When 
 he was not doing anything else, he could check u]) the books in the 
 case, and at night he had to slcc]) with the tele])hone at his elbow. It 
 was upon his ability to wake up when the bell rang that the safety 
 of the unit de})ended. theoretically, when warning of an air raid was 
 received at the center, and it was his pleasant duty to wake the hospital 
 up wlien a convoy arrived. 
 
 To Brinker, Doukas. and later Mclntyre. the orderlies, falls the 
 credit for delivering the precious and voluminous paper work of Base 
 Ki safely in the proper hands at Hosjiital Center. A. P. (). Xo. T.'^l. 
 Only once in the history of the unit, did documents seriously go astray, 
 and that wasn't the fault of the orderlies. 
 
 "The "gone but not forgotten" consisted of a box containing all the 
 precious letters written to and from Base Ki between the first stages 
 of its inception to the time of its departure from Cam)) Lewis. From 
 Camp Lewis to Camp Merritt, thence to Liverpool, and thence to Soutli- 
 ampton. the precious box was never out of sight of its guardians. But 
 when the little channel steamer arrived at Cherbourg, it was gone, 
 and what is more, it is still A. W. O. L. unless Sergeant Shu])e has 
 dro])ped it as a deserter. The loss was irreparable, but what a bless- 
 ing in disguise it proved to the office force ! From that time on, when- 
 ever an ancient document was wanted innnediatelv and was not to be 
 found. Goldsmith would lean over his desk, fix the inquiring officer 
 with a sorrowful eye and reply. "I beg your pardon, sir, but it was 
 in the box that <>-ot lost." 
 
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 87 
 
 THE REGISTRARS OFFKK 
 
 HF RF{iLSTRAR'S office of a base hospital is the- place 
 wli.rc all tlir records ot" the j^atients are kept. To the 
 uninitiated, this definition may suggest a lot of drv 
 hookkeeping. hut in }^ase K) the work was far from 
 that. There was never a more vital and interesting set 
 of records ke])t anywhere, and the men of the registrar's office will tell 
 you so. Incidt>ntally, General Information had his headquarters here, 
 and the answer was always ready for such (juestions as the number of 
 days spent in the hosjiital by a chlorine-gas patient, the death rate of 
 ])ncunioni.i. or Private John Johnson's identification number and middle 
 initial. 
 
 When Base Hospital l(j imaded I'raiiee and mired down, so to speak, 
 at A. P. (). ~M. the registr.'ir's office was given to C'a]>tain Otis B. 
 ^^'ight (now Major) to do with as he saw fit. Much of the crerlit for 
 the work of this office is due to the original Registrar. It was he who 
 organized the system, assigned each man to his task, and then did 
 most of the work himself until the system ran uiuh'r its own power. 
 
 In the small hours of the morning when Forty-six received its first 
 historic eonxoy of ))atients. the work of making a clinical record for 
 each ]),itient was done liy Capt/iin Wight and Private Stelsel. "Garrv" 
 pounded the typewriter, and the ('ai)tain dictated to him. This was the 
 situation in the earl\- davs when the Reoistrar himself was the onlv 
 
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 I'KK.>^()NNF.I.— KKC^.ISTKARS OFFICE 
 
S8 Ox Active Service 
 
 man in tlir ottirr who fully unck-rstood the (litifrt-ncc between "tacliy- 
 eardia" and "t'raetured tibia. " 
 
 The work of the otfiec was first of all organized into four distinct 
 departments: statistics, siek-and-wounded records, evacuations, and 
 S. C. D. proceedings. William Irvine, Sergeant First Class, was 
 placed in charge and entrusted with a general supervision and co- 
 ordination of all departments. .lohn Samuel was given the statistical 
 department, with Westering as his assistant. Sergeant Watkins and 
 Stelsel took care of the "S. and W." Keeler, as connnander of the 
 evacuation department, was responsible for getting patients out of the 
 hospital when an empty train pulled into the center, or word was 
 flashed over the wires that there was room for a few hundred medical 
 or surgical cases at some hospital center farther back behind the lines. 
 Stinson was told off to kee]) track of the doings of the S. C. I), board. 
 
 Gradually the men in each department learned their own branch 
 of the work, and the office began to run like a good machine. Irvine, 
 1)\- nature an instructor and systeniatizer, was expecting a call to 
 other fields where lie could have another "rookie" unit to break in, 
 and trained Watkins as his successor. Samuel and Westering learned 
 all the forms of their dej^artment by heart. Stelsel became such a 
 wizard at diagnosis and "S. and ^^^" work in general that he could 
 write the worst jaw-breakers in the medical dictionary without looking 
 at the keys, and could even tell what some of the long words meant. 
 Keeler learned to slip ^200 patients out of the hospital on twenty 
 minutes' notice, ^^'llen the order specified a certain number each of 
 "sitters ' and "litters." he always made the lunnber come out right, if 
 he liad to take a convalescent's clothes away from him and send him 
 out on a streteiier. Stinson learned to put a ])atient tln-ough disability 
 proceedings without even hurting his feelings, and in short, the 
 registrar's office was running so smoothly in a short time that a convoy 
 of 300 ])atients at 2 o'clock in the morning was a mere ripple in the 
 stream. 
 
 ^^'lten everything was going nicely. Captain Wight was succeeded by 
 Lieutenant Frank Steiner, S. C., who was also Adjutant of the hos- 
 pital. Irvine was transferred to Langres and soon thereafter became a 
 Second Fieutenant, S. C, and Watkins became the non-com. in charge. 
 Stelsel took full charge of the "S. and W.," Fred \Mnte was added to 
 the office force as his assistant, and Wayne ^^'illiams was drafted into 
 the statistical department as filing clerk. 
 
With Base Hospitai. Forty-Six 
 
 SI) 
 
 As the routiiii' settled down .•ii;aiii under the new arrauiic incuts, the, 
 Anierieau drixt-s at St. .Mihiel and \'erdun started. an(] tlie Argonne 
 Wood began to take its toll, lousiness at Bazoilles grew by lea])s antl 
 Iieunds The surgery ran night and day. the mess di-partnient served 
 jueals at all hours, the hospital was tilled, emptied, and filled again in 
 rapid succession, and the registrar's office came in for its full share 
 of tile work. In these strenuous times there were few hours for sleep 
 between events, and none for recreation, but the office force kept up 
 i-'omeliow. as did the rest of the unit, and the work did not suffer. If 
 the war hadn't been called off. though, thev would ha\f had to build 
 another room fOr the records. 
 
 They were all "regular t'ellows." this gang of the registrar's office. 
 Tliey had this in eonunon with the rest of the American Armw that thev 
 e.^uld work hard, and at the same time enjoy life to the full limit of 
 llie regulations. Their spirits ne\ cr lagged, even when the pressure 
 Avas the highest. That thiir work was good is shown b\' the f/iet that 
 of all the ~)7 Aarieties of forms and reports the\- turned out dailv. 
 weekly and monthly, none ever came back from (i. H. (^.. or tht; 
 Chief Surgeon s office. 
 
 It was re})orted from the Hos])ital Center that Hase [6 turned out 
 the best pa])er work in .\. I*. (). 7'>1. ."ind as good work as any hospital 
 in the A. E. I*. He that as it may. tlu' fact remains that the efficiency 
 of the registrar s office was u|) to the standard of Hase Hos])itaI No. I(i. 
 It was some standard, too. 
 
 HOSl'TTAI. STREET 
 
90 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 RECEIVING AND EVACUATIXG DEPARTMENT 
 
 RECEIVING OFFICER 
 
 Auriiri! S. Uosentei.i). First l,t., M. C. 
 
 STAFF OF EXA.MIXIXC; PHYSICIAN'S 
 
 Otto Koch, :\lMJor, :M. C. Austin Wood, First Lt., M. C. 
 
 Lawrence Selling, Capt., M. C. Hartley Mars, First I.t., M. C. 
 
 John T. Daves, First I.t., M. C. 
 
 ENLISTED FERSONXEI. 
 
 Bert J. Rosenthal, Sgt., First Cla> 
 Vincent J. Collins, C])l. 
 Irving Olson, Pvt., First Class 
 
 Fred .M. Franklin, Pvt., First Clds- 
 John A. Cleaienson, Pvt., First Class 
 Leo H. Creenwood, Pvt., First Class 
 
 EC"EI\ IN(> and tvacuatino- patients in an army liospital 
 of two tl'.ousaiid bcd.s })rcsciits a problem far different 
 from that of civil hospitals. In the latter, patients arc 
 admita'd singly or in small gronps ; in the former, they 
 come in by the luindreds and must be handled quickly 
 and accurately. Our first efforts in establishing this dejiartmcnt were 
 directed towards a survey of the buildings and equipment allotted to 
 u.s, and toward mapping out on paper diagrammatically, a scheme that 
 we thought would meet the emergency. As is usual in such cases, how- 
 ever, the theoretical situation does not measure up to the practical 
 needs, and so we were destined to learn by cxjiericnce wherein the 
 mistakes lav. 
 
 In general, cases reached the hospital in tlnv e ways. I'amely: (1) by 
 hospital trains; (-2) by motor ambulance convoy, and (,'?) as "casuals." 
 The distribution and apportioning of patients to the various hospitals 
 of our group was directed from a central evacuation office. This office 
 also designated one hospital which was to act as admitting hospital for 
 local cases on each day of the week. The hosjiital trains which brought 
 patients from the advanced evacuation and field hos]iitals generally 
 had a capacity of four to six hundred patients, depending upon the 
 type of case; that is, whether "sitters" or "litters." Upon arrival at 
 the center, the patients were detrained from the car wards by an un- 
 loading detail comjirised of a quota of men from each hospital in the 
 center. The motor ambulances and trucks of the Motor Transport 
 Cor]is were waiting at the station and immediately began the haul 
 to the hospitals designated for receiving patients. As soon as an 
 
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 91 
 
 1. Sitting Patients. 2. Shower Baths. 3. Ainbuhuice Convoy. -1. Stretcher Patients. 
 3. Sitting Patient.s .\rrivinK at Reteivin? Ward. 6. Sitters Lcaviiijr 
 
92 On Active Service 
 
 ambulaiicf had nnptied its load at the rccfiving ward it was re- 
 t-quipped with litters and blankets to re]>lace those taken with the 
 patients and sent back for another load. 
 
 .Motor ambulance convoys were nuich smaller than hospital train 
 convovs and were used to bring i)atients from nearby camps and 
 hospitals. They averaged about fifteen ambulances carrying fifty to 
 sixtv patients. "Casuals" came to us in single ambulances or on foot 
 and consisted chiefly of men from nearby billets or from organizations 
 moving up to the front and passing through our camp. 
 
 To handle })atients in the receiving department a permanent staff 
 was used, consisting of five examining officers and five of the personnel. 
 In addition, the detachment office was asked to supply us with a detail 
 of twenty to sixty men depending on the size of the convoy and the 
 lunnber of litter cases. Notice of the arrival of a convoy was given 
 bv the bugle call "Assembly," at which signal our entire detail reported 
 at the receiving ward. As far as possible, each man was given the 
 same assignment for each convoy, so as to facilitate the smooth and 
 careful handling of the patients. Each man's post, however trivial, 
 was a cog in the machinery which, if clogged, upset the entire 
 mechanism. 
 
 Our plans called for the separate handling of "sitters" and "litters." 
 The "sitter" cases came up in large truck loads of thirty or more 
 and were admitted at the far end of the building. They were regist- 
 ered, undressed, examined, difi'erentiated as to their underlying condi- 
 tions and as to the ])resence or absence of "cooties," deloused, if nec- 
 essary, assigned to wards, bathed and clothed in fresh hospital gar- 
 ments. Tlieir clothes were put in sacks, labelled, sent to the "Cootie 
 Kitchen" for sterilizing and later put in the clothing and efi'ccts 
 building in separate bins. Most of this work was done in the bath house 
 whicli was joined to the receiving ward by a covered runway. As the 
 men passed through this runway, they were registered and given a 
 serial number. It was arranged so that a steady procession of patients 
 entered at one end of the building and left at the other, whence they 
 were conducted to the wards. 
 
 The "litter" cases were unloaded from the ambulances at the near 
 end of the building and placed in long rows on the floors. No attempt 
 was made to undress or bathe these patients in the receiving ward, as 
 tlu'V represented the more seriously wounded, sick, and gassed. They 
 were registered, examined and assigned to wards. If they had "cooties," 
 thev were carried into the bath house, unless too sick, and placed, lit- 
 
With Base Hospital Forty-Six 93 
 
 ters and all, upon specially constructed delousing tables where they 
 received the same treatment as the walking cases. Having been dif- 
 ferentiated in the receiving ward, the litter cases were immediately 
 carried to the wards by teams of litter bearers wlio worked in rotation. 
 Tliese patients received bed baths in the wards. 
 
 Xo description of a receiving ward in the A. K. V. could j^ossibly 
 be complete without a few words on "cooties." To allow tlu-m to get 
 by on jiatients or on clothes as we learned by bitter experience, was 
 disastrous to tlie hospital morali'. for "cooties" are very impartial in 
 their affinities be it "doughboy, ' medical officer, nurse, or personnel. 
 Quite a few of our most respected citizens will testify to tliis. For 
 this reason, an unduly large part of the space in the bath house was 
 given over to the "delousing" department. Six specially built smooth- 
 topped sloping affairs served as operating tables. Here our staff of 
 ex|)ert barbers exerted their tonsorial skill. After a thorough course in 
 tin ir gentle iiiinistrations, the ])atients left the tfibles. "sadder but 
 cleani'v men." 
 
 On July I!), liase Hospital 1() moved into its new location across 
 the river from the original site. Four days later and before our prepa- 
 rations were completed, the first convoy of patients arrived. It came 
 at midnight and comprised two hundred and fifty severely wounded 
 and gassed patients from the Chateau Thierry drive. Inasnuicli as our 
 showers were not yet ready, little could be done other than diff"eren- 
 tiating the patients into medical or surgical and clean or infested with 
 vermin. This convoy w;is the most instructive of all for it brought to 
 the surface most of the defects and weak points of the receiving rou- 
 tine. When the next convoy arrived seven days later, it found us fairly 
 well prepared, wliich was very fortunate, for on this oeeasion, we re- 
 ceived five hundred and twenty jiatients in one afternoon, a high water 
 mark which we never equalled again. These patients went to the wards 
 clean. After these two convoys, we continued to receive ))atients from 
 the Chateau Thierry region until on August 12, we were ordered to 
 evacuate the hospital as completely as possible. As we learned later, 
 this was in ;inticipation of the casualties from the St. Mihiel drive. 
 On August 28. with seventy ])atients in the hospital, we reached the 
 low-water mark of our activities. The influx from the St. ■Nlihiel drive 
 consisted of five convoys whicli brought the census up to six hundred 
 and seventy-eight on September 19. Then followed the Argonne fight 
 and the activities about Verdun, which brought us nineteen convoys 
 and gave us our maxinuim number of patients on October 19, when we 
 had fifteen hundred aiul forty-four in the hospital. 
 
94t On Active Service 
 
 The evacuation of patients was also a function of the receiving vizard. 
 Patients left the hospital also as "sitters" and "litters." Those able to 
 walk were brought to the ward and loaded on trucks which carried 
 them down to the central evacuating office at the station, f'or the litter 
 cases, the ambulances were driven direct to the ward doors and the 
 patients, who had already been placed on stretcliL-rs in the wards, were 
 carried out and loaded directly on the cars. Patients were generally 
 sent out very early in the morning, but it often happened later in the 
 day and just as we were in the process of receiving patients. For 
 instance, on October 8, we received 223 patients and evacuated 211 
 and on September 30, we received 177 and evacuated 228. These days 
 were trying ones for the personnel and at night there were many 
 aching limbs from the continuous stretcher lifting. 
 
 A third function of the receiving department was the transfer of 
 patients from ward to ward in the hospital. 
 
 During the heighth of our activities the number of transfers was 
 very considerable and added much to our difficulties on receiving and 
 evacuating days. By handling all these three functions through one 
 central agency, however, the keeping of an accurate census for the 
 wards, tents and entire hospital was greatly facilitated. A system of 
 ward clocks or dials in our office enabled us at any time of day or 
 night to give an exact census of each ward and the entire hospital at 
 a minute's notice. This one invention saved us a tremendous amount 
 of work and worry. 
 
 The attached chart of the number of patients in the hospital during 
 the days of fighting, upon which we functioned, shows only the daily 
 increase in the census, the increments being merely the difference 
 between the number received and evacuated on that day. It happened 
 often that we received two and three convoys in twenty-four hours. 
 
 This particular department of war hospital administration is one 
 of unusual interest despite the various difficulties that arise. It calls 
 for the closest cooperation of staff and personnel and this cooperation 
 was at no time lacking in Base Hospital 16. 
 
 Arthur S. Rosenfeld, First Lt.. 'SI. C. 
 
With li \sk Hospitai, l'(»Hr\-Six 
 
 95 
 
 ■ 090 T 
 
 "jgr.StiV I 
 
90 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 HANDS OFF! 
 
 HE FIRST thing that iiu-t o\\v\ trazv as he entered the 
 office of the Evacuating Uepartment of Base Hospital 
 K). was not the extravagant fixtures or the numerous 
 jiigeon holes, but an arrangement of several dials similar 
 to those in the large railway stations, showing the 
 schedule of the arrival and departure of trains. On either side were 
 two large persuasive signs, "Hands Off!" These signs were not posted 
 for merely the scenic effect, but any violation of them was sure to 
 produce a barrage of ink wells, books, and fire-wood b}^ the personnel 
 of the office as well as a few hours of feverish work readjusting the 
 delicate mechanism which gave the exact ward census of tlie entire 
 hospital as to patients and vacant beds. 
 
 Back in the historic and eventful days of tlie Chateau Thierrv drive, 
 when Base Hospital K) was striving to learn liow to run a svstematic 
 liospital. install medical fixtures, and take care of the rapidly arriving 
 wounded, the Receiving De])artment discovered that its work was not 
 finished after tlie patients had passed from its realm of classification 
 and body sterilization to a clean wliite bed in a ward. It was dis- 
 covered that it was of greatest importance to know at all times the 
 exact census of every ward in the liospital, since all patients were class- 
 ified in the receiving ward, and dispatched from there to their respec- 
 tive beds. Again it was necessary to know after the last patient of a 
 convoy had passed through the Receiving Dejiartment, the exact num- 
 ber of vacant beds in each ward, in case we were immediately deluged 
 with another influx of wounded Yanks, which occurred not a few times. 
 Our method of receiving and evacuating out-going patients was so 
 systematized that we could tell the exact number assigned to or sent out 
 from the individual wards, and all the tedious army paper work con- 
 cerning them, but the evolving of a tabulator for the ever-changing 
 ward census jiresented a more difficult ))roblriii. 
 
 After it had been decided to centralize the transportation of all 
 ])atients in the receiving ward, that is, their admission, evacuation, 
 transfer from ward to ward, thereby giving the Evacuation Depart- 
 ment complete control of the movement of ))atients, we were able to 
 evolve tabulators that would give us the desired information — namely, 
 a complete census of the wards at any minute of the day. They 
 were merely simple affairs, based on the first principles of arithmetic, 
 addition and subtraction, so arranged that when they read thirty-three 
 j^atients, they also showed seventeen vacant beds (each ward had fifty 
 
With Base Hospital Forty-Six 97 
 
 l)C(ls). Tlu'v consisted of l;ca\(r lioard hacks, wliicli nearly cost the 
 personnel courtinartial in stealing this precious inat;rial from the 
 vaults of the quartermaster, eardhoard dials, and many hours of me- 
 chanical drawing. Upon a stationary sijuarc piece of heaver hoard, 
 there were mounted two circles of figures to read from one to tift\\ 
 The outer circle read (). where the corresponding numhcr on the inner 
 circle read If), and so on up to .)() to complete the circle. Upon this was 
 u^ounted a circular cardboard dial with two stjuare o))enings to desig- 
 nate the jiarticular units on the circles desired "^ a])))ear. For each 
 ward in the hos])ital. we constructed such a dial, and also one enlarged 
 clock as a total census tabulator, as well as a check on the individual 
 clocks. As has been explained, the evaeuati< ii utHce controlled the move- 
 ment of all p;itients. so it w;is only a (piestion of care and accur;ic\- in 
 regulating the dials that we were always in possession of an exact 
 ward census of every ])atient in the hospital. 
 
 One of the most usual amusing incidents was our daily battle with 
 the morning report of the \arious wards. F.ach ward was required to 
 hand in ,'i report showing the number of ])atients and vacant beds at 
 7:00 a. m. These were used to check the clocks in case some patients 
 were admitted, discharged, or transferred without going through the 
 regular hospital channels. At it turned out. the clocks were more de- 
 pendable than the reports, and after several tangles, the receiving office 
 became a haunting ghost to the nurses who made out the reports. After 
 they had polit 'ly explained to us how they knew how manv patients 
 were in their wards, and that they were running the paper work in 
 their wards, and a few other sarcastic slams, wi' would ))olitely show 
 where a certain ])atient had be;ii aduntted or discharged, which always 
 brought forth a sheepish smile, and an ajiology that the day nurse 
 had forgotten to enter him in the register book. \\\- soon won a repu- 
 tation, and were .-ilways greeted with, "^^'ell. whit's tlie trouble now?" 
 
 However, we are pleased to mention that several base hospitals 
 copied this system of ward census, and we ho|)e that thev had as much 
 .satisfaction in the use of this mechanism as J3ase Hospital W. 
 
 BkHT J. ROSKNTHAI,, .Sot.. First (l.iss 
 
98 
 
 On Active Service 
 
\Vrrii 15 ASK Hdsi'iTAi. I-'ohtv-Six 
 
 99 
 
 SU RGI C AI. DK P A HT .M K X T 
 
 UK SLRCilCAL DKPARTMKXT of IJasc Hos])itaI 
 No. Ki, received between July -2.S and December 1.), 
 1918, 'il^^ cases. From this number (rH) were o])erated 
 upon in tills hospital. The cases received first eanie from 
 tJc Chateau Thierry salient, unexpectedly and al- 
 most bt fore the hosjiital was ])ro))erly organized for the care of such 
 a considerable number of ])atients. The bulk of our early p;itients 
 were necessarilv medical, due to our hack of e(juipment for surgical 
 work. Howe\;r. after the first week in August we were properly 
 e(|uippe,i for any emergency; and the pro[)ortion of the surgical cases 
 increased, until during the month of October, we were rec'ii\ iiig an 
 a\'erage of .'> I new surgical easts daily. 
 
 ^^'e were always somewhat li.!ndiea|)pcd by the lack of personnel 
 and the absence of ten officers who were on the surgical teams. The 
 officers, nurses and enlisted men are deserving of the greatest credit 
 i'or the harmonv and willingness with which they Avorked. 
 
 The work was \ aried des])ite tln' attem])t that had l).en made at the 
 center hcachjuarters to assign special cases to each hospital of the 
 grou]). Base Hospital No. K) having been designated as the center for 
 neurological surgery and ophthalmology: however, we received twenty 
 abdominal cases, over one hundred and twenty-five fractures, and fifty- 
 one chest eases. The neurological eases, including the |)iripheral 
 ncrxc injuries, numbered o\(r one huiulred and fifty. 
 
 Owing to till' fact that this hospital was used as an exaeuation base. 
 only the more srriously wounded were kept for an\- considerable time. 
 
 In looking oxer the records which we have of our work, we find that 
 they did not show the time and amotmt of work expended n])on tlie 
 patients. \\[. we all ha\c a feeling of ])ride for the work which has 
 been performed. ;ind no soldier left the hospital who did not receive 
 the verv best that we had. 
 
 MAJOR T. -M. JOYCE 
 
100 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 OPERATING TEA:SI'S FIRST EXPERIENCE 
 
 HORTLY after tlie arrival of Base Hospital No. K) at 
 Bazoilles, orders vi^ere received from chief of the con- 
 sultants' office at Neufchateau for the formation of 
 surgical teams, consisting of an operator, an assistant, 
 and an anesthetist, either a nurse or officer; two nurses 
 and two enlisted men, the object of these teams being that they 
 could be called without delay and sent to the area where surgical work 
 was neded most urgently. Three such teams were organized from this 
 hosjiital. known as Teams Nos. 77, 78 and 79. 
 
 Very shortly the tliree operating surgeons were ordered to Evacu- 
 ation Hospital No. 1, located a short distance north of Toul. for 
 observation of the war surgery being performed there, the duration of 
 the stay to be two weeks. These three officers reported and s]ient two 
 days on duty when orders were received for their immediate return 
 to the Base. U])on arrival at the Base we were at a loss to account for 
 our sudden return, when Colonel Keller, director of the professional 
 service, arrived and ordered these three teams with their e(jui])ment to 
 be readv to move in an hour. 
 
 With two teams from Base Hos))ital No. 12, and six teams from 
 Mobile C])erating Unit No. 1, we left Bazoilles with orders to report 
 to the Chief Surgeon of the First Army Corps. These teams traveled 
 in twelve autos and one truck, the leading chauffeur having the only 
 ma}) and his object appeared to be to leave the remaining cars far 
 behind. After running about three hours we arri\-ed at St. Dizier, 
 where, after much pleading, we obtained diinier and then started again 
 for our destination. Soon darkness came and in this zone lights were 
 forbidden, yet this did not seem to lessen the speed with which we 
 traveled. One machiiu- had engine trouble, stopped, and in repairing 
 the lights were turned on. Almost immediately a Boehe was overhead 
 and dropi)ed a bomb which landed a few hundred yards from the car. 
 Needless to sav, the lights were extinguished and this car was run 
 without the fan which had caused the delay. 
 
 The dust was frightful and while this convoy was jjassing a French 
 supply train, our leading machine and a French truck collided, locking 
 wheels. The dust and darkness added to the confusion, the three 
 following machines telescoping, and there was immediately a mass of 
 wreckage with gasoline spilled over everything. Several were thrown 
 
With Bask Hospital Forty-Six 101 
 
 from the cars, hut t sc-apcd willi no inorr serious injury than a fV'W 
 seal}) wounds, caused hy hrokrn ghiss, and bruised linihs. Lieutenant 
 Mars had the most severe injury and we were obli<>;ed to lea\c liini at 
 the first hospital we reached on the followiuii- morninj:,- and he returned 
 home about ten days later. After clearino; the wreckag'e, the j)arty 
 doubled up and proceeded, leaving four otKeers and four enlisted men 
 to l)e ))ieked up by the truck which was followinu,'. 
 
 Arriving at the IMrst Army Head(]uart;'rs al)out t :()() a. m.. we 
 r(])orted to the Chief Surgeon, who ordered that we proceed to Crejjv 
 and report to tlic l)i\ ision Surgion of the First Division. Reacliing 
 there .about 1():()0 a. m.. we had our first sight of the destruction caused 
 hv war. This town was the American railhead and we can i'ully con- 
 <irm the report that there w;is not a single building that did not show 
 signs of either air liomlis or shelling. Our convoy was there divided, 
 some going to the I^'irst Division and some to tlu' Second Division, 
 which was liolding the northwest end of the sector; the three teams 
 from Base Hospital No. 1-6 going together to I'"ield Hospital No. l'-2, 
 I'irst Division, at Pierrefonds. 
 
 ^^'e arrived there alout 1:0(1 p. m.. and were al)out ten kilometers 
 behind the firing line. The sight that greeted us, none will e\tr forget. 
 Aljout I.jOO woujuled men on stretchers all about the grounds in the 
 shade of the immense chateau, and surgical teams working in twenty- 
 hour shifts. We were very welcome indeed and were advised to rest, as 
 at 7 :.'>() p. m. we were to report, relieving the greatly overworked teams 
 then on duty. The length of the shift was established at 1 '2 hours. We 
 remained with this organization for eight days, seeing some of the most 
 terrible conditions caused b\- war. We were visited nightly by Boche 
 airmen, bombing the roads and truck trains which were passing within 
 fifty yards of our operating rooms. The ])Iastcr. ceiling and ))art of 
 the roof ot tiie sleeping (piarters of two of our nurses were wrecked. 
 I'ortunately they were on dut\ at that time. Only the men severely 
 wounded were treated at this hospital, the remainder being transferred 
 back to e\acuatiou hospit.ils and hospital trains to be taken to the 
 base hospitals. Wf had Americans. l<"rencli. British and ;\ considerable 
 number of Boche passed through this hospital each day. 
 
 \\ hen the Division was relieved we were ordered to return home, but 
 whib' en route, recei\cd orders to report to different organizations: 
 Team Xo. 77 to a hospital at \'erdelot. with the Third Division; Team 
 No. 7S to Ch.ite.iu Thierry, with the Twenty-eighth Division; Team 
 Xo. 79 to ev.acu.-ition hospit.al ;it C'ouloumiiers. The work ;ind experi- 
 
102 On Active Skhvk e 
 
 eiice at these places was a re{)etiti()n of the former. The teams re- 
 maiiu'd witli these hospitals, moving with them as the army advanced, 
 until the American Army was withdrawn from this sector and moved 
 to the St. Mihiel salient. All were given a short rest and then, with 
 some slight rearrangements the teams were again ordered out to 
 field dntv. 
 
 HISTORY OF SURCilC'AL TKAM NO. 77 
 
 ORDERS came September 9 for this team to ])roceed to tlie St. 
 Mihiel front. After considerabh' journey we arrived at our desti- 
 nation. Aulnois. and reported to Mohih' Hospital .'!J). This unit was 
 from Yale Medical School and we wrre most fortunate in being as- 
 signed to it. We were located about three kilometers from (ounnercy, 
 and directly behind Montsec. Naturally, such a location spelled excite- 
 ment and we heard the famous barrage which ))receded the drive upon 
 it. Our surgical activities at this assignment were directed toward 
 caring for the wounded from this advance. The hill following this 
 battle entailed for us a period of inactivity, until we were sent to 
 Mobile Hospital No. ') at Rampont on September Si, arriving there 
 in time for the Argonne drive. During tliis ])eriod M-e were located 
 about six kilometers behind Mt. Faucon aiu! Mort H'Omme. a sight 
 replete with interest, excitement and hard work. After the signing of 
 the armistice, work naturally slackened, until on November '2^2 we 
 received orders to return to Bast- Ho.s])it;il No. 1(). 
 
 tea:\i no. 78 
 
 THE beginning of this article finds us in Paris. aft;r our work at 
 Pierfonds. Here the teams se))arated and we received orders to 
 proceed to La Ferte-sous-Jouarre. We s))ent the niglit there and the 
 next day were taken by automobile to Chateau Thierry. This town 
 had been occu])ied by the Germans only a week before and we had a 
 chance to observe the results of the accurate firing of the American 
 artillery. 
 
 We were taken to Field Hospital No. i\2. which three days before, 
 had taken possession of a large hospital building. This had been used 
 by the French before the war, and, in turn, by the Germans during 
 their stay here. We were surprised to learn that the Germans had 
 left it in good condition, beds, operating tables and other equipment, 
 
With H \sf. Hospital I'oinv-Hix ]()3 
 
 just .'IS they t'oiiiul tliciii. I even ohscrvtd a larnr slock ol' \aliial)lf 
 (lru<>s in the l),nscin(iit. Tliis hospital was cxtrcnich- laisy. 
 
 ^^'(■ shart'd the work here with two other teams, iiiidt r heller eoiuli- 
 tions th.-iii we t'oiiiu] in aii\' other field or e\;u'uation hospilal. It was 
 like working' in a modern snrycrw asepsis heiiii;' carefnlh' ol)ser\'ed. 
 
 .Vs in all othei' field li()s|)itals. oid\' serious casis were operated on: 
 all others lieinji' e\aen,ated further back. Our cases consisted |)rincipally 
 of penetrating and perforating wounds of the head, chesl and .ibdomen. 
 a series of abdominal cases being < specialh- interesting. 'I'hese cases. 
 of c-oursc, could not l)e evacuated for four or i'lvv days, which ga\c us 
 an op|)ortunit\' to observe them. 
 
 Our working shift was twehe hours. l)ut often operating was 
 especially ]iea\ y so we put in sixteen or eighteen hours. 
 
 During this time, the (lermans were being driven back rapidlv. 
 ri'tjuiring the amlxilances to make longer tri])s each dav. As time was 
 essential the con-.manding otticer decided to move nearer the front. \\'e 
 left Chateau Thierry on the morning of August 1 'J and arrived at our 
 new location, just beyoiul the village of Coen. aiiout noon. Tents were 
 erected in a surprising manner, which reminded me of a circus, and 
 everything was completed by night. Wr l)egan receiving ])atients and 
 operating at once. It was cpiit ■ a cliangt' from our well e(|uipped sur- 
 gery to a tent. One te.am had been sent back. l)ut later we were joined 
 l)y two other ttams. Due to our advanced ])osition. patients were re- 
 ceived who had been wounded only two or three hours before, hav iny; 
 ))assed through the first aid sl,-ilions. some of which were within three 
 ([uarlers of a mile. 
 
 I'p to this time, we had experienced few air raids. i)oth at Pierre- 
 fonds and at Chateau Thierry, but here we were to receive sonu' real 
 thrills. Air raids were connnon occurrences, as well as gas alarms, so 
 the only light allowed al night was a gas affair, directlv over the 
 o])erating table, carefully screened l)y blankets, (ias .alarms were 
 souiuied almost every night liy means of bells and whistles when 
 operating was suspended and gas masks adjusted. Operating with a 
 gas mask was very unsatisfactorv. 
 
 The nurses at these times were very brave and went aliout their work 
 as it unconscious of dro])))ing bomks or poison gas. 
 
 The night of .\ugi!st '2.'!. we experienced the most severe and con- 
 tinuous air raid of our trip. Practically .all night the Hoclie planes 
 
lot On Active Service 
 
 were abo\c us. Often we eould liear the liiiin of four or five at the same 
 time. Flaslies of dropping bombs could be seen in all directions. One 
 plane, passing directly over us, so low as to be seen cjuite distinctly, 
 drojjped two lombs within fifty feet of our tents whicli, fortunately, 
 did not exjjlode. We learned next day that this was due to the low 
 altitude of the plane, the bombs not receiving enough momentum to 
 cause an cxj^losion. The nurses were taken into ea\(s and cellars in 
 the \illage. Thi- officers had their choice between these ])laces and 
 hales about two feet deep, which we had dug in our tents. These holes 
 were good protection, except in case of a direct hit. 
 
 On August "is a battery of artillery took up its position on a hill 
 directly behind us and shortly tlie (iermans liatl their range and were 
 sending ovvv shells. Those which fell short, struck inu-omfortably 
 near us. 
 
 Because of this severe shelling, the teams were sent back to the 
 town of Fere-en-Tardenois, where we were (juartered with Field Hos- 
 ))ital No. 1 1 1 for two days, then returned to our base. 
 
 On September ':iS. I was ordered to K\aeuatiou Hospital No. (). at 
 Souilly, .south of \'erdun, to relieve Captain Maeomber. who was in 
 charge of Surgical Team No. 71'. Here I found a well-organized and 
 very efficiently-conducted hospital. Fight surgical teams were on 
 duty here. 
 
 \\\)Uiuled were being received here fro n the Argonne and other 
 sectors in wliieh the Americans were fighting. These cases consisted 
 of injuries of less serious nature than those handled in field hospitals. 
 Much of the operating was for the removal of bullets and ])ieces of 
 shrapnel. A splint team aided greatly in the handling of fr;ieture 
 cases. 
 
 During the period of two months. o\er SO.OOO cases passed through 
 this hospital, medical and surgical. Over ().()()() were operated on. 'I'his 
 hospital received a citation for its good work. \\\- left Souilly Novem- 
 ber 16 for Base Hospital No. Ki. 
 
 SURCHCAF TEAM NO. 79 
 
 THFS team left Bazoilles on duly "29, by ai to, togetlur with similar 
 groups from the \arious hospitals comprising the center at that 
 time. The trip that carried them to Pierrefonds, near Soissons. will 
 ever be remembered by all making it. At Pierrefonds. they were at- 
 taclied to Field Hospital No. l^i. First Division, and had the first 
 experience at war surgery, and it is im])ossible to describe their memory 
 
With Base Hospital Foutv-Six 
 
 105 
 
 pictures of til.' .scenes tliat !j,reeU(l tlit in. It was at tins place that tliey 
 first realized what the "fear of nioonli<>'lit" meant. After the with- 
 drawal of the I'"irst Division, the team was ordered to Paris and en- 
 joyed a sta\- there of three days. 
 
 On the twent\' ninth a short trip was made 1)\' rail to Coulonnniers, 
 where the learn was attached to 1*">\ acuation Hospital No. 7. This was 
 a \fr\- l)us\- orii'ani/alion and the work was such that undir dale of 
 Se])teml)er !•. the coniniander-in-clMef ga\f them :\ citation, oi* com- 
 mendation, in (ieneral Orders, h'.ach meml)>r of the learn was <)i\(n 
 a certified copy oi' the order and probably \alues it as his best war 
 sou\ cnir. 
 
 On Auii'usl !). Tcim ~[) reported to l*"\aeualioii Hospital No. () at 
 Chateau Thiirry. Here the work was very liyht and on .\n<iiist I}). 
 the\- m()\ ed with this hospital to C'hatenois. At this place tliey were 
 billeted amonj^' the l<"rench people ;ind were treated \-ery cordially. 
 I'rom Chatenois. the ori>'.ini/alion was uio\ ed to Souilly. takiny o\ cr 
 an old hrencli hospital well ( (iuip])ed and \cry co nfort.able. 
 
 liefore the St. .Mihiel drisc. the nearness of W rdun and other his- 
 torit' ])oints ya\c the members of the team a c'hance for sii;ht-seeinir. 
 Dnriiiii' the dri\e about St. .Mihiel. the Ariionne .'ind alony the .\Ieuse 
 there was no letup in the work until the armistic<' was sijrned. Oi' 
 September -J!) Captain .Macombi r returned to the base. Captain I'.dwin 
 \y. .Morse takinii' his place. On No\ ember 1."), ortlers came t'rom Team 
 .No. 7J' to return to its base. As ;ill roads lead throuii'h Paris. llie\' 
 enjoyed a t<S-liour st.ny there before returninii' to Ha/oilles. 
 
 This team was detached from Base Hospital No. i() from Julv !!> 
 until the end of the war and all were <jlad to return to their parent 
 ori>'ani/atioii. after a mixture of hardships and ])!. asures durini!,- that 
 time. 
 
 HOCHK WOINDKI) AM) .IIST OFF flO.-^l'Il Al. TKAIN 
 
]06 On Active Service 
 
 OPERATING ROOM IX AX EVACUATIOX HOSPITAL 
 
 WAR furnishes few greatei- contrasts than that hftwcni the opcrat- 
 ino- room of an ui)-to-datf civil hos])ital and that of an evacua- 
 tion liospital working under tlie pressure of a drive. Of course, sucli 
 an ojierating room may be set up anywhere — in a cliateau or a liotel. or 
 out in a wheat field. The one I ha\ c in mind was in a long ti'ut with 
 improvised wooden flooring. To get the full contrast, pay it a visit 
 after midnight. You must ])ick your way out to it carefully through 
 the pitcln' hlackness, otherwise you may stumble on some wounded 
 man on a litter i)laced on the ground waiting his turn. You enter. ])ush- 
 ing aside the blanket wliich prevents the esca])e of any light. Tlie 
 glaring light from many electric bulbs is blinding at first, but after 
 ••i while, details become clearer. There are fourteen operating tables 
 placed crosswise and on each is a prone figure in khaki. Around 
 seven of these are strangely clad grou])s. scarcely recognizable as 
 doctors and luirses. All the white gowns and sheets and other para- 
 phernalia of modern aseptic surgery are lacking. The surgeon works 
 with a towel wra])ped about his head — sleeves rolled u]) — rubber 
 apron protecting his clothes — rubber gloves on his h.inds. ^^'ork is being 
 started at one point and finished at another. The litt.'r-bearers are 
 constantly moving u]) and down tlie narrow aisle bringing in fresh 
 wounded or taking operated cases to the tent wards. The surgeon 
 finishes an operation and while his assistant ])uts on the dressing, he 
 stumbles over to a bench for a few jnifls of a cigarette and a moment's 
 rest. At the same time he dictates his re|)ort to the official scribe. 
 Meanwhile, another case is being anaesthetized and the assistant, hav- 
 ing a]>])lied the dressing, a cry goes up for "Litter-bearers." These 
 men work in twelve-hour shifts and wlien it is realized that an average 
 of twenty-four o})erations are performed by each "team" in that 
 length of time, some idea of the strain under which the work is turned 
 out may be ajjpreciated. 
 
 OX JULY 7, Lieutenants Ciarret Lee Hynsoii and Ir\ing M. 
 Lu])ton were ordered to re])ort to Pase Hospital Xo. 1 ."i at 
 C'haumont. after having been at Pazoilles with Pase Hospital Xo. K) 
 only a week. The trij) was made by ambulance and upon arrival they 
 reported for assignment to a surgical team. They were assigned to 
 Casual Operating Team No. 17 under couunand of ('a])tain H. K. 
 Shawan. who had come to P'rance with the first Americans and who had 
 unlimited experience in war surgery. The team was composed of three 
 medical officers, two nurses and two enlisted men. \\'ithin three days 
 
W iTii Uask Hospital I'Okty-Hix 107 
 
 tlu-y were ordered to (icrardincr, \'()sof.s. a Ixaiiti f ul little town iitar 
 the Swiss border wliieli in peaee times was a famous sinnmer resort. 
 Tliey were attached to the I'it'tli l)i\isioii. 'I'hey at once took eliar<>;e of 
 a hospital loeated in the Hotel (hi Lae. Two weeks later the I'ifth 
 Division nio\cd north and th;- team proceeded to St. Die ;iiid took over 
 the St. diaries hospital. This was a J'rench e\acuation hospital and 
 was located three and one half kilometers from the a;l\anei(l line. The 
 V. ork here consisted of i>Mvinjr surgical attention to l:oth .Vmerican and 
 I'rench soldiers and also to those of the remaining cixiliaus in the 
 \icinity. During the sta\- at this station the "I'rappell .^how" took 
 place. Some '..'OO cases were operated uj)on by t'ae team within 7"-i hours 
 as the result of this fight. 
 
 'I'he Di\ision then went into rest and the tiam proceeded to l'"Jo\"es, 
 after being at St. Die for six weeks, brom here Ihev mo\td to Bren\- 
 encourt an() thence to St. (ierniain. where two .veeks were s])ent. At 
 this point the mirses were sent to Ton), whili' the team was attaclied 
 to Field Hospital No. 17 of the b'ifth Sanitar\- Train. Thev were 
 then .sent to St. Ktienne, where all excess baggage was disi)osed of, and 
 they marched with the Fifth b)ivision to Donievre. ^fartincourt and St. 
 Jean, where a first aid station was erected. Orders from the Division 
 Surgeon ))rohibited any operating on accoinit of the advanced position 
 of the team. At I 1 o'clock the night of Se])tember 1 1 the opening- 
 barrage of the St. .Mihiel offensive started and from then on. during the 
 duration of the drive, they continued to give first aid. .\s the advance 
 ])rogressed the dressing station moved on. so the termination of the 
 offensive found them just outside Pont-a-.Mousson. 
 
 b'rom here they were sent to Kxacuation Hospital No. I at Sebasto- 
 ])ol for .a re^t and the first bath in weeks. The nurses joined them 
 here and the team |)roceeded to .Mobile Hosjntal No. .-) at Ravine les 
 i'laeys on the W-rdun front. This hospital was under the command 
 of Colonel Crile. Wounded from the Argoime Forest fight were sent 
 to this hosjjital and Surgical Team Xio. 17 operated only on chest 
 and abdominal wounds. At this station Lieutenant Lu])ton and Litn- 
 teiiant Hynson were both put in charge of surgical teams. Lieutenant 
 Hynson being sent to Fvacuation Hospital No. t. Lieutenant Lupton 
 remaining with Mobile Operating Unit No. ."). 
 
 On November 1 t they were ordered to report again to C'haumont 
 and from there were sent back to Base 16 after an absence of over 
 five months. 
 
108 On Active Service 
 
 I WAS dt'taclu'd from Base Hospital No. K) ,fuly 7. 1J)1S. on orders, 
 to General Htadcjuarters at C'hauaiont. where I was assigned to 
 Surgical Team No. l(i. Our team was ordered to Evacuation Hospital 
 No. 7 at Coulommiers, where we remained during the Chateau Thierry 
 drive. The latter ])art of August we moved, with Evacu/ition Hospital 
 No, 7, to Souilly and continued with this hospital during the St. 
 Mihiel drive and until October lo during the lattle of the Argonne. 
 On October 15 we were ordered to Evacuation Hos])ital No. 1,) at 
 Cxloriux, just outside of Verdun, where we remained until after the 
 signing of the armistice. I returned to Base Hospital No. K) Novem- 
 ber 28. 1918. Our team averaged 25 operations daily. 
 
 BENJAMIN W. McKENZIE. First Lieutenant, M. C. 
 
 THE United States Army Medical ('or])s organized a course of 
 instruction at the central laboratory in Dijou to train medical men 
 in the important work of resusitating seriously wounded men who had 
 suffered severe hemorrhage and exposure. It was my good fortune 
 to be detailed for this course which consisted largelv in work in blood 
 transfusion. After completion of the course our team was ordered on 
 September .'5, 1918, to proceed to Evacuation Hospital No. 7 at Souilly 
 for duty. The team arrived at its destination on September () and was 
 assigned to a ward of twenty beds for shock cases only. We received 
 our first cases from the Argonne drive. At once we were called upon 
 to use all the various methods of coml)ating "shock." that we had 
 learned, theoretically, in the special course; namely, blood transfusion, 
 artificial heat, intravenous injections and the use of stimulants. Our 
 work continued with slight interrii))tion until November (). 1918. when 
 we were ordered to return to our base. 
 
 During this period we had cared for 515 cases and performed '20 
 transfusions. 
 
 JESSE R. PATTON, First Lieutenant, M. C. 
 
With Bask Hospital Forty-Six 
 
 \09 
 
 DEPARTMFAT Ol IXTERXAI. MKDICIXE 
 
 Majok Will. jam S. Knox, Chief of Medical Staft' 
 Cai'tain I.AtiiKNCi: Ski.i.inc, neiiartinont of Xcur()Ioi>\- 
 
 .Major Otto Koch 
 Major J. H. ■Johnson 
 ^Nlajor ,1. T. Uohison 
 ('a|)t. Arthuf .McCowii 
 
 I.t. ("liarh-s Sciil 
 
 I,t. Arthnr Xosciifcld 
 
 I.t. B. \V. McK<-n/,ir 
 
 I,t. Harry Kin;:- 
 
 I.t. N'clson {•'razici- 
 
 RO.M JULY -';; to Decfinlxr \^>. i!)lS. 117!) paticnt.s 
 ad i)asst'd throiio-li the medical wards of Base Hos- 
 pital Xo. Ki. This mnnber rejjivsents almost entirely 
 c.ises of u;as poisoniiig. iiiflueii/a. ])neuni()ni.i and dyscn- 
 terv. .M iseellaneous conditions, raiigiiiii' from intestinal 
 |)arasites to atropine poisoniii"; have occasionally been encountered, 
 out the\- represi nt a very small ))ercentau;e of the whole. 
 
 The first eoiuoy on .Inly 'J.'! arri\-ed not oiilv before the hospital 
 was adetiuateh' e(]ui])ped. but also before there had been an oppor- 
 tunity to org-.aiii/e the st.aH. Coinino- from Chateau Thierry, it con- 
 sisted mainly of patients yassed with Phosgene and to a lesser degree 
 liunifd with the so-called "Mustard (ias." U)) to August 1. there were 
 kS.S cases, practically all gas poisoning, being cared for in the medical 
 wards. The treatment of these patients was purely symptomatic and 
 on the whole far from satisfactory. Some developed seeondar\- ))neu- 
 monia, a com])lication which ])roved almost one hundred per cent 
 fatal. ^Vhile strictly s))eaking. mustard gas patients are to be classi- 
 fied as surgical, the fact remains that a great many such were treated 
 in medical wards. These included some of the most distressing eases 
 with which the iiospital has had to deal. The pain and discomfort 
 were intense; the weatlier \ cry hot and the |)atit nts' sufferings were 
 further augmented by grt;it swarms of Hies which infested the entire 
 camp. .Material with which to screen windows was unobtainable. About 
 this time, one of the staff". Lieutenant Louis .^L■lngan. impressed with 
 the ineffectiveness of the method then in vogue for treating mustard 
 burns, devised a scheme wiiieh consisted in merely injecting and re- 
 injecting a simple alkaline solution into the blister. The result was 
 truly remarkable and there can be no (juestion that the suffering of 
 many patients was not only reduced a hundred fold, but that lives 
 were actuallv sa\cd. It is to be reirretted that the efforts of Lt. Col. 
 
1 1 
 
 On Activf, Servu e 
 
 \y. R. Davis to liavr this iiK-tliod thoroughly investigated and tried 
 out at various base and evaeuation liospitals met witli no success. 
 
 During the month of August 6'99 patients were admitted, inchiding 
 fewer gas cases, but more dysentery. Efforts to recover the B. dysen- 
 teriae were unsuccessful, due probably to the fact that the patients 
 had been ill for the greater part of a week before coming to us. This 
 would coincide with the experience of others that to recover tlie causa- 
 tive organism of tliis disease the case must be subjected to bacteriolo- 
 gical examination immediately after onset. Fortunately, the mortality 
 was low. there b.eing no death from non-complicated dysentery and 
 the majority of all cases being returned to duty after an average hos- 
 ]>ital stay of about ten days. 
 
 Nine hundred eightv-one and oiu' thousand seven hundred and fiftv- 
 
 MKDK'AI, WAKDr 
 
With Base Hospital Fohty-Six 111 
 
 two cases were received diirin<>; the months of September and October, 
 resjiectivelv. Earlv in Se))tember the prevalence of influenza took a 
 sharj) rise and as the epidemic increased, more and more frecjuently it 
 was complicated bv l)roiieho-pneumonia. A double ward. No. 'i'i. was 
 given over to the e\clusi\e m;inagement of tliis disease and its death 
 rate exceeded all others of the h()s])ital combined. Many cases re- 
 ceived by convoy died witliiii forty-eiii'iit hours of aduiissioii. The 
 disease was absolutely atypical, both as to its clinical I'eatures and its 
 associate bacteriology. The last named was made the subject of a 
 careful study by ^lajor Robert I>. Benson, chief ol" the labor.atory. 
 and will undoubtedly be included in his re))ort of the work of tiiat 
 department, l-'rom a clinical standpoint, the di.sease was charactt'rized 
 by the vagueness of the ))hysical signs, which often did not defi- 
 nitely re\e;il themsehes for days after the general ))icture of the 
 patient plainly indicated his true condition. An earl\- manifestation 
 was that of delirium, a tendency to get out of bed and a general rest- 
 less ness most difficult to manage. In this connection, the writer wishes 
 to especially comment on the faithfulness, tact and skill displayed 
 by the head nurses, Miss Louise O. Summers, Miss Elizabeth Free- 
 man. Miss Lilli.an Oleson and the ward master. Private (). Nelson. 
 During the two months of September and October 1 1 J) cases of 
 pneumonia were admitted with 71 deaths, a mortality of M) ])er cent. 
 'I'hc .aNtrage mortality from this disease for all months is slightly 
 o\fr to per cent. 
 
 The isolation ward has been conducted under the superx ision of 
 .M/ijor Otto Koch. To this tent were not oidy .admitted the xarious 
 exanthemata for observation, but most of the dermatological cases as 
 well. The ward was conducted in a manner that reflects great credit 
 on the officer in charge. 
 
 The foregoing is a resume of the Department of Medicine. While 
 officially known as Base Hospital No. Ki. the institution, because of 
 its relative proximity to the fiighting line has been used as an evacua- 
 tion hospital rather th,-in as a base. So great was the urgency for 
 getting the ])atients in and out that extended observation and study 
 of patients has been im])()ssible. This with other facts has militated 
 against the fultillnient of certain ambitions held before the institution 
 functioned as an independent unit. Notwithstanding this, however, it 
 is believed that the work to which Base Hospital No. U) was assigned 
 lias liccn eouunendabh- performed. 
 
112 On Active Service 
 
 THE DISABILITY BOARD 
 
 ^g®^ HE CHIEF fuiH'tion of the iiiilitary li()s])ital, as of the 
 j"cS civil hospital, is the care and treatment of patients. It 
 must return the greatest possihle numher of men to 
 j^^^^J^^%i full (lutv in the least ])ossil)le time. But in the nature 
 of things it is imjiossihle that all who enter a hospital 
 he returned to full duty, and a man who has lost a leg may be medic- 
 allv cured, hut he can no longer fight, so it becomes a secondary 
 function of such a hospital to reclassify the cases coming under its 
 care, so that tiiose no longer fit for front line work or full duty with 
 their organizations, may be assigned to such service as they arc capalile 
 of giving. This is the ))uri)ose of the Disability Board. 
 
 The duties of the board in Base Hospital Hi were not heavy. Acting 
 rather as an evacuation liospital than a base, the majority of the sick 
 and wounded had to he sent on down the line as soon as they were 
 transjiortable, and transportation axailalile. They could not l)e held 
 until cured, and generally cases are not reclassified until it can be 
 d L'finitL'ly determined in what class they belong. 
 
 Those cases whieii do come Itefore the hoard are grou])ed accord- 
 ing to army regulations into four classes: 
 
 Class A — Physically fit. Ready for full duty with their organi- 
 zation. 
 
 Class B — Unfit for full duty. Tins includes all cases which are 
 capable of doing heavy work or light work of some sort in the rear. 
 It includes only those whose disability is thought to be temporary, in 
 whom complete recovery is expected within a few weeks or months. 
 For example, a man who has been moderately gassed mav be ready 
 for duty of some sort in a short time, but any hard work will bring 
 on shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart and similar symj)- 
 toms. He will be ])laced in Class B and given light work, with the 
 expectation that after a few months he will again be ready for front 
 line work. Accordingly, all Class B patients must come up for re- 
 examination at stated intervals, and according to their ])hvsieal condi- 
 tion at that time, are reclassified again. At any of these subsequent 
 examinations he may be kept in Class B. or transferred to Class A if 
 he is completely well, or to Class C if no further improvement seems 
 likely. 
 
 Class C — Permanently unfit for full duty. A man who has lost an 
 arm cannot return to the front lines, but he can do light duties of a 
 kind in the rear, and it is the princi])le of the army to keep such men 
 
^^ iTii Uasf, MnsriTAL FoRTV-SiX 
 
 113 
 
 in s(r\ ic-c. as hy so doino- >,()inr ni.in pliysicalK- fit is rdi astd Cor scrxici- 
 at tlic trout. 
 
 Class 1) — L'litit l"or any niilitary duty. Tlicst cases arc returned 
 to tilt' United States as soon as possible. 
 
 The Disability Hoard as first ap]>ointed .Vuy-ust (S. li)lS. consisted of 
 .Major Charles .\. Betts. President; l'"irst Lieutenant .lacoh INarl and 
 I'irst Lieutenant .\. S. Rosen feld. .\L C. After a few weeks. .\L'ijor 
 Hctts aiul LieuN'uant I'carl were detaciied peruianenth- from Hase 
 Ilospital t(). and a new hoard was ap|)()inted. consistiii"- of Ca])tain 
 L. Sellini)'. Pr-sideiit; Ciptain Richard B. Dillehuiit. nieuiher. and 
 Lieutenant \. S. Roseiifeld. Recorder. This board continued on duty 
 until afti'r the armistice. Captain Dillehuiit was then detached from 
 the unit and Captain 1',. I', /ieiiilman. M. ('.. was appointed in his 
 i)Iace. 
 
 X-R.\Y L.V1U)RAT()RV 
 
 UK R()K.\ r(;K.\OLOGICAL Laboratory was estab- 
 lished July 'J7. 1918. The trials .•md ditHcuIties which 
 \vere encountered wi're. of course, much like those met 
 in other departments. A 7 ' :_> K. \\ . interrupterle.ss 
 transformer, with all the modern equipment to ijo with 
 it. was at our disposal, but a current sufficient to successfulh- ojxrate 
 this machine was inaccessible, so we were obliged to make use of the 
 L. S. Army bedside unit. 'Phis m/u'liine. thoiiixh niueh smaller, has 
 at all times |)ro\eii mvv satisfactor\' for the ordinarv lam of work. 
 Some very good negatixts of the gastro-intestinal tra;t have e\i'n been 
 obtained. 
 
 .\s with other branches of photograjihy . a dark room is naturalh' 
 an important part of an X-Ray Laboratory. Our dark room de\clo))ed 
 \try early in its career the habit of admitting the sun's ra\s at times 
 and in places most incoincnieiit for all concerned. 
 
 \\ liile a majority of the work was done in the laboratorw manv of 
 the cases were radiographed in the wards. This was espicialh' true 
 in the fracture wards when the exposures were made with the patients 
 in all conceivable |)ositions. Desirable jilates were obtained only after 
 exercising a great deal of care and ingenuity. 
 
 \[ times during and immediately following periods of great acti\ity 
 at the fronts many wounded wi're received direct from the dressing 
 stations. These men often coming through the receiving wards were 
 brought to the laboratory. ])laced on the Huorosco]iic table and a 
 
114 On Activk Skkvu e 
 
 gx'Ufral survcv of the patient iiiadf. W'lun foi ti<i,ii bodies were t'ound, 
 thev were loe.alized. and tlie patient, with his radiographic report was 
 then taken direct to tile operating room for surgical treatment. 
 
 Tlu' localization of foreign bodies is perha|)s one of the most iu> 
 portant advances made by the .Medical Department during the war. 
 Fluoroscopy has been used for localization for some time, yet its 
 tremendous importance was never realized by the profession and laity 
 until large numbers of battle casualties had to he treated in a short 
 space of time and rendered fit for further service. 
 
 Many methods of localization are in use, yet the })rinciple upon 
 wdiich they are founded is essentially the same. The subject to be 
 examined is placed on a table in a room from which all light is ex- 
 cluded. Beneath this is a box that can be pushed from one end to the 
 other containing an X-Ray tube, ^^"hen the current is turned on, the 
 rays are made to pass up through the bottom of the table and through 
 the patient until they strike a fluoroscopic plate which becomes illumi- 
 nated and shows the image or shadow of the part examined. The more 
 dense the material the rays are made to penetrate, the darker the 
 shadow; as, for example, muscle tissue would cause but a faint shadow, 
 bone a much more dense one, .and a ))iece of metal, such as a bullet or 
 shell fragment, which cut out all the r.ays. would project a still more 
 distinct image. 
 
 By rotating the ])art examined and tlu- use of certain rules of meas- 
 urement, the exact location and dist.ance of the missle frt)m the sur- 
 face can be readily determined. 
 
 It can be seen even by the uninitiated that this exact means of 
 locating the bullet is of inestimable vahu' to the surgeon in that it 
 enables him to make his incision at the nearest point on the surface 
 to the fragment, and thus greatly lessen the time of o})eration and 
 the unnecessary injury to tissues. 
 
 Over J, '^00 examinations ha\e been made in the lahor.atory of wliieh 
 iOO were fluoroscopic (and 900 radiographic). There were liV2 foreign 
 bodies localized, SiiO fractures of all types, 7<S chest cases and 17 cases 
 involving the bones of the head and face radiographed ; 20 gastro- 
 intestinal cases fluroscoped. 
 
 DORWIX L. PA1..MKH. First Lieutenant, M. C. 
 
\\'iTn Bask Hcispital I'oktv-Six H;) 
 
 EYE, EAR. NOSE AM) THROAT DEPARTMENT 
 
 THE EYE, far. nose and throat (Icpartnitiit of Base Hospital l6 
 was delayed in finishing its elinic more than the rest of the organi- 
 zation. Almost any one will remember the zealous scramble for 
 equipment during the tarly days of work for tlie first eonxoys. Wards 
 held priority for earpenters. instruments had not come, and medieal 
 su))plies were lacking. l"'or several weeks its clinic was minus walls 
 and activity Mas partially inhibited. 
 
 \\'()rk, however, was carried on at first in various wards ,is thor- 
 oughlv as possible. Some ingenuity was exhibited in the fashioning 
 of instruments from crude material and considerable effort was ex- 
 ))ended in securing drugs from neighboring towns. Soon a small clinic 
 was started in a ward dressing room and with the arrixal of a few 
 instruments, operating was begun. Most of this work concerned the 
 ear, nose and throat, though injured and gassed eyes were trt'ated 
 and relieved by the score. Fortunately at this time there haj)))ened to 
 be a very great number of bed cases which could not attend a clinic. 
 
 \\'ithin three weeks, however, the carpenters had made |)rogress 
 and the department moved into the clinic building. The elinic on the 
 first afternoon took care of some thirty patients and seldom since that 
 time has it dropjxd lulow that number a day, often rising to between 
 fifty and sixty. Kcniipment was soon secured for complete eye work, 
 ade(juate both for refraction and treatment. Operations on tonsils, 
 adenoids, and nose were carried on exteiisivelv until the frequency 
 of convoys and the inunediate e\acuation made mueli of this impossible. 
 Perhaps most interesting from the technical side were ear troubles due 
 to concussion and shock at the front, as well as ni;iny fai'lal injuries 
 invohing the throat and eye. It might not be amiss to state th;it at a 
 general inspection, ludd .along in September, the de])artment was coai- 
 mended for the ingenuity and ecoiuuny manifest in the arrangement 
 and operation of its clinic. Howexcr. at least one-third of the work 
 of the department was and is ))erformed outside the clinic. On the 
 arrival of each convoy, new eye. ear. nose and throat cases, confined to 
 bed^ were examined and treated in the \arious wards. On some occa- 
 sions o))erating was necessary in the wards, especially in cases of eve 
 injuries, where time counted definitely in the saving of x ision. 
 
 About the time of the armistice a change took ))lace. The eve de- 
 partment became the center for the hospitals of .\. P. O. 7.'5 1. The 
 staH of this department was auganented conspicuously. 'T-'.ar. Xose 
 ••uul Throat" became a separate de))artnu'nt with an indepeiuient clinic. 
 Tile work of hoth depart i.ents. liowt-\er. continued \igorouslv, e\-en 
 
116 On Active Service 
 
 tlu)Ugli Iiostilitif.s liad Cfascd. Soklirrs still had need of g-lasses and 
 the shop facilities for fitting them were bettered. Winter with its in- 
 clement weather favored tronhles of the ear, nose and throat. With 
 the slower proo;ress of evacuation an o])portnnity has again been 
 realized for operative work, and many ])erson.-il cases, which had to 
 wait because of the pressure heretofore, are now being attended to. 
 Prom accurate records, which have been kept on each case, the original 
 dei^artment and the "Kar, Nose and Throat." since the armistice, has 
 handled some seventeen hundred cases and fullv expects to increase 
 this lunnber before the Utopian orders finally roll in. 
 
 HARRY M. BOUVY, Captain, M. C. 
 
 thp: pharmacy 
 
 WORK on room for the pharmacy was finally started July 'i(), 
 1})1S. for it took much persuasion to get the (Quartermaster 
 Department to detail the necessary carpenters to construct shelving 
 and working counters. When these were finally completed, we had no 
 smooth suitable surface for the compounding of the various ])harmacal 
 substances. We finally located a P'renehman who was willing to 
 exchange a small jjiece of linoleum for legal tender. Everything went 
 smoothly then until Base t6 was designated as the eye clinic for the 
 center. And it was uj) to the pharmacy to give uj) part of its space 
 and be remodeled in order to })rovide the necessary room. This change 
 was soon made and we were settled once more, and strange to say, we 
 <'re still here. 
 
 The greatest bugbear to our worthy officers was known as the 
 "Metric System." The decimal ])oint re(juired ])resented many diffi- 
 culties. Especially was this true during the hot sunnner days, when 
 the flies were so numerous, for even a well-trained jiharmacist fre- 
 quently had difficulty in differentiating between an ink dot and a fly 
 speck and it was only by \igilant study of prescri|)tions that errors 
 were avoided. 
 
 In the A. E. F. the medical supply table was decidedly limited. The 
 number of drugs allowed for the operation of a base hosjjital was 
 ap))arently determined by a government clerk in the States who didn't 
 believe in medicine, for very shortly our thriving business was largelv 
 restricted to Epsom Salts, Castor Oil, Bismuth and Sodium Salicylate. 
 Since the signing of the armistice, drugs have been more difficult to 
 obtain than heretofore, and if orders do not come verv shortlv to 
 leave Bazoilles, our entire stock for all kinds of )>rescri])tions will be 
 ])ractical]y limited to Mag. Sulph. 
 
 Sergeant First Class John Seemann 
 
With Base Hospital Fohty-Six 
 
 ir 
 
 THE DENTAL DEPARTMENT 
 
 HE DENTAL DEPARTMENT of this oriranization 
 was ))erliaps the last to get into full swiiii!,-. due to iin- 
 a\()i;iahl(' delays, lack of fcjuipmcnt. etc. 'I'lic ('(iiiipmcnt 
 of this unit htforf having the States ineiuded two 
 modern and eoni})lete deiit;il outfits, which. h()we\er. 
 lia\t never r( nelied 15azoilles. The fate of this ((luipnient is not known, 
 but it is rumored that "Old Man Salvage" of the S. O. S. has only 
 recentlv established a dental clinic at lirest. where he limits his 
 practice to the treatnunt of patients of no less rank than Colonels. 
 
 It was not m\- fortune to be |)reseiit at the time Base Hospital No. 
 1() reached its station <m the outskirts of Bazoilles. as delayed ordirs 
 caused me to reach Hoboken ti\ e days after the sailing of the shi|) 
 which carried the unit to the shores of "Sumiy" I'ranci'. \ia England. 
 }L)wever. it was uw pleasure to join the outfit a month later. arri\ing 
 at Bazoilles on ,lulv "i!* from lilois, where 1 was |)l;u'ed in safe 
 kee])ing until such time as I could be trusted to travel alone to the 
 rendezvous of l(). L'pon reaching my destination. I found our old 
 friend Captain Persons, who was enthusiasm ])ersonified, saifl elation 
 being caused by the knowledge that the dental clinic was so thorough 
 and magnitie. iitly e(|uii)|)ed. 
 
 Although the da\- was well spent. Captain Parsons insisted u])on 
 an immediatt' ^•isit to the dental clinic in order that 1 might, without 
 further delay join him in his extreme l!;i))pine';s. We walked from 
 the station through the fertilized streets of Bazoilles to our objective. 
 L pon reacliing the dental clinic. I was indeed in a reeeptixc mood, 
 as I had been anticipating greatly the appearance of a well ecjuipped 
 d'lital otfiee. 
 
 .My expectation was short li\ed. ^Vith a show of gre/it pomp. 
 Ca])tain Parsons produced a I'rench key 1 i inches long and unlocked 
 a French lock weighing I I pounds and opened an American door of 
 H\-e pounds — and at first sight of the ecjuipnui't I fainted. The out- 
 fit consisted of one clock, one broom, and a pa:'king ease containing 
 tweh'e gross, cups, paper, sanitarx' No. 1 I 
 
 ^^ bile we were sans e(iui))ment. we had \'er\- comfortable office 
 (juarters until one bright uiorning in August we were notitii'd th;it it 
 would be neces'-ary for us to moxc. in order to ))ermit the extension of 
 the eye clinic. ociMipyiug a rooiu next to us. We then w,-nt into storage 
 in a small room in an adjoining building. Our cloc-k. broom, and 
 paper cups with a dental chair and several instrument closets, which 
 
118 
 
 On Ac tivk Service 
 
 we had managed to annex, were moved into this room and we en- 
 trenclied ourselves hetween said artiek's, clearing enough floor space 
 to accommodate a dental chair. W't- wer,' then in a ])osition to do 
 emergency work. 
 
 Our sojourn in tliis room was of several weeks' duration, hut we 
 finally secured })ossession of a room wliieii was remodeled to suit our 
 needs. This room was very satisfactory — in fact, all that one could 
 ask, and the equipment was of the best. 
 
 The clinic was operated along tlie lini's of a well ordered civil dental 
 office. When a case presented, all possible attention was given to 
 alleviate the sufferer and restore, as near as possible, the normal con- 
 dition of the mouth. This could not always be done, as our "practice" 
 was more or less transient. However, this was the goal toward which 
 we were striving. 
 
 This ends the contribution from tlic dental surgeons of Base Hos- 
 pital No. 4-6. 
 
 J. H. JOHXSOX, Captain, D. C. 
 
 1. Supply Train. 2. Prisoners waiting for mess. 
 3. Advance ariiard at mess liall. 
 
With 1V\sk Hostitai, I'ohtv-Six 
 
 119 
 
 THE MESS DEPARTMENT 
 
 HK\ FORTY-SIX landed in Hazoillcs tlic organiza- 
 tion was short aloiit niiir or ten cooks, so Sergeant 
 Perkins sent ont a call for men witli experience or 
 without to step in immediately and become accpiainted 
 with the work before the hos])ital heeame rilled witli 
 patients. About fourteen names besides my own were turned in. We 
 went to work the day before our mirses arrixcd. 
 
 Wv had no dishes with which to st r\ c them, so the persoiuiel was 
 called upon to share their mess kits. \\'e thought the inirses would 
 rind it hard to accustom themselves to the rude cafeteria systeni. but 
 never a complaint was heard. 
 
 We had a big moving day when we took o\ er another hospital 
 near the rirst location. It was all completed without the loss or even 
 delay of a single meal. 
 
 Things wi-nt along fairly smoothly until the patients started coming 
 in, then we struck a rougli stretch. The trouble was that it was an 
 emergency and patients were .sent to us before we were readv for tluin. 
 In less tlian two weeks we rccei\ed about a thousand patients. These 
 men were really hungry. Several had not eaten for days and prac- 
 tically all had h.ad insufticient food for the last two or thri'e weeks. 
 Our kitchen was just ])artially e(|ui])])ed and we were exjiected to feed 
 the patients and the persomul together. \\r had only four ranges 
 and a limited number of copper boilers, which m.ade it necessary to 
 limit our bill of f/ire to macaroni or "mulligan," and coffee, and to 
 cook the food in relays. The ranges were ))acked all th(> time, 
 
 I shall ne\-er forget how those hungry patients j/iuuued to get 
 through the mess hall door when we unlocked it. "Slum" was |)rac- 
 tically the only thing we could cook in suthcient (]uantitv to supph' 
 their wants. We opened two mess halls and inunedi.ately a new dirii- 
 culty arose. Patients began doubling up; that is, hurrying through one 
 mess hall and drawing a second ration froui the otlier. At oiu' time 
 wi' found al)out thirty doing this. An effort was made to sto)) this 
 practice, but it proved to be very difricult. The ticket system did not 
 ))rove altogether satisfactory, but it lieli)ed a great deal. Wv main- 
 tained it through all the crowded jjcriods. 
 
 In the mess halls, i)atient help was used almost entirely. We drew 
 men from the convalescent camp to do a round of K. P. Another 
 difHculty aros(> here, for the ))atients thought that as patients they 
 didn't have to work. It was easy to get them sent over to the kitchen, 
 but it was anotlur thing to get them to do the work. 
 
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 On Active Sekvhe 
 
 W'lifii we cxac-uattcl the first coiuoy of patiiuts. things became 
 easier, but when the second great influx started, our troubles began to 
 pick U]). It wasn't (juite as bad this time because we were better pre- 
 pared both in ecjuipment and organization, but at tliat there was 
 ])lenty to keep us working. 
 
 During the summer we were continually running out of water and 
 sometimes the water was shut off before we could draw enough to wash 
 the dishes. In such cases we packed water in small boilers. At another 
 time we ran out of soap, which was a dire calamity. Sackrider came 
 to the rescue by making something he called soap and which helped us 
 through tile enurgency. 
 
 Wv did liave a time, though, wdien the cooks got sick during our 
 rush period. How the food was cooked during this spell no one knows. 
 It was then that tlie term "madhouse" was ap))lied to the ])atients' 
 kitchen. 
 
 The crowning event of our stay in l'"r.-ince was our 'riianksgiving 
 dinner, whicii was a great success from one end to the other. By inces- 
 sant work for a month before thr dinui'r, the department was able to 
 gi\ f the ])ers()nn(l and the patients as good a meal as tliey could have 
 had anvwiierc in I'ranee; iu)r did tlic eon\alescent entertainers spare 
 anv time or work in ])re])aring the wonderful show tliey ))ut on. The 
 dinner lasted from twelve noon until ;^ :()() p .m., and none of us will 
 ever forget it. It was one of the most enjoyable events of our trip; an 
 event that will always be remrmbcrcd as an offset to the troubles we 
 
 ""^""■''- A. M. CAPPS 
 
 MKSS DKIArCllMI-.X I 
 
With Base Hospital Forty-Six 
 
 121 
 
 MESS DKPAirr.MKXT OF BASF HOSIMTAF FORTY-SIX 
 
 HFRF is a saying that t-vt-rytliiiig. no matter how small. 
 ^J must ha\c a starting ))oint. oven a base hospital mess. 
 
 ■-^W ^^'t• started \\:\y '•^J). with one baggage ear. two tiehl 
 ?x^^4 '^'^jrS T'lnges. one wagon load of gravel, three (1. I. cans and 
 v Y^ ^^CO one roll of wire. \\v were told to go ahead and e<|ui|) 
 this ear to handle two hundred and forty men. feed them well three 
 times a day. The entire staff consisted of .Mess Oltieer Fieutenant 
 Harry Blair. Mess Sergeant Perkins. Sergeant l)ury;a. and ten cooks, 
 who started to make a first-class kitchen out of the ri\e ingredients 
 nuntioned abo\t'. 
 
 \\'e received our first supplies .\Fay .'!1 at S :.'!() ,i. m.. and left (amp 
 Lewis at 1 :()() p. in. and, as befitted a Portland organization, our first 
 meal was served while sjK'cding through that city. At Parma. Idaho, 
 one of the best citizens i-ushed madl\- to the mess ear with a string of 
 "weinies" for the boys, as he knew that eventually we would reach 
 Citernian soil, so we should be prepared before hand. 
 
 \\v arri\ed at Camp .\Frritt June '). expecting to find some modern 
 conveniences; instead we found that we were better off on the train as 
 far as kitchen e(iuipment was concerned. Our Chefs dc Fuxe upon 
 their entry to the kitchen found one worn out range and four boilers 
 .■md two G. I. cans. The dipartment was immediately initiated into 
 the intricacies of the game called "beating the Q. M. ('.." or in other 
 words, obtaining sui)plii's by dint of ])erseverance. ^^'hile here the 
 cooks were hampered somewhat by having to stand fortv-two inspec- 
 tions per day. including e(iuipnu-iit "C." 
 
 finally, after six days of insi)ections, we started for Hoboken and 
 there embarked on the good shij) Mi.ssaiiahic and mess officers' and 
 sergeants' worries and cares were nil. Our next point of importance 
 was Liverpool, Fngland, where we entrained for Southampton (so- 
 called English rest camp). The "Cowherd" cam)) kitchen was ])laced 
 at our dis})osal (also to about ^200 other trooj)s). This kitchen was 
 designed to take care of about ;)()() men. However, the British rations 
 were not so plentiful as to cause much congestion in the kitchen, but 
 each man of our personnel managed to get several pieces of bacon, 
 bread and marmalade during our two days' stay. 
 
 The .Mess Department of " Mi" was not called on to function at 
 Cherbourg, except to take on the travel rations for our three davs' 
 trip from there to Bazoilles-sur-Meuse. Feeding the organization 
 from Cherbourg to Bazoilles on the b'rench train was easv, the main 
 
122 On Active Service 
 
 difficulty being to know when the train would stop long enough to 
 distribute the hard-tack, bull3'-beef. and marmalade. Along the route 
 we were served with coffee at our nunierous stops by the French and 
 American Red Cross. We enjoyed our first regular meal at Is-sur- 
 Tille. 
 
 Upon arrival at our destination, we found kitchens and dining 
 halls for personnel, officers, nurses and patients. Here our work be- 
 gan in earnest ; a personnel mess was first equipped and put into 
 operation. Our officers messed with a neighboring hospital pending 
 the equipping and furnishing of their kitchen and mess. The person- 
 nel mess was started and encountered serious difficulties in obtaining 
 supplies. However, we furnished the boys with tlie best food that 
 could be purchased at the Q. ]\I. C. After two weeks of this we were 
 ordered to equip the patients' mess to handle the personnel and our 
 long-looked-for nurses, wlio were expected to arrive at any time. The 
 nurses arrived July 16", and owing to the shortage of chinaware, they 
 were initiated into the art of wielding a mess kit. No sooner were 
 things beginning to be straightened out in our first jilace of residence 
 than we were told to move across the River Aleuse to our final location. 
 
 It was then we received notice that patients would arrive "tout 
 suite. " However, we were soon able to equip a patients' mess, person- 
 nel mess, officers' mess and nurses' mess and also the diet kitclieii. 
 The personnel mess was turned over to Sergeant Bashor, and, believe 
 the boys of "4>6" or not, he put over a daily menu that was a credit to 
 any kitchen and especially the army, as often there was none too much 
 to work with. Sergeant Sackrider's capacity as a manager was quickly 
 shown. There falls to the lot of a few in the army to take one can of 
 beans, one can of corned "willy" and two pounds of coffee and then 
 feed the string of 2()() luingry patients lined up outside the mess hall. 
 
 The diet kitchen was superintended by Miss Gertrude Palmer, 
 dietician, who came over with the nurses. By able management and 
 hard work, she supplied the liquid, light and special diets to the sick 
 and wounded boys. Her department took care of an average of 100 
 diets a day. 
 
 Our first patients arrived July 23, and the difficulties encountered 
 in the patients' mess were many. Su]jplies suitable for the sick were 
 very hard to obtain, the lack of proper variety, such essentials as fresh 
 beef, flour, sugar, milk and potatoes were not to be had at our Q. M. 
 C. However, the accommodating sergeant would inform us that there 
 was a plentiful suj)ply of tooth paste, shaving cream and cigars. For 
 
U'lTH Hash Hosimtai, I'ohtv-Six 123 
 
 instance, our first convoy canu- .S8() strong witli practically no notice. 
 Our cooks worked all night preparing sandwicliL's and coffee for the 
 half-starved men. From that time on it was a continual procession, 
 one day receiving from 100 to (iOO ])atients, next day evacu/iting 2(H) 
 to 300. A night crew was put on, which took care of all convoys arriv- 
 ing at night, also feeding night nurses and ward men. The mess 
 sergeants had to learn to "parlcz vous" to the extent of "ponnnes de 
 terres," "oeufs," etc., the latter being usually at least $1 i)er dozen. 
 Buying food in large quantities from the French markets was prac- 
 tically impossible, the I'rench considering one a nnicii better customer 
 who buvs only a few centimes' worth than a person who takes their 
 entire stock. 
 
 Our kitchen was always hampered by shortage of space, also uti'U- 
 sils. It was designed to provide for 7 •'>() and we were feeding from 
 1000 to 2000. 
 
 On August 14, Lieutenant Wm. G. Sutton, S. C, arrived to take 
 charge of the patients' and personnel mess. He innnediately organized 
 a business office and from this start he built up an elastic system which 
 could easily handle from 500 to 2000 daily. On October 1 he took over 
 the officers' mess and made a complete success out of that, and on 
 November 1 the luirses' mess was turned over to him. also. 
 
 The general run of feeding a few hundred patients and hospital 
 personnel did not detract from the Thanksgiving dinner planned for 
 the officers, nurses, personnel and patients. This dinner the personnel, 
 especially, will always remember, and in future years, when speaking 
 of good things to eat. the memory of that dinner that was served them 
 back in 1918 will bring a smile to their lips and they will not forget 
 the hard work and worry that it caused Lieutenant Sutton and the 
 Mess Department. The preparation of this dinner was started the 
 day before and from then on there was nothing to it but work. With 
 two shifts of cooks and a detail of men the dinner was prepared and 
 served to the boys at 12:.'5() Thanksgiving day. A few of the i3relimi- 
 naries for this diinier were buying turkey at $1.00 per pound and 
 fruit ranging along at the same high price. It took some head work 
 to give the boys a real feed and still retain a semblance of "the" 
 bank roll. However, it was done even to furnishing a first-class 
 cabaret with full orchestra accompaniment. 
 
 The buying for and feeding of the different messes of a hospital 
 of this size, especially in a foreign country, is a task that few people 
 realize and Base Hosj)ital Xo. i(i can be proud of the men in charo-e, 
 
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 On Active Service 
 
 DAILY LIFE IX THE BASE HOSPITAL KITCHENS 
 
 \ ONE year's time, Lhicle Sam has gained the reputa- 
 tion of being the best provider in the world. There is 
 only one secret in the achievement and that is "System." 
 One cannot have system unless those under his charge 
 cordially assist him in their coo])eration. 
 
 How many of those who read this article, even those who have been 
 in the army, also perhaps those who have not been in the mess depart- 
 ment office, have an idea of the system which is employed to keep track 
 of the numerous accounts.'^ We will study the mess kitchen of a base 
 hospital to which I was assigned. 
 
 Everv hospital is given two allowances, namely, one for the person- 
 nel members, rations in kind, and one for the oatients and nurses; 
 hence two dili'erent accounts for food supply. The mess sergeant must 
 prepare his meals accordingly to keep within his allowance or show 
 cause to the mess officer why he cainiot do so. The menus are prepared 
 daily, commencing with noon-day meal, including breakfast of the 
 ensuing day, then submitted to the mess officer for approval. 
 
 We must consider, that at a base hospital evacuation work, \n-\n- 
 cipally, is perfornu'd ; transient cases mostly. Their total number 
 fluctuates daily and sometimes hourly, ^^'hen the commissary has not 
 all the articles required for the very sick, such as eggs, chickens, green 
 vegetabl(>s. etc.. we nuist make arrangements for the purcliase from the 
 civilians at nearby towns, having to pay five times as much as we would 
 if we purchased from the Q. M. Department. Still we must have them 
 and we managed in most eases to get what we wanted. Then there is 
 the problem of trans])orting these sujiplies from this town to our hos- 
 pital, four miles away. 
 
 Has anvone ever realized the amount of food recjuired to relieve 
 the hunger of hundreds of men just admitted from the front, having 
 had nothing but bully beef and liard tack at various intervals during 
 the battle, from which they have come, ready to eat us out of house and 
 home three times a day, especially when they have been in the hospital 
 for a (lav or two? Numbers vary almost daily. Here is where system 
 comes into i)lav. For instance, at Base' Hospital No. Ki. where, as I 
 have related before, we were performing evacuation work to a great 
 extenL the number of patients varying daily from 100 to laOO, de- 
 ])ending r.pon the size of the convoys and the number e\acu ilfd. How 
 c.-iu tile senior mess sergeant tell what to do? Sup])ose we draw r;itions 
 for 600 per day for three days; then comes a daily evacuation of 100 
 or more f-.ir six davs ; then a lull for a week or ten davs, when all of a 
 
With Base Hospital Forty-Six 125 
 
 s>i.];lrii ;< ''irii-f f()ii\()\- fonifs in |)lnfini>- our p.itiriil status at over 
 I.i);)(). ^^'ould tliat situation niakt- one antic'ii)atf sonutliing wrong? 
 Hut wliv worry? You ask liow does the mess officer make his plans so 
 that the food will he Mitfieient for all, simultaneously, renirmher. tiiat 
 the planning upon a certain iiumher of men may i)e increased at a 
 moment's notice. 
 
 Provisions in the army can he prepared for '2. ()()() ahnost as easily 
 as for 1 .()()(). In fact, we ha\(' always been able to show a saving for 
 the hospital fund with a larger (piantity of men to t'cvd. Strange — hut 
 it is true as e\ ideneed hy the hoarding house, wlien the proi)rietor 
 can show a balance on .')(», but a deficit as a rule on .'?(). Again, I have 
 rxpcrienced th.nt there is less waste with a larger nundier of diners. If 
 plans call for (piantities of food, which I find cannot l)e eaten at the 
 meal (the left-overs, those that have not been served), can be used, by 
 being camouflaged for another meal, by the addition of other articles 
 of food, or by being ruled by di])lomacy in pre])aring food, the loss can 
 lie turned into a sa\ing or profit. This oiu' plan, since being tlu' mess 
 officer, works fine in the army and one would be sur{)rised at statistics 
 in revealing balances on the right side of the ledger. The army wants 
 good, wholesome food and i)lenty of it, too. 
 
 The best body builders — good food and exercise, also plenty of good 
 drinking water. Beef, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, onions, corn and peas, 
 are greatlv used, also oatmeal and bran. Potatoes are served twice 
 daily, due to the food value. 
 
 We are given definite allowances by the U. S. govermnent and we 
 uuist keep this side of the line and our object in view is to give good 
 food and vet save. In the stated instances, waste has been kept to the 
 mininunn. while m.ixinunn proficiency is ])rocured. 
 
 The supper is the most substantial meal, but the (juantity of food 
 hardly com])arcs with the noon meal. 
 
 How system is a])])lied: So nmeh system has to he })racticed in a 
 hospital mess, in the preparation of meals and the storage of foods, 
 that the heads of departments are always on the alert for emergencies 
 and know what (juality and (luantity of food will be necessary. It is 
 an easy matter to prepare for any influx or evacuation at any time, so 
 jjcrfect is our system. Each department head, personnel, patients' and 
 mirses' mess have records to show actual quantity of food on hand at 
 all times. They show. too. that their stock should not be allowed to 
 fall below a certain mininunn (juantity and endeavor to kec]) the 
 (juantities to a reasonable stri'iigth to be on the safe side. I have 
 found, personally, that ])reparation and system work together fine. 
 ^^'. (;. SUTTOX. Second Lieutenant. M. C. 
 
12b" 
 
 On Active Sekvk e 
 
 THE MEDICAL SUPPLY DEPARTMENT 
 
 KiiisT Lt. C'has. V. liorr.nix, Officer in Charge 
 Sgt. First Class Adolph L. Blorli Pvt. First Class William J. Paeth 
 
 Sgt. Clarence H. Harris 
 Pvt. First Class llov E. Cnrnatlian 
 
 Pvt. First Class Willis S. Asliley 
 Pvt. First Class .Morris Weil 
 
 HIXCjS did not bfgiii to r( ally "pop" around tlic Mrd- 
 (^^^7 ical Snjjplv Department until after the unit had reached 
 [Jm/ tJK'ir destination in Erance. L^p to this time the property 
 , ,^>^w con.sisted of" three field desks, three tvijewriters and one 
 >?2_Sr^^A2i> "Par. 9o8." Yes, indeed, the total responsibility of" the 
 department could easily have been carried in the vest pocket of" one 
 Adolph I>. Bloch. who up to this time was Vice President, Secretary- 
 Treasurer, and General ^Lanager of" the de})artment. Captain Otis B. 
 \A'ight was the only other stockholder in the concern. 
 
 Shortly after our arrival in the little village of Bazoilles-sur-Meuse, 
 Captain ^^'ight was relieved as medical supply officer by Ca})tain Otto 
 W. Koch. 
 
 I'ERSONXRl, MKDICAL Sl'l'TLV DKIWKTMENT 
 
With IJase Hosimt.m> Forty-Six I'i? 
 
 Tlir hard work started on July IS). wIkii it was kariicd that thirty- 
 tree carloads of medical .siipi)lies were on the tracks waiting to be un- 
 loaded. At the same time we were moving from one side of the Meiise 
 River to a better location on tlie other. The work inxoKcd practically 
 all of the detachment, and long hours were spent in making the hos- 
 ))ital in readiness for ])atients. Beds had barely been set uj) in the 
 wards, and boxes and su])plies were still being opened, when a conxoy 
 of 2:'>() ])atients was reeei\i(l. Tliis situation inv()lved many difficulties 
 in an effort to supply the !u)s])ital necessary medcines and ecjui])- 
 ment, and at the sami' time keej) accurate records. 
 
 Other cars contimicd to come in; convoys continued to arri\f. and 
 w" had many sleepless nights. But in s])ite of all, the ))lace was finally 
 rounded into sha))e so that the sup]>ly bnilding would make Sears, Roe- 
 buck and Company look like thirty cents. Boxes were juggled about, 
 containing everything from motorcycles to safety jjins; but eventually 
 quite a record of efficiency was established in the operation of the 
 department. New hospitals coming into the valliy would send men to 
 Base Hospital Ki to ascertain just how the system was established. 
 
 Then on August l,"). Captain Koch was relieved by Lieutenant Chas. 
 F. Bouldin. Under his cajjable management, the sui)ply department 
 was gradually perfected. There were troubles of course, as might nat- 
 urally be expected; but when the difficulties were placed before the 
 "Li^^ut.," he would wrap his long legs around the little b'reneh stove 
 in the office and mildly proclaim, "The first seven years of the war are 
 always the hardest." 
 
 In addition to eciuipping the hospital, and issuing nee.ssary medi- 
 cines and accessories, the laundry exchange was established. This 
 branch of the department was in chargi^ of Private First Class Willis 
 .'^. Ashley, assisted by Morris Weil. Judging from the experience 
 gained in this undertaking, it would not surprise any of us to find 
 them operating the largest laundry in the Northwest one of these fine 
 days. 
 
 The ])aper work in the office of the Medical Su])ply Department was 
 increased considerably b\- numerous inventories, bookkeeijing, corre- 
 spondence and filing, until Carl Steimnetz was added to the force to 
 assist liloeli and Carnatlian. The office was small, crudely furnished, 
 and the lack of files and material with which to work was a great 
 handicap. 
 
 Sergeant Harris, who shouldered the responsibility of the warehouse 
 and issue room, was abl\- assisted bv Wm. Paeth. the laiikv rano'er 
 
128 On Active Service 
 
 and vegetarian from \\'a.'sliington. "I'ourtecn Carrot liill." as lie was 
 commonlv known, was responsible for the neat eonstruetion of our 
 shelves, file boxes, etc. He was always on hand to make chocolate for 
 anv little lunch we might plan after a hard dav's work. 
 
 Some idea of the immense amount of work connected with the de- 
 partment can be gained from the size of the hospital. At the time the 
 armistice was signed bv Germany, the entire capacity of the hosjjital 
 was two thousand three hundred beds, the largest lios])ital in the 
 vallev bv three hundred beds. 
 
 One of the chief reasons which might be attributed to the successful 
 operation of the Medical Supply Department, was the cooperation of 
 the entire force, and desire of each man to do his best. We might add 
 in closing that the experience will be vitally iuiport.-uit to the members 
 of the department in future undertakings. 
 
 ROY E. CARXATHAN 
 
With Bask Hosimiai, Forty-Six 
 
 1-29 
 
 A RESUME OF THE QUARTERMASTER DEPARTMENT 
 
 ROM tlif date of mobilization of Base Hospital if) in 
 Marcli, 1918, when the Quartermaster Department 
 issued its first suj)ply of canvas trousers of a strikinjj 
 Vfllow line and cotton coats that mitjht pass for oli\c 
 green in color until the unit completed its mission at 
 Bazoilles-sur-Meuse. the joys, trials, and tribulations of the Quarter- 
 master Dejiartment were many and \ aried. 
 
 The first duty of tlie (Quartermaster was to ()utfit the enlisted per- 
 sonnel with clothing and complete^ field equipment. This task was 
 partially accom])lished at Portland and after some weeks of strenu- 
 ous fffort was completed at Camp Lewis. The next duty was the han- 
 (lling of trans])ortation o\i'rseas for tlie officers and enlisted men and 
 of all |)ersonal baggage. 
 
 Not until we arrixed overseas and wt're f.airlv well establisiied did 
 we begin to realize of what our duties as a Quartermaster Department 
 in a Medical Unit consisted, ^^'e started in with a transportation 
 department and to this was added in rapid succession, carpentering, 
 jilumbing, sterilizing, clothing and effects de))artment ; the probkan of 
 supplying wood and coal for fuel and of ))olieing the grounds and 
 keeping tliem in a sanitary condition also fell to our lot and last but 
 I'ot least we also conducted an undei'taking establishment. 
 
 Just a word about transportation: A few days after our destination 
 was reached word was joyfully received that we might have two large 
 trucks and two cute little side cars if a detail of drivers were dis- 
 patched at once to Bordeaux. Of course nearly e\erv man in the unit 
 was an expert meclianic and driver and all promptly voiiuiteered their 
 -icrvices. The ]iroeess of elimination was brought into i)lay, the re- 
 quired number of drixcrs tried and true selected and given traveling 
 orders and one fine morning about a week later we found quite an 
 imjiosing array of motor transportation lined up in front of the Ad- 
 ministration Building. Our joy was short lived, however, for a centra] 
 transportation department was created and our trucks and side cars 
 were ordered pooled with those of other organizations in the center and 
 thereafter wlien transportation of any kind was needed it was neces- 
 sary to telephone for a tru( k and then take whatexcr the dis])ateher 
 might send, when he decided to send it. 
 
 The major part of the l)uildings oecu})ietl by our unit were c-on- 
 structed prior to our arrival. l)ut our carpenters were kept busy with 
 a varied and never-ending linr of repairs. There were leakv roofs. 
 
130 Ox Active Skrvice 
 
 doors that rt-fuscd to opfii or close, partitions to he ino\ t'd and numer- 
 ous stoves to be installed. 
 
 Then there was the plumbing department. The man in charge knows 
 the plumbing game as well as Ambassador Girard knew the Kaiser, 
 but says he never built sink traps out of tin cans before or made stove 
 pipe out of scraps of sheet iron ; neither had he ever been compelled 
 to melt old tin cans to secure solder. He started his plumbing shop 
 '!! France with an antiquated French hammer, a broken pair of pliers, 
 and a bicycle wrench. Later, quite a respectable kit of tools appeared 
 in his shop, though where they came from no one seemed to know, 
 but the engineer organization that had been stationed at the Center 
 moved out shortly after the armistice was signed and 'twas rumored 
 that it was on account of a shortage of tools. At nuy rate, whenever 
 ttl needed anything they generally got it. 
 
 The sterilizer jdant, better known as the "Cootie Kitchen, " was ])re- 
 sided over by a capable engineer. It was here, gentle reader, tiiat 
 capital ])unishment was meted out to all germs and cooties after tluir 
 death sentence had been duly read to them at the receiving ward. Regu- 
 lations i^rovide that all cooties must be cooked by steam for thirty 
 miiuites under forty pounds of pressure; after this treatment a cootie 
 could generally be considered "hors de combat. " 
 
 The fuel problem was a serious one for a while — serious chiefly 
 !)ecause of a lack of transportation. This was eventually solved by 
 night details for hauling coal and I might add that a heav}' load was 
 lifted from the detachment sergeant's shoulders because these night 
 details furnished a large field when he wished to assign a little disci- 
 plinary duty for failure to answer reveille or retreat. Transportation 
 did not prove to be the only coal difficulty encountered because there 
 were some who persisted in making nocturnal calls at the coal pile 
 and sorting out the nice large lumps. In order to stop this we found 
 it necessary to ask the already over worked guards to kec]) an eye on 
 the coal. 
 
 Of all our work perhaps the most difficult was the undertaking work. 
 Difficult because it was hard to lay away tlie boys who had made the 
 supreme sacrifice for liberty; difficult because we knew that some one 
 some where was waiting for the hoys that would never return; difficult 
 because we could do nothing to lighten tiie burden of grief that must 
 fall like a pall when the stern, cold message went home from the War 
 Department. We gave each a military funeral; sometimes a single 
 brief service was held for one of tlie bovs who had answered the last 
 
With Base Hospital Fohtv-Six 131 
 
 roll; atjain it was for fivi' or six and sonii'tinu's lor ten or twthf. This 
 (k-partnu'iit was also charg-cd with the duty of colk'cting, listing, and 
 forwarding to the war dejiartment all money, trinkets, and personal 
 effects of the deceased and had to see that all graxc nunihers were 
 2>romptly .and ])roperly registered. 
 
 CLIFFORD (t. SCHNEIDER, First Sgt. Q. M. Dr])t. 
 
 I have never heard before that the (Quartermaster Dep.irtment was 
 supposed to do anvthing more literary than make out re(|uisitions or 
 pay checks. We had to shovel coal as well as gather the tin cans, and 
 were glad to do it, hut I a])))roach this task with temerity and mis- 
 givings. However, being in the army I am expected to do what T .am 
 told, but I want it clearly understood that I am being driven to it. 
 
 Fortunately, I don't have to write very much, as most of the space 
 in this ))ublication is .already taken u]) by unimportant departments 
 %vho have "horned in " for .a little advertising. A few words about our 
 work is enough, .•inyw.ay. because every body knows it is the funda- 
 mental p.art of tile army. 
 
 Before the w.-ir the American Army consisted of the fighting arms 
 and some eight or nine services, among them the Adjutant General's 
 Department, the Inspector General's Department, the Judge Advo- 
 cate's Department, the Medical Corps, the Quartermaster Corps, the 
 Ordnance Corps, the Sign.il Corj)s .and the Engineer C()r])s. Since the 
 outbreak of hostilities tliis number has l)een somewh.it increased. 
 
 According to the (^ii.artermaster Manual, there .ire H\ c m.ain func- 
 tions of the Quartermaster Corps, viz: Fin.anee ,iiid Accoiiiiting. Sup- 
 plies. Building .and Rcp.iirs. Tr.ansport.ition ;iiid Administr.ation. 
 Somewhere in this s.ame book is ;i list of ,ill the duties of 
 the Corps in detail, but the .author .apparently r.an out of ideas toward 
 the end because he ended by s.iying that "Anything not specially 
 assigned to another corps is the duty of the Quartermaster Corps." 
 and no doubt th.at is the cl.iusc under authority of which I .am now 
 required to write this .article. 
 
 For ;il)out three months I h.ive been trying to dope out the duties and 
 functions of .a hospit.il (lu.irterm.aster. .and .as f.ar .as I can see he is a 
 sort of glorified j.anitor. undert.aker and f ootrest ; his duties seem to 
 embrace .all five of the .above mentioned branches in a kind of a half- 
 baked, tinbryonic f.ashion. so I will try to set out our work showing 
 it divided into the five aforesaid divisions. 
 
132 On Active Servick 
 
 Our part in tlii' T'lnancf and Accounting branch consi^its in paying- 
 off the patients "every once in a wliile" (there is very little money in 
 this, as the Adjutant is always right tlicre). I liave heard a good many 
 times that the men in the hospitals are not ])aid sometimes for as long 
 as six months or more. There is a certain amount of truth in this, of 
 course, but the Quartermaster Corps is not to blame, as those cases 
 usually occurred because the soldier didn't stay in one place long 
 ftnough to sign a payroll and receive the money. But ordinarily, when 
 conditions are projiitious tliis department disburses j'jart-jiay to lios- 
 pital patients. 
 
 Supplies: W'f have nothing to do with pro\isioning tlu' liospital, as 
 our mess officer works directly with the Hospital Center Quartermaster 
 for which I am very thankful, because he is the only one I have ever 
 encountered that gave 100 per cent satisfaction. He. however, repre- 
 sents the supplies branch through the instrumentality of the Clothing 
 and Effects Department, which is one of the efficiently run institutions 
 in this hospital. The idea of the Clothing and Effects is to clothe the 
 patients as quickly as possible with due regard for economy, and this 
 is tile manner in which it is done. When the convoys of new patients 
 arrive, our Clothing and Effects "gang" take the clothing of all 
 patients, except where it is necessary for tlie health of the patient to 
 leave them in his possession; these clothes are put in a gunny sack and 
 given a serial number. As soon as possible the sacks are 2)ut through 
 the steam sterilizer, or "Cootie Kitchen." where all sorts of birds and 
 beasts are killed and dried; then the sacks are returned to the Clothing 
 and Effects room, where the clothing is gone over and all garments that 
 are too soiled to wear, torn or otherwise unfit are salvaged, the cloth- 
 ing found to be serviceable is put in a bin bearing the same serial 
 mnnber that was placed in the sack in the receiving ward. Great care 
 must be taken that leather goods are not put through the sterilizer 
 because they come out about the consistency of a soda cracker. Money 
 and valuables are also removed from the clothing, if overlooked by 
 the patient, and o])timistically turned over to the Quartermaster for 
 safe keeping — the Adjutant having notliing to do with this! 
 
 Of course there is nuieh clotliing salvaged and it must be replaced in 
 order to reoutfit the soldier when he is ready again for a uniform and 
 equipment. M^- draw sufficient clothing from the group quartermaster 
 for this purpose. P'requently it is invoiced, often we get it on requisi- 
 tion — sometimes by mistake! The paper work is rather vague in this 
 connection, but we sign as little as })ossible. 
 
With Base Hospital Forty-Six 1.'5.S 
 
 Building aiu] IJcp.-iirs : So far \vc liaxtii'l done any l)uil(lin<i- of 
 moment, but haxc done lots of re})airs — at least we call them repairs. 
 For my part. I think our earpenters have done exeellent work and 
 have even overheard oiu- ()Hi;'er, after a g'ood mail, refer to them ;is 
 "nearlv human. ' wliieh was very gratifyiny,-. I lia\r never heard ol" 
 anvthing along these lines being satisfactory to the medical officers, 
 but that shows impartiality. 
 
 Transportation: In this unit our transportation consists of three 
 wooden wheelbarrows, one steel wheelbarrow and two litter carts, with 
 German prisoners, convalescent patients, cor])s men or "Frogs tor 
 motive power. All other transportation is controlled by the Hospital 
 Center for the benefit of all the hospitals and that is unquestionably 
 the correct idea, but notwithstanding that, it has been the scarcest 
 thing in the \^osges. to such an extent that most of our heavy trucking 
 has had to be done at night. 
 
 Administration: I can't very well give an exam])le of the Adminis- 
 tration branch, not knowing exactly what it means, but fOr lack of a 
 better classification and to get through with this article (juickly. we 
 will call the undert.aking administrative. 
 
 Having raised the veil, allowing th.e layman to ga/e upon the rami- 
 fications and mystery of our incomparable work, it is to be hoped that 
 the reader be uplifted without losing the erstwhile reverence which 
 familiarity sometimes dissipates. 
 
 r. A. \\KLLS. Second Lieutenant. (^ M. C. 
 
 THE ELFCTRK P()\\1-,R PLANT 
 
 THE ELECTRIC power plant in the hos|)ital grounds was built 
 by the U. S. Engineers; it is '2 1 by .'i'J fecL and lias .1 concrete 
 Hoor. Three generating sets with switch b.oards constitute its equip- 
 ment. The dynamos are of the Thomson-Houston 17 K. W . 110 I). C. 
 tyjie. driven by three four-cylinder De Dion Bouton gasoline motors. 
 
 Tl>e plant furnishes electricity for all the wards, officers, (juarters, 
 X-Ray operating room. eti-. The entire output of the three generating 
 sets will furnish enough electricity for approximately ','.()()() '•2.'J-Watt 
 l.unps. Two lUiits suffice to carry the necessary load nearly all the time. 
 
 Electricity is also supplied from our pl.-mt to the V. M . ('. A. hut 
 for lighting ])urposes and four times per week for the moving picture 
 machine. The camj) steam laundrv is also sujjplied from our ])lant and 
 lights are furnished to the salvage department, -.vhere over 1() French 
 iiirls are employed s/ihaging clothing for L'nele Sam. 
 
13i 
 
 On Actia'e Service 
 
 Eacli base hospital has its own power plant and for a while the 
 ])lants were run individually, under the supervision of the Quarter- 
 iiiaster Department of each hospital. This did not prove successful 
 from an efficiency standi)oint, and consequently all the plants were 
 ])ut under control of the Hospital Center. The plants were connected 
 to gether in such a manner that on.' would suj)ply electricity to two 
 base hospitals during the day, when the load was liglit. thus saving- 
 gasoline and wear. Bickford, in charge of our plant, was made chief 
 mechanic of all plants at the Center. We had a day and a night 
 oj^erator. 
 
 A street lighting system was put in through the village from the 
 liospital to the railroad station. 
 
 Two things will be remembered by the force .is being distinct fea- 
 tares of their daily routine of army life at the plant; one, the continual 
 "fixing" of the lights at the nurses' quarters caused by their steady use 
 of the electric iron, while the other was the wading through the mud to 
 get into or out of the power plant. 
 
 SANITARY DEPARTMENT 
 
 z ^MAGINE a 
 ^ itants, withi 
 
 an inland city of from ,")()() to "^OOO inhab- 
 ithout a sewerage system, and you will have 
 some concejition of the sanitary problems that confronted 
 liase Hospital i() during their stay in Erance. To make 
 matters more difficult, the Erench Government prohib- 
 ited the burial of refuse. Consequently all waste materials had to 
 be burned. 
 
 In the beginning of camp activities, our sanitary scjuad was made 
 ti]) of men doing disciplinary duty as penalty for some minor military 
 cffense. College men, professional men; in fact, men from all walks of 
 life served on this detail; not because they were criminally bad, or to 
 use the favorite expression, "Hard Boiled." Indeed not. But in the 
 iirmy it is always eas}^ to get a detail for disagreeable tasks when no 
 one is willing to volunteer. 
 
 Every morning on schedule time the squad made its rounds. All 
 licjuid waste was emptied into a soakage pit, solids were taken to the 
 destructor and burned. All mixtures of solids and liquids went through 
 :i straining process before it was possible to burn or filter tlie waste. 
 3.1any were the complaints: "I joined the armv but not to do this." 
 
With Bask Hosi-itai- 1''()1!T\ -Six 135 
 
 For time to come the men who served on this drtail will li;ivc stron-r 
 and vivid reeollretions of their duties whcncxfr this department is 
 mentioned. 
 
 Witli the intinx of patients the men serving- (ni this detail were o-iveii 
 other dnties, and the i>-overnment furnished us ti\e I'reneh civilians, 
 who performed all scavenger tasks. These men. aeeustomed to such 
 labor, took to it like ducks to the water, therehy reliiving us of a very 
 .serious ditHcultv. Transportation of this waste w.'is another trouble- 
 some jiroblem. Some days we had a team, other days an auto truck, 
 and on several occasions no transportation at all. Conditions w^ere 
 i>etting critical when they organized a sanitary sciuad at the hospital 
 headquarters. This squad consisted of two large Quad auto trucks, 
 with drivers, and two additional men to assist in loading and unload- 
 ing. There were seven hospitals in this center, and it took these two 
 crews working from eight to twelve hours each day to keep the hos- 
 pitals from accumulating waste and rubbish. 
 
 During the summer months. Hies put in their appearance by the 
 }nillions. A few hundred yards from our camj) was a French village, 
 each family in tierce competition with its neiglil^or. as these jieasant 
 ))eople measure their riches by the number of stock owned, and indi- 
 rectly bv the size of the manure ]ules. These manure piles, basking in 
 the summer's sun were the latest, best and most efhcient tly incubators 
 possible, if results can be taken as a criterion. Our camp was infested 
 with flies. We found them in the coffee, souj). and all other edibles. 
 Quite fre(iuentl\- we were ]H\stered with hornets who fought with us 
 over jam or other sweets we were fortunate (Miough to \\:\yr on the table. 
 
 Such conditions were contrary to all laws of sanitation, and our 
 sanitary ins])ector took steps toward a remedy. \"ainly we sought the 
 (Quartermaster's I )ep.irtment for screen. They were always out of that 
 .irticle until the inspector made headcjuarters a visit and interviewed 
 the Lieutenant in charge. On returning he brought back all the screen 
 there was to be found in Ha/oilles and Neufchateau. This was otdy .i 
 beginning — our combat with the flies ceased — conditions grew worse — 
 we renewed the battle, and this time our C'hajdain came to our rescue. 
 Through the Rerl Cross lie was able to furnish u^ material for screen- 
 ing all the doors and windows in the mess halls, kitclieus and latrines. 
 It fenced the pesky fly out of our food, and who knows but this may 
 have saved one or many of us a severe illness. 
 
 Supplying the cam]) with drinking water came under this depart- 
 ment. This w;;s no eas\- matter, i'or durin<)' the sununer months all 
 
1,'56 On Active Service 
 
 drinking water had to be chlorinated, an attempt to kill all danger- 
 ous and hirking germs. Our supply of water came from a large con- 
 crete tank on the hill. Where it came from before reaching the tank no 
 one ever knew but the engineers, and they never said. Rumors say it 
 cam from a spring. Other reports that it cam.' from the Meuse River, 
 which idled through town collecting all the dirt and filth possible. In 
 fact, during the driest part of t!ie season, when the river was at its 
 jowest, our water sui)ply became exhausted, and it was no uncounnon 
 sight to see the men washing with a few dr()])s of water from their 
 ■ •anteens. 
 
 Our first serious shortage occurred one midnight. The water had 
 been shut o.f all day and the water connnissioner whose duties were 
 to keep the lister bags, scattered throughout camp, full of chlorinated 
 water, had been unable to fill them. The hospital was full of patients 
 suffering from wounds or illness, and they required drinking water. 
 The night ward men had to have it also, so the inspector was aroused. 
 He gathered a detail and set out in search for water. The town pum]), 
 several hundred yards from camp, proved our salvation, and along in 
 the wee hours of the morning the task of filling the lister bags had 
 been completed. The })atients had drinking water such as it was, but 
 the best to be found. 
 
 The cooks and kitchen police suffered the gravest trials during this 
 drought, ^^vlter for cooking and washing dishes l;a:l to be carried 
 from the town pump, and when yon are feeding 1 ;)()() to "^OOO in- 
 dividuals, this is no easv task. 
 
\\ ITH Base Hospital Foutv-Six 
 
 is: 
 
 THE CHAPKL. AM) THK C'HAPI.AI NS WORK 
 
 1' WAS on I'raiic:' s " I nde])t'iidtiu'i- Day. tlif day wlit-ii 
 the last (jtruiaii ort'cnsivi- hfy-an. tliat tli/ tirsL rcliu;ioiis 
 siTvicf of tlu' unit in I"rancc was held. A \ acant ward 
 was used, the liciulirs had hvru hurriedly mamitactiircd 
 h\- a detail the day h.t'ore. and the origan had been 
 borrowed from the C'ha])lain of another h(,s|)ital. At this service the 
 Chaplain proposed that an orphan l:e adopted by the unit, and the 
 siiggcstion bore fruit in the adoption of Mauriee (iousselot. whose 
 i'atlier liatl l)een killed in the tirst month of the war. 
 
 Ht^'ore the next Suiulav tl;e unit had mo, cd to new (juarters across 
 the ri\er. ,and ser\ices were held that day in the Nurses' (lul) of Base 
 Hos])ital No. IS. ;it that time shar. d liy both units. The Chaplain 
 was ha\in<i- ditficult\- in yt tting space t"or the ('ha])el. That iirst 
 .assigned was })resentl\- taken for the morgue, the next location was 
 found suitable for the guard house, and the third cx))erinicnt saw the 
 (']iai)el displaced by the isolation ward. These days of getting settled 
 were marked by kaleidoscopic changes, and the Chaplain fared like 
 Xoah's dove. Finally, through the good offices of Major Benson, one- 
 lialf of the building occu))ied by the laboratory was secured, and 
 proved very satisfactory. There tlie services were held on Sundays 
 and sometimes on week days — including the funeral services when pos- 
 
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 CHAI'KI.— OIK CHMM.AIN 
 
138 
 
 Ox Active Service 
 
 sible; and the saiiif (luarters were used by the Personnel Club, of which 
 some account is given elsewhere in this xolunie. 
 
 The Chaplain's work, in keei)ing with the ])ur])ose of a hosi)ital, is 
 first of all for the welfare of the jjatients, and Isas neither beginning 
 nor end nor any \ ery definite outline. When the hospital is unrler full 
 lieadway, if the Chaplain is not as busy as anybody he is shirking his 
 dutv, and in quiet times there is still unlimited opportunity for him 
 to make himself useful even if the calls are less argent. 
 
 It goes without saying that there are many of our young soldiers 
 whose religious training at liome has disposed them to look for help 
 in their hour of need to the faith of their fatlurs. \\'ith them it is 
 only necessary for the Chaplain to present himself to receive an earnest 
 welcome. On the other hand, there are many whose religious experi- 
 ence has not been sufficient to establish an initial bond with the Chap- 
 lain, yet their receptivity to the a])pi al of faith has been developed 
 l)y what they have seen and felt on the battlefield; they ha\e prayed, 
 perhaps for the first time in years; it is for the Chaplain to meet them 
 on their own ground and to give such encouragement as his svmpathy 
 and judgment may suggest. 
 
 The most eft'ective part of the Chaplain's work is doubtless that 
 which is the least formal, and therefore any attempt at description is 
 not likely to convey the truth. Those who know best what he has ac- 
 I'omplished are scattered on diverse paths, having passed through the 
 hospital and gone — whither he does not know. Lives may touch each 
 other, but for a moment and these contacts may sometimes leave ])erina- 
 nent effect. T'lie Chaplain's message may be but a tiny seed, yet sown 
 ir. soil fresh-broken by war's tremendous experiences it mav strike root. 
 .^\ich. at least, is the ho])e which kee])s the Cha))l;iiii at his task. 
 
 THE RED CROSS 
 .M()X(i the many and diverse activities of the Red Cross 
 in army hospitals the supjily of comforts to the sick and 
 wounded soldiers as they arrive and during their stay 
 is one of the most effective. It must be remembered that 
 most of them have lost their personal effects somewhere 
 between the dugout and the base hospital, and arrive minus all necessi- 
 ties of comfort — also, usually, without funds, having received no pay 
 for months. 
 
 A wounded man, lying on a stretcher, waiting to be taken to the 
 ward, may want a smoke; a cigarette is at hand. After a good sleep in 
 a real bed he begins to think of the toilet articles he misses; a "dittv 
 
\\ iTii Base Hosimtal I'ohtv-Six 
 
 181) 
 
 bag" containing tlie elfnientary nect'ssitics is ready. It" lie is able to 
 look at the papers he finds one at hand each morning; and later he gets 
 ihe benefit of" the magazine service from Paris. When he wants to write 
 a letter home he finds Red Cross stationery in the ward. During his 
 convalescence there are games and puzzles to lighten tiic dragging 
 hours, and when he gets up he is given a Red Cross convalescent suit^ 
 and maybe a Red Cross sweater. As soon as he is al)le to get out he 
 finds his way to the Red Cross Recreation Hut, with its canteen. |)iano, 
 L'dliard talile and movies. 
 
 The Red Cross Home Connnunication Service is at his dis|)()sal in 
 case he has any worries about home conciitions. It" the matter is urgent 
 .': cablegram may be sent to the States and a messenger sent directly 
 t') his home to straighten things out and re])ort back. The Red Cross 
 Searcher, in addition to her duty of" seeking information about the 
 missing and those who are being incjuired for by their friends, does a 
 thousand things for soldiers who are incapacitated, writing letters, 
 giving advice, encouragement and sympathy, supplementing the 
 womanly touch of the nurses in a s))liere of her own. The Chaplain, 
 .ilso provided by the Red Cross, seeks to keep the soldier, during his 
 hours of pain and weariness, in union with the source of strength wdiich 
 religious faith alone can su])ply. to give him sjii ritual su]i]iort in the 
 valley of the shadow, if he is called to enter it. and to su))plv the 
 (•(tices of the churcii in burial when that sad neccssitv arises. 
 
 CHRISTMA.S IN A HOSl'ITAI. WARD 
 
140 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 OREGON NURSES GLADDEN HEARTS OF FRENCH 
 KIDDIES 
 
 N the afternoon of December (), in their attractive cluh 
 room, the nurses of Base Hospital Xo. K) gave a really, 
 truly Christmas tree to more than one hundred little 
 I-'rcneli ehihlreit from the \illaQ,'e of Bazoilles-sur- 
 M''use. Many of the children were from the or])hanage, 
 lieing the unfortunate victims of war. 
 
 For se\fral days the nurses, aided by Father Din;in, and the other 
 members of the persoiniel, worked to make the event a success. 
 
 Tree decorations, toys, candies, and dainty eats were prepared. Fifty 
 or more rag dolls, brown dolls, white and blue dolls, both large and 
 small. F2ach nurse worked out some original idea, which made everv 
 doll individual and attractive. Candy sacks were made of gauze run 
 Ihrough with bright colored yarn and the contents therein were of 
 the very best home-made candies. Each child received a toy or two. 
 a sack of candy, a package of gum and a funny little crepe paper 
 chapeau. 
 
 The custom of celebrating the sixth of December as petite Cln-ist- 
 mas, which is St. Nicholas Day, is a localism adopted by the particular 
 locality. The wooden shoes are always placed before the fireplace for 
 .St. Nicholas to put gifts into — so few of the cliildren, if any. had 
 ever seen a Christmas tree. When they filed into the club room and 
 beheld the toy-laden tree, it is nt)t to be mar\eled at that they looked 
 dazed and bewildered, and when real, live St. Nicholas entered, all 
 dressed in robe of brightest red trimmed with white fur, their looks of 
 bewilderment gave way to squeals of childish glee: but it brought 
 tears to the eyes of those who had made the event for the s;id-faced 
 little fellows. 
 
 Each nurse took charge of one or two ehildri'n and aided them in 
 receiving their toys. They were served jelly sandwiches, two kinds of 
 cookies and cocoa, to all of which they did justice. 
 
 Father Dinan has told the nurses that it was a great event in the 
 lives of the children — that for days following they talked of little else. 
 They had been told about and had read of St. Nicholas, but to see a 
 really, truly, living St. Nicliolas was a thing they had never expected. 
 
With Bask Hospital Forty-Six 
 KIDDIKS OF FRAXCF 
 
 lU 
 
 (^Uft-r littlf kiddies of l''r.aiu-f. 
 
 Is it vour a])r()n or is it your p.iuts 
 
 That gives you the h)ok of a half frig-l.tened thing. ' 
 
 We wouhi h)\c to t( ac-li you to laugh aiul to sing. 
 
 Your eves are so big aiul so rouiul and sad. 
 Fs it because the Hun killed your dad r 
 And \()u. little girl, with l)ig eyes of blue, 
 ^'our sister but se\ en and you. only two. 
 
 All sununer long we have watched you 
 
 Each day herding your cows, 
 
 Never stopping to l^lay. 
 
 We have been, O, so sorry for you. 
 
 We wanted so uuicli to do something to make you 
 
 Forget the past years 
 
 That have meant to you only sorrow and ivar.s, 
 
 So we decicled on St. Nicholas Day 
 
 To ask you to come to our club room to play. 
 
 And when we have goiu' to our native land 
 
 We ho])e that oiu' day will staiul .apart fiom the 
 
 Other d.nvs in \i)ur life. 
 
14-2 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 LO, THE POOR WARD.MAN 
 
 Oh, orderly- ORDERLY! 
 
 This may serve to introduce "Buddy." as the wardmaster is usually 
 called. 
 
 T CAMP LEWIS he and his mates were assembled soon 
 after mobilization, to undergo intensive training, and 
 from this number a large ])er cent were sent into dif- 
 ferent wards to familiarize themselves with ward man- 
 agement and gener.illy to "observe" all things necessary 
 in the successful operation of a ward. 
 
 It was here that they soon learned that the call for "IJuddy," 
 "Orderly," or "Wardmaster" meant the iuunediatj need of their serv- 
 ices. It was here they learned the whys and wherefores of modern 
 hospital equi])mcnt. aiul the reason why some patients receive more 
 careful attention than others. They were drilled in the necessity of 
 absolute cleanliness about the ward, and grounds, the best methods of 
 serving foods and the necessity for ))ersonal cleanliness. They were 
 taught, and reluctantly learned, how to jiolish ordinary Hoors to the 
 envy of all mirrors. 
 
 There were four so-called orderlies on a ward in those balmy days, 
 and all four were more or less busily engaged carrying out the daily 
 routine and orders, even though the total lunnber of patients rarely 
 e.'vceeded twenty or thirty. 
 
 Then, too. between s])ells future iiuddies did their share of scjuads 
 cast and s(|uads west and worked up a little enthusiasm each morning 
 during the |)eriod of setting-up exercises. In his spare time Buddy 
 dreamed of what valiant service he was to render "Over There," and 
 just how he in ])articular was to excel. But of course, everything would 
 be as modern and ))leasant as in the hosj)itals back home. 
 
 .So orderly man crossed the sea and shortly afterward fouiul himself 
 in the midst of that now-famous struggle — The Battle of Bazwillie. 
 
 After a few weeks of hard work uiulertaken largely with medieval 
 French tools, the roads which Base 46 were to use were in fair shape, 
 all having complete drainage ditches and culverts. The so-called wards, 
 of which there were 2*2, were all scrubbed from floor to ceiling, and 
 here and there the roof patched and the Hoors balanced, and such 
 equipment as was "necessary" installed. 
 
 The wards in which Buddie was to work were in sharp contrast with 
 those Ijack home. Buddie was rushed into a building, some 100 feet 
 
With Bask II(isimt\i. 1* Outv-Six 143 
 
 long and about .SO fttt wide, acconnnodatinir ,)() In-ds. He found no 
 hot water or modern plumbing; no floors that could be ))olished or even 
 made to look clean; no adecjuate sewage system. Oh. no. it" he had a 
 sink and cold water, a latrine that was well supplied with pails, a ward 
 that did not admit either wind or water too profusely, and possessed a 
 floor that had one section level, he was a lucky guy. 
 
 But instead of there being four orderlies to a ward. Buddie was 
 alone with wliat eonwih scent help lie was fortunate enough to have. 
 
 Just as he finished with these and the swee))ing of those many-way 
 slanting floors, the scrubbing of the hallway and latrine, while the 
 nurses had made the beds, along would come the ward surgeon for his 
 usual morning round. 
 
 The whole ward en \v would immediately start to assemble the 
 artillery and get all instruments sterilized. During the dressing it 
 was Buddy's duty to carry the bucket that received all the soiled 
 bandages, etc., sometimes to cut them loose. He held arms and legs in 
 a gi\-en position, and lifted the patient into ])osition for the surgeon 
 to work. Occasionally he was given a chance to do a little real work 
 himsely. 
 
 Hardly was Buddy well ac-(iuainted with his patients when along 
 would come an order to send a lot of them to another hospital. He was 
 given the necessary supply of litters and blankets, and with a man to 
 help, he would load them, tag and carry them to the doorwav. Hardlv 
 would they be gone when nurse and orderly were busilv engaged re- 
 making beds and cleaning up again. Perhai)s by night they were once 
 again caring for a full house — feeding, bathing, decootieizeing and 
 making comfortable a bunch of fellows just out of the trenches or a 
 hospital behind the lines. 
 
 However, adhering to the old rule of persix craiice and patting his 
 aml)itiou on the back. Buddy determined to make the best of the sit- 
 uation, then oiu' wet day in late .July along came our first convoy from 
 Chateau-Thierry, and the real service began. 
 
 With the fifty beds full and wounded men all needing special 
 •ittention. Buddy's energy was taxed to eajjacitv 
 
 I'roiii then on Buddy's dreams of distinguished service faded and 
 his one idea was to get through the daily routine without failure to 
 jierform any of his manifold duties: Commencing at ():,'!() A. M. he 
 began that hasty pace u}) and down that full 100 feet, manning to the 
 best of his ability the ward fleet, and answering all short calls. 
 
li* On Active Service 
 
 Then tile imals that had to ht- hauk-d over from the kiteliens. but 
 instead of wheel tables. Buddy used a jiiood old butler tray, some 
 pails and a strong back. And it was up to him to see that they were 
 served as per schedule. Hardly would he finish serving them all before 
 someone would begin to cry for seconds, a crv which soon became 
 general. "Firsts and Seconds" all out, Buddy gazes at his watch and 
 finds that his mess hour is well nigli ])assed, so he scoots u]) to the mess 
 hurridly gulps that down and dashes back to the ward to gather u]) the 
 dishes. 
 
 After the meal, our hero slackens the pace a little and does just 
 "good old favors" for the boys in his ward, su,' h as chasing to the 
 "Y" to buy eaudy. cigarettes and tobacco. He sliaves them, adjusts 
 their bandages, or refills their hot water bottles. 
 
 To make Buddy's life one of ease and comfort, he is placed between 
 the mess d.'jiartment and the patients. The former is always trying 
 to cut down on the amount of food served to avoid waste, while the 
 latter are constantly shouting for seconds and thirds. It is a noticeable 
 fact that a wounded man seldom has a wounded ap])etite. Then too, 
 tlu ward surgeon must crab a little now and I hen to let Buddv know 
 that he is the all-highest. 
 
 Cooties ! Yea, bo, we Buddies have met them under almost any kind 
 of circumstance. Once discovered, patient and young friend must 
 undergo a general sterilization. This is just one of the usual routine 
 jobs. 
 
 Then after the supper hour Buddy and the nurse see that all is set 
 :''or the night crew. They make everything look orderly about the ward, 
 straighten u]) the beds, rub backs, and tuck their charges awav for 
 the night. 
 
 When all is said and done. Buddy may have served in the S. O. S. but 
 ne one can say tl;at his service has not been as active and arduous as 
 tliat of anv nan in the trenches. 
 
^^'I■|■ll Hash HosiMTAr. I'oinv-Six 
 
 ll") 
 
 THK TEXT ( ITY 
 
 M v.roii O'lis B. Wkmit. ill C'h.irii! 
 
 IM'.USOWKI, 
 
 Sfit. I-'irst (MjI'.s Artliiir 1''.. House I'vt. l'"irsl Class I.i.yd Wood 
 
 Sfit. I'irst flass MitIc (1. Cainphcll I'vt. l-"irst Class X'iclor M . W. Orr 
 
 I>vt. iMi-st Class Harry K. Mackley Pvt. First Class Henry 15. Hiil)ers 
 
 I'vt. I'ir.st Cla.ss Earl L. Deviiu- Pvt. First Class (lei.r-e W. Mclntyre 
 
 IM. Heiuy W. Hastiii;>s 
 
 X M()\'IX(i across thv v'wcr we t'oiiii(l twenty tents as 
 an added portion of tlie hosjMtal. Supposedly of Knglisli 
 oriii'in. tlie\- were built in sections, e.acli accounnodatiuii- 
 fourteen beds. 'J'hi'v could be used aloiu' or spliced to- 
 o-etlier. Lined with y(dlow and witii rubber Hoorinji' tlicy 
 made a very satisfactory acconunodation for ]>aticnts. The tents were 
 used as an overflow to the liospital to house ]iati."nts nearly recovered, 
 who would shorth- lie ready to return to duty or be sent to the conva- 
 lescent camp. The;- were even used for walkiu'^' surtiical cases who 
 need only minor dressings. K.ach tent had a tent master whose I unctions 
 niaiidv were to see that the tent was ))roi)erly policed and to hold roll 
 call, though in times of stress he took more the duties of a mirse. in 
 bringing meals .aiul caring for j)atients. 
 
 The organization of the Tent ("ity consisted of the tent masters, one 
 sergeant in general charge of the tents and th.eir management and 
 furnishing of the various details to the de])artments of the hos))ital. 
 and another sergeant who ke])t the records and histories of the patients. 
 The writer would ne\'er ha\c been al)le to carry on the work in 
 I he tents if it had not been for the faithfulness of this orgain'/ation. 
 and the assistance of .Major Koch during the strenuous days following 
 the Ar<ronne dri\'e. 
 
 The tents were run as a separate departnunt of the hospital with 
 a single section centrally placed, as headcjuarters. On entering, each 
 patient's name. rank, organization and diagnosis were entered upon a 
 separate card tog\'ther with a probable date of dismissal to duty or to 
 convalescent cam]) and Hied in ,an index for each tent. 'I'he V. M. C'.s 
 were also kcjit se])arately according to tents so that dail\- duty records 
 or convalescent camp lists could be regularly made out. or if sudden 
 orders for evacuation came, it was relatively easv to pick the proper 
 ca.ses ; the tent masters could take their charu-es to the clothino- 
 
146 
 
 On Active Servu e 
 
 dt-partnu'iit for compktion ot" tlitir outfitting and to thf receiving ward 
 for a final check before discharge. 
 
 (Originally the twenty tents held 1 ()()() beds, but in September the 
 2;rouping was rearranged so the final capacity was about 700. The 
 number of patients fluctuated greatly — in late August a bare half dozen 
 wa« the total muster — in lurid C)ctt)ber all of the sixteen tents were 
 
 <>pen and we struck a maximum of (JOO patients. 
 
 Then busy days lasted about a month, starting about the time of 
 t)ip Argonne drive. During this period we received one convoy of 1,59 
 jiatients direct from the receiving ward — two of smaller size — and 
 these made plenty of excitement and necessitated rapid opening of 
 unused tents and doubling up of the work of the tent masters. For a 
 !iionth we hustled and just about finished recei\ing one convoy or 
 
 Abjve— TENT STAFF. Below— TK.NTS, N'ALl.EV IN B ACKfiROlND 
 
With Bask Hospital Fohty-Six 117 
 
 so'.idin"- out a huiicli of patients. \s liiii soim' other excitement would 
 develoiJ. But it was part of tlie o-ame and none of us suffered from 
 these sudden .spurts of work. We were fortunate in being able 
 to pick out occasional serious eases coming direct to us by convoy 
 or rarelv develoj)ing- among the patients, so that we were able to close 
 u)) in mid-Xo\'ember without casualty or ha\iiig any epidemic develo]). 
 
 Vnother function of the tent organization was to keep our patients 
 partially employed, feeling that some light labor was a beiuHt to 
 t!ie man. besides helping the various departments of the hospital. 
 Reciuests were varied and all kinds of vacancies were tilled, such as a 
 gang to keep the Lister Bags filled and cleaned. K. I's.. workers in the 
 wards and messes, car])enters. etc. In fact for a time we held some 
 sixty men who were steadily eni))loyed in various linrs of work asso- 
 ciated with the ]ios))ital. 
 
 One of the most important tents was Isolation under direct charge 
 of Major Koch and handled entirely by him. though carried on the 
 !ios]ntal roll as part of the tint city. Many interesting cases were seen 
 there, and the four sections of this tent served as a mighty useful 
 con.tagous ward, the scri'ening apart by the tent Haps forming etfeetive 
 l>;;i'riers to cross infei-tiou. 
 
 MAJOR OTIS B. WIGHT 
 
 ROBINSON CRL'SOK AND HIS ISLAND 
 'ISOLATION" 
 
 0\'KR the bounding seas of routine, ever I lown by breezy rumors 
 of war news, occasionally there drifts a word from the lonesome 
 •stand where lives the Robinson Crusoe of Forty Six. Almost a world 
 l)y itself in this little place so seldom heard of; a beautiful spot with 
 .1 most charming array of scenery; muddy graveyards, noisy (juarry, 
 solemn remnants of a once noble forest. In all the glory of a majestic 
 noble on a south se.i island reigns the tent master surrounded by his 
 faithful clan of patient I'ridays. Days for him are monotonous and 
 dreary. His j)alaee is simply an unromantic tent ! His throne room is 
 his bed room, dining room and reading room. His royal bed chamber is 
 simply a bed and his imjxrial re))ast. when he has ham. is the town 
 f.norite. ham and eggs, if he has the eggs also. 
 
 Thrice daily he is visited by members of the outer world who come 
 laden with mysterious foods called slum, stew, rice and even an occas- 
 ional slice of pie or a slab ol" cake. 
 
148 
 
 On x\ctive Skrvk e 
 
 All tlir()u<>;li the day and night conu's the trt-atnuiit of many various 
 contagious ailmt-nts of" the tribe. Diptheria bugs, tonsillitis germs and 
 evils of all kinds of ])estilent diseases retreat into the oblivion from 
 which they came when he gets down to business. 
 
 Law may come and law may go in Mac's life in tlie future but in the 
 course of events we are sure that he will never forget his days as 
 Robinson Crusoe. 
 
 BRIAN DONLEVY 
 
 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT 
 
 I\'E SHOTS from a revolver, fierce beating on a tri- 
 angle, horrible shrieks from a bugle, announced to the 
 fire marshal of Base Hospital No. i6 and his assistant, 
 that the fire drill they had been ordered to witness was 
 ^^ taking place. 'Midst the din of noise, shuffling of feet 
 and sharp eounnands, the Ford fire engine arrived; the hose connec- 
 tions were made, ami an imaginary stream of water was played on an 
 imaginary fire. Thus on August ^21. 1918, the fire chief and his assist- 
 ant were gi\-eii an introduction to their future duties. 
 
 On this dati' our e(iuipment consisted only of 150 two and a half 
 gallon, acid and soda fire extinguishers, and with this insufficient appar- 
 atus we were ex))ected to extinguish and jjrevent the spread of all fires 
 occurring in our hosi)ital of forty-five buildings and twenty-three tents. 
 
 A PRACTICE RUN— KIRK DKP ARTMFAT 
 
^^'I■|•ll Bask IIosimtai. I'oirrv-Six 1 H) 
 
 ();ir ni.iiii wattr supply, a larjic coiicTttc tank on the hill, had ii-om- 
 nearly dry. and our sanitary insptctor was usin<>: it tor an aciuariuni. 
 
 Hv skillful nianfUNt-ring and ri-pcatt-d ncjuisitions. we were ahlc to 
 capture two fifty -gal Ion hose carts, t-ightccn fire ladders, twenty water 
 casks, two hundred and s(venty-H\c tire huckets, eighteen pyrenes. two 
 axes and two ."rowhars. This eciuipnient was scattered throughout the 
 lios))ital in tit.- most advantageous ))laces for combating tire. 'I'his. 
 in addition to tlie I'ord tire engine, gave us an even hreak in case 
 . f fire. 
 
 The fire risks in a hospital of this type were numerous. The hnild- 
 ings were constructed of light, dry lunihir. with roofing of tar pa])er. 
 The m.ajoritv of the huildings stood less tlian "2.") feet apart, and the 
 tents even closer together. Kach building had at least three heating 
 stores. All wards and clinics used oil stoves for heating water and 
 sterilizing instruments. 
 
 The stoves were treacherous affairs, always flaring up unexpect- 
 edly in an endeavor to set tin- ward on fire. Protecting the wood work 
 in near proximity to these stoves fell to the fire department. \'ainl\- 
 we re(inisitioned the (). .M . I'or material. Regularlv his replv would 
 cvime back. "No material available." Not stnm|)ed. we g.athcred all 
 flu tin cans in the neighborhood, h.ammered them fl.at. and covered all 
 wood work adjacent to these stoves. In /uldilion. we furnished all 
 wards and l)uildings whei'.' oil stoves were used, a box of loose sand 
 to be used as a fire extinguisiier in case of necessitv. 
 
 The fire departments policy was tire ])re\(iition; bi-weeklv inspec- 
 tions were uiade of all fire-fighting ap))ar.atus, keeping all equipment 
 in place and working order. A fire patrol was instituted and the 
 grounds were patrolled daily, keeping ,i vigilant look out for hazardous 
 fire conditions — rubbish piles, defec-tivc flues, unprotected smoke stacks, 
 etc. Thus far our policy has been successful, .in.l we can point to our 
 fii-elcss record with justifiable pride. 
 
 AIA'IN C. SIIAGREX.to Assistant I'ir.' .Marshal 
 
 THK (;UAR1)S 
 
 F,n;i[T NuiHTS IN .\ HOOSGOW 
 
 1^1/ A Prisonkr 
 
 FIRST NIGHT: Well, this is "finis' for my first day in this 
 cliiik. Got l)y pretty well, too. These guards, though, are hard 
 boiled. They're fixed up nice, though, got a l)uilding to themselves, 
 
150 On Active Service 
 
 <j;ood sleeping (juarttTs. and nothing- to bother 'cm. Wonder who tliis 
 ragtime sergeant of the guard is; always singing, guess he even sings 
 in his sleep. 
 
 Second Night: Had two diti'ertiit guards today. First bird used to 
 i)ull teetli in Portland. Found out tliat the sergeant used to pb'iy 
 fi,>otball. He's been sergeant of the guards since the outfit moved 
 into Bazoilles in July. Guess tliat's why he's singin' all the time. 
 
 Third Night: These pictures on the walls are getting interesting, 
 now I get their history. Here's one of the first guard. That's how 
 they're labeled, anyway, "Base Hospital Forty-Six Guard: Guards 8, 
 Officers 2." I>ooks as if they could ]ilay a baseball game all right. 
 
 Fourth Night: Fl'ad gold fish for sup})er tonight. I don't mind bein' 
 .a prisoner for life, but lay off" the dog salmon. 
 
 Fifth Night: Corned bill today. I wonder if I can bust that 
 window and find a feed somewhere.^ 
 
 Sixth Night: Guess I'll stay with it. Guard allowed me a can of 
 jieaches. 
 
 Seventh Night: Another new guard on today. Used to be mess 
 sergeant, but the strain was too mucli. They got two guards on Num- 
 ber 1 post, here at the gate, another two at the Cootie Kitchen, and 
 four on the Jerry prisoners. Well. I don't envy 'em. They got 
 beaucoup inclies of water to stand in. but of course, if they don't like 
 to stand in it they can keep walking in it. 
 
 Eighth Night: A\'ell, this is my last night. I get a trial tomorrow. 
 Hate to leave, too. Best hoosgow I was ever in. Best bunch of guards, 
 too. Guess I'll have to come up this wa}' next time I go A. W. O. L. 
 
 ^^'hen the sun is shinin' down. 
 
 There's the guard ! 
 When the skies begin to frown. 
 
 There's the guard ! 
 When the rain is coming cold, 
 He's a doin' as he's told, 
 Walkin' on his post so bold — 
 Poor old ouard ! 
 
\\ rri[ \i \s\: Hosi'iTAi, 1()i;tv-Si.\ 
 
 lyl 
 
 xrusKS' cT.rH 
 
 N OXl'' of tlic Britisli tropical tciil^ oiir "('luh" Ix-gan 
 its hrilt' life; briff, but a scparatr mi'inory i'or each 
 liiiiiutf. for tliino's liapj^riicd in those days. Tlic tint 
 was roomy, one liimdrcd and twenty feet lony. twiiity- 
 li\c t'eet wide, and nearl}' five feet lii^!;li at tlie sidis. The 
 cerise lininy- and yellow interlining gave a wonderfully soft and 
 restful light. Hlaek oilcloth ei)\ cred the floor. Tli.- Ked Cross gave 
 us some wicker chairs, the Medical Supply lent us a mess table and 
 sex'era] army cots. Of the army cots we made divans, using I'reiicli 
 niattrt'sses for the backs and co\'ering tliem with strips of the glowing 
 lining that had been taken out for doors. An army blanket served 
 as table cover, and the walls were hung with j-rench ])riiits and 
 posters, ivy, and the Hag on one side. Tlu'se with wild flowers served 
 as our decorations. 
 
 In this setting we spent our time, looking o\'er rc<j;<>iii(iii.s, Jounutis 
 and Tclciirani.s, and reading our letters from honv. Here we discussed 
 the probable end of the war. the downfall of kings, the Owl drug 
 store robbery and the latest rumor. Mere ewry afternoon we gathered 
 for tea, drinking it out of a very |)retty tea set that we had jnirchased 
 in Paris with money from the "fund." With the tea was served thin 
 bread and butter. Sometimes the butter was "oleo," sometimes svru)), 
 and often the bread w.is limited, but there was alwavs tea and chattel. 
 During the latter part of the Cliateau-Thierry drive the time spent 
 in the room was short and the chatter confined to a hurried question 
 
 NURSES CLUB 
 
152 ^^^ Active Skhvice 
 
 about a |)atifnt. this case or tliat was discussi-d — souictinu's a hush for 
 "Taps"— well ! 
 
 One of our doorways faced a pauorania of wood-crowned hills, a 
 river and three of the most noted roads in l^'rance. One road was tree- 
 bordered, a silver line wliere trucks and motors passed up and down 
 endlesslv. The second was the railroad on which our boys went to 
 the battlefields, sing-ing-, waving-, and cheering; and on which they 
 returned to us. silent, broken, but undaunted. There was a special 
 train known as "old :>()," and when it was missing from the tracks 
 we knew the errand on which it had gone and unconsciously watched 
 for its return. It used to come around the liill so slowly that one could 
 scarcelv see it move or l)e sure it halted until the three short whistles 
 that meant "a convoy is in" called us to our posts in the wards. 
 
 The third road ran just a few yards from our tent door, with the 
 river beyond — the last road of all. for the boys we left in France. 
 It was a short road, ending in a plot at the foot of the hill where the 
 sun's last light touclied tlu' white crosses "row on row." 
 
 ^^'h(■n the sunnner waned we planned for a more substantial struc- 
 ture. The onlv building available was a ward occupied by woiuided 
 German ])risoners. WJicn they were evacuated we had more leisure 
 and willing hands transformed the unpretentious barrack into the 
 pretty, comfortable "club." Oerman ])risoners under Tieutenant Wells' 
 direction built a huge fireplace of eonnnon rock and cement, the only 
 fire))lace in anv club we knew — how tiie fame of that fireplace went 
 abroad in the A. E. F. ! Sergeant Phillips made tea room, kitchenette 
 and dressing rooms out of the offices, ])ut seats in every corner, shelves 
 and window boxes according to .Miss Phel])s' blue prints, and last of 
 all made specially shaped boxes for tiny fir trees. Flectricians wired, 
 skilful fingers put the piile yellow paper on the walls, while others 
 cleaned the windows and filled the boxes with iv\ and moss. 
 
 In the midst of it all someone said: "There's a car going to Chau- 
 mont at noon with a ]>atient — a French officer. Could you be ready to 
 start for Paris then, for draperies for the club?" The forced calm- 
 ness with which we answered, "Yes, we'll be ready." How the gray 
 November day brightened ! The drive through the Torraine country, 
 peasants at work in the fields, an ox and a horse harnessed together. 
 
 November 10 at Versailles we passed the hotel where the confer- 
 ence was then going on. Armed guards were without. 
 
\\lTlI J5.\SK HOSI'ITAL I'uUTV-SiX 153 
 
 \()\(inl)<r II in Paris I NoNcinhvr 1 '2 in Paris! Tlicn ransacking 
 Paris shops on tlic tliirtrtntli and t'ourtccntli for Jnst the rii>ht sliadcs 
 to blend with the yellow ])a|)er — (ialleries Lafayette. The IJon Marehe. 
 names to eonjuic with. At last we found a lo\tl\ shade of hluc t"or tin- 
 windows in the larji'e room. l)luf and yellow entonne for cushions, a 
 yellow rose on a white 1> ickiironnd tor the tea room, and jxjsters from 
 Hrentano's on the Rue del Opera for the walls. 
 
 Then came the trip home, our baggage lost Ix tweeii Paris and liar le 
 Due. our journey to Nancy to recover it. We ne\ ir could explain tlie 
 trip to Nancy because excryliody was doin*;' it just then. Closed during 
 the war. many sightseers rushed th.re iuunediately afterw;irds. 
 
 .Monday our pai-kages arrived intact and \\Cdnesda\- night every- 
 thing was in place for the ()])ening dance — even -.hades for the I'iectric 
 lights fashioned at the last moment by the busy Red Cross Scarcber. 
 \\'e were so ])roud that night I And often afterward we were proud. 
 •■IS on the night of the Thanksgiving party, the night tbc "bovs" gave 
 an tiitertainment — such a splendid one it was. And our "Little 
 Nicholas'" party — shall we e\ tr forget how those hundred I'reiich tots 
 filled their pockets with j;nn sandwicbes, or hung around the tree 
 entranced, and finally went home singing 'A'ive L'Ameri({ue !" 
 
 Afternoon tea went on daily. Then came the Christmas ])rcpara- 
 tions. \\\- found some real decorators among the convalescents and we 
 made our wreaths beside the fire and in the te.-i room, our candv for 
 the boys in the little kitchenette. 'I'he Christmas part\- -tbc New 
 Year's dance, when we luard for the first time th.at we were going 
 borne — the impromi)tu parties and little dinners beside the fire; the 
 ghost stories, the day we ex))ected Mary Roberts Rinehart. tbc dav 
 Miss Stimson and Miss Isom came — but the climax of memories 
 comes when, the uuisie over, the d.ancers gone, rnv turns for a last 
 look down the long room through the ivy garlands to the glowing 
 fire. 
 
 ELEANOR DONALDSON 
 
I ,", I () \ A ( i- 1 V I'. S I : H \ I ( 1 •: 
 
 IMII", MUSl'.S' IM'IHMAHV 
 
 A 'I' I'MHST. wlicn .iiiv i>l' llir inirsis hcc'inii' sick, tlicy wcrr cnrcd 
 J. 5l I'or in llicir (lumicrs, wliii'li \v,-is I'.ir from sal isl .•ictory. hci'.-iiisi 
 ('\('ii luirscs. \ou know, wani lo I'dl they .in- in tlic proper place when 
 lonsillitis. measles or an\ oilier inrei'tion a|)pears. 
 
 I'nclc Samuel, when Iw Ix^an lo liuild up liis war machine, did not 
 |)ro\ ide nuich for ihc care and trealmeni ol' his nurses. lie lilted iheni 
 oul in i>re.it st\le. oro-.mi/i d them well. Iiul a|)parently I'oro-ol that 
 llie\-. as well as the men ha\c llieir illnesses. So after a short tim,-. 
 Ihrouiih the help ol' CoIoimI \'einu\ and the o-cnerosity of the Red 
 Cross. .1 section ol one of the linildin<j,s w.is allotted I'or a nurses 
 inlirni.'irw The sei'tion w.as p,-iuelled oH'. linoleum 1,-iid on the lloor, the 
 w ills p;ipered, idi.iirs. rui;s. elc. until the pl.icc .ictually had a home- 
 like .iiiijear.ince. .iiid I rom th.al time on the nurses inlirm.iry was n 
 "i're.'il .addition to the m.iin dcp.irtmeiit s of H.asc Hospital Ki. 
 
 ir ore douhted th.il the nurses who were p.itieiils there did not (iijov 
 lllcnisi l\ (s. .ill tli.it had to he done to jirovc tli.il the\' were \ cry con- 
 tented w.-is to st.and ,it the door of the inlirm.irv .iiid listen. 
 
 MK.>^K.S W AUn 
 
With Base Hosimtai. Fohtv-Six 
 
 155 
 
 THE LITERARY SOCIETY 
 
 N tlif ,irri\al of Base H().s])ital Ki at Bazoillts. it was 
 found that the city, so beautiful in arcliitccturf. so 
 rich and frajrrant in its cvcr-chano-inii; nioinuncnts to 
 thi' Cioddess of Aj^riculturc, was lacking in those thinti-s 
 appealing to the higher literary tastes and ideals. To 
 meet this lack, the Eiterary Society was organized. The idea emanated 
 from the brain of Major Benson, who. though a mere Captain at the 
 lime, dis))l;iyed as never before, his re.il talent for organization. His 
 promotion to a majority came largely as a result of these efforts. 
 Inducted into office as its first ])resident, he maintained his leadership 
 for many months. It was with keen regret that we were compelled to 
 accept his resignation in November, when he returned from leave so 
 weakened and enfeebled that he felt inca[)able of presiding further. 
 A resolution passed at the following meeting expressed the heartfelt 
 regret of the Society at being unable to get from him nnich of the 
 accumulated wealth of his ])revious experiences. 
 
 Meetings of the Society were held at irregular inter\als — weekly, 
 semi-weekly, daily or T. I. I). P. C. — .-ind could !);■ called b\- any mem- 
 ber who felt he had something of interest or value to offer. A quorum 
 consisted of three or more members, each one of whom was required to 
 lia\f several memlxrship tickets. These membership tickets were 
 engraved for us at considerable cost by the French government. For 
 those who are anxious to obtain souvenirs of Base Hospital M), dupli- 
 cates of these tickets are still obtainable. Sessions of the Societv 
 closed promptly at 1 1 o'clock, at which hour the lights Avent out. For 
 a time they were ])rol()nged by the use of candles, but it ])rove(l diffi- 
 cult to rend ))a|)(rs or shady drawings by this dim and wavering 
 light, so the |)ractice was discontinued. For a time great inconvenience 
 was caused by the frecjuent occurrence of air raid alarms. The ])ro- 
 (Iromal symi)t()ms. fi\-e winks of the light, weri followed within a 
 few seconds by a l)lackn(ss discouraging even to the most devoted 
 literateur. 
 
 A resolution signed by all of our members was forwarded to the 
 airplane service of the (ierman Army. re(]uestiiig that no airplanes 
 be allowed to cross the lines before 1 1 p. m. ^^■ith customary brutality, 
 the request was refused. Tliereu|)on. a protest was sent to the Com- 
 manding (ieneral of the American Army setting out the degree of our 
 distress. The reply came promptly in the form of an Allied Drive, 
 which forced the enemy so far from our beloved Bazoilles, that air 
 raids no longer occurred. Thus was the Societv saved. 
 
]'>6 Ox Active Service 
 
 Not .-vll of the ()ri<>:inal ineinbcrs of tlir Society remained as active 
 participants. I^icutcnant Palmer was prevailed u})on to resign and 
 accept a ))osition as Kibitzer. This change was welcomed with great 
 enthusiasm by Lieutenant Houldin. who was never more cheerful than 
 when Lieutenant Palmer acted as his special mascot. Lieutenant Blair, 
 to whom tlie Society owes an eternal debt of gratitude for his expert 
 dissertation on "The Position of the Goophle and Gim])er in Modern 
 Day Literature. " was tem])orarily disabled by the practical a))plica- 
 tion of his theories. To replace these losses, an attempt was made to 
 develop two jjromising novices, Lieutenant Mangan and ^NL-vjor Skene. 
 The attempt proved costly, and was a dismal failure. The names of 
 Cliaplain Colton ,'ind Lieutenant West were then considered, but they 
 refused the protfen-d election. 
 
 ^Lajor Wight was with us on several occasions; being of nervous 
 temperament, he was lU'ver able to sit through an entire evening. 
 LTsuallv he came late, but his coming aroused in all tlu' keenest en- 
 t'uisiasm. as lu' was almost certain to contribute something of value. 
 Another of our fairly steady contributors was C'ai)tain Morse. He 
 showed a tendency to force an argument, even when he was not com- 
 petent to dis])ute the facts in liand. He raised many interesting ))oints. 
 but the results were costly, aiul his discouragement was expressed in 
 phrases which we hesitate to quote verbatim. Major Joyce was seldom 
 with us. Owing to his high position in the unit, he was furnished with 
 sjjccial menibersliip certificates by the (luartermaster. He was care- 
 less enough to h)se several of these, which the tinders found great 
 difficulty in using. 
 
 Special mention nuist be made of Major Koch. On sucii oc-casions as 
 he could be relieved from his s])ecial duties at Base Hospital ()(). lu' 
 joined our members. His decisions were always slow and deliberate; 
 his remarks were frequently pat. and there was little bluff about them. 
 His ealnuu'ss under stress was notable; even in a crowd with a full 
 house before him. his liaiul did not shake nor his voice tremble. 
 
 During a few of our earlier sessions, we were held spellbound bv 
 some peculiarly original contributions from our young Southern 
 friend, Lieutenant Daves. But his guardian. Major .lovce, put his 
 foot down solidly and firmly, refusing to allow the child to remain 
 up for any further sessions. 
 
 We cannot close without expressing the gratitude which we know 
 the wdiole organization feels toward one of our most zealous workei's. 
 Lieutenant Steiner. Li a spirit of utter open-heartedness, he extended 
 
With Uase Hospital Fohtv-Six 1.V7 
 
 to the Society tlir iisf of liis (juartcrs as a c-lul) room. He prniiitted the 
 use of his chairs and table, the latter upholstered with one of his 
 most cherished possessions — an autiqiu- — a relic of his former ca\alr\ 
 (lavs (Blanket — (). 1). 1). He furnished light, he furnished heat, 
 and on extra cold davs. he served licjuified Sterno .as an adjuni'l. l'"or 
 all this we herehy express our lirateful tlianks. 
 
 We feel keenly that the Literary Society has l)een one of the most 
 patent factors for good in the entire organization. It has stimulated 
 literary taste, promoted good fellowship, and aided materially in keep- 
 ing up our morale. 
 
 THE PERSOXXEL CLUB 
 
 ■N ALCiL'ST. H)1S. Chaplain Colton developed the idea 
 that the personnel of Base Hos])ital Ki needed room 
 for ])lay. Suitable s])ace was tinalh- obtained b\- parti- 
 tioning otf a portion of the Laboratory Building. Next 
 came th,- problem of furnishings •••.nd decorations. The 
 Red Cross was a])pealed to and agrei'd to furi'ish the club, and oui- 
 nurses sewed and })repared draperies and hangings. The walls were 
 decorated with French ^^'ar Posters and a ])lace of honor was allotted 
 to the Ixautiful silk Hag. ])resented by Elks' Lodge I t'^ of Portland. 
 Ori'gon. 'I'lie club was then coin))lete with writing tables, games of 
 all kinds, magvizines and ;i small library. There were comfortable 
 chairs and a good coal sto\ e around which the boys gatlu-red nightly 
 to toast their shins. 'I'his was always the one really good ])lace to 
 find men for the numerous det.ails. which speaks well for the comfort 
 of" the club roouK .V house committee was formed with Sergeant Hughes 
 as chairman. 
 
 The formal opening of the club was an evening which will live long- 
 in the memory of the boys. The ])rogram was entirely imj)romi)tu and 
 w.as opened by l)rief reniarks by Coloiu-ls Davis and Yenney. The 
 balance of the program was furnished by mtinbers of the ])ersonnel. 
 winding up with a tempting linieh. 
 
 The club room gave sjjlendid service from all viewpoints, as a recre- 
 ation hall, for religious services, orchestra ])ractice, etc. The club 
 aided materi.ally in maintaining the morale of the men in the long, 
 hard da^'S and nights wdien the great drives were on. And every two 
 weeks an imjiromjitu j)rogram was given, though it frequently hap- 
 pened that during these, the air raid alarm \>ould be sounded and 
 
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 lights would go t)ut, making postponement necessary. We all feel that 
 the greatest value of the club was in helping cement the friendships 
 begun in Camp Lewis or on our trij) over — to endure as long as we 
 all shall live. 
 
 SERGEANT EVERETT HUGHES 
 
 THE BIBLE CLASS 
 
 l''ACTOR of considerable importance in the life of our 
 unit has been the Bible Class. On our arrival at Cam)) 
 Lewis it was soon discovered by those interested that a 
 class was being held twice a week at Y. M. C. A. Xo. 1. 
 and many availed themselves of its benefits as time and 
 oi)portunity would ])ermit. 
 
 In the verv nature of things, however, such a class could only be 
 transient. When our hospital was called for overseas service it had no 
 organized effort of its own in this department until it reached Cam]) 
 ^Nlerritt. On the last day of our sto]) at this place it was announced 
 that the Rev. T. R. Davis wished to mei't the boys that night in one 
 of the barracks. He spoke to us of the practical benefits and tlie 
 necessity of systematic and daily study of the Book of Books, and 
 presented each with a copy of the New Testament in return for a 
 pledge to do, as far as possible, some daily reading. Six leaders were 
 appointed to give organized form to this effort. The group thus 
 became a member of the great Pocket Testament League. 
 
 When we finally became settled in our new home in France a Bible 
 Class, open to all, was organized by members of the I>eague. Mean- 
 while, many of the less active members still remained faithful to their 
 pledge. Much credit belongs to Private Hargrove, one of the ap- 
 pointed leaders and chairman of the class, for his untiring efforts. 
 
 During the sunnner months, and as long as the weather permitted, 
 the class used to go out on the hillside back of the camp for its meet- 
 ings. The reservoir was a favorite rendezvous. Beside the personnel, 
 patients were invited to attend. A systematic study of St. Matthew's 
 Gospel was begun. Much value and benefit has been derived from 
 these meetings, and their moral effect, though not appreciated by 
 some, cannot be doubted. Although the unusual rush during the great 
 Allied offensive made such meetings tnicertain and secondary, yet no 
 on? feels tliat his efforts to attend them, and es))ecial]y. to do some 
 dailv readiuii' of his Testament have been in \ain. 
 
 AXEL NELSON 
 
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 159 
 
 BASEBALL AT lORTV SIX 
 
 B 
 
 BASEBALL 
 
 lASEBALL was alxxit the ni\\y iivunr 
 
 for wliicli liic enlisted personnel of 
 
 K) found nnieli time, and altliougli the 
 
 men did not lia\c nuieli time for ))rat'tice. 
 
 ne\ irtlieless tlie\' often yaxc a neat exiiilii- 
 
 tion of the Ji'ame. The handicap of Laek of 
 
 e(|uipnKnt also ha 1 lo lie considered. A 
 
 \)\iX supply of ((luipmt nt was furnished hy 
 
 the Red Cross at (amp Lewis and it was 
 
 ( sen! o\trseas. where it finally arrived Feb- 
 
 Mf - ■ . • ' "H ruar\- \. li)IS). a triHe late for the season 
 
 oC 1})IS. The hoys lost no ti ne in iitttin<>; 
 started after t!iey laiuled on the hanks 
 of tile Meuse. for on July I. I!) IS. two days after arrival, they met 
 and defeated Bas Hospital IKi. ^^'hen the unit mo\ ed across tlie 
 river to its |)eruianent location, a short time was dexoted to ])rattice 
 e\try afternoon wlKiiever it was possible. Se\tral games were i)laved 
 throughout the season and 1() won the great majoritv of them. The 
 only team that bested her at .all was a Miobile Operating unit that had 
 till' good fortune of ha\"ing sctcr/il cx-j)rofessionals in its line-up. .Vs 
 cliami)ion among the scM'ral base hospitals in the valley. Ki stood 
 supreme. 
 
 The team had the ad\antage of a real ])itcher in the person of 
 "Slim" Kackley. This tall, lanky ])itchcr. with his long right arm. 
 shattered the fond ho])es of inanv a slugger, for he had plent\- of 
 curves, a good "fast" one. and f;iir control. He had the ad\antage 
 
 TATIFA'T S MESS HALL 
 
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 On Active Skkvice 
 
 also of liavin<;- a tirst-ratr fatclicr. Haslior. to hold liiin. liashor also 
 had all kinds of fight and a cool head, which kept the machine steadied 
 down at all times and whose strong right arm canglit many a base 
 runner trying to steal second. At first base we had Stinson, of basket- 
 hall fame, but unknown as a baseball player. Not unknown for any 
 length of time. howe\'er. for he soon proved his worth to the fans. He 
 never failed on a ground ball; iu' was a speed demon on tiie paths and 
 his long distance clonts in the jnnches broke n]) many a fond dream 
 for the opposing ])itcher. Compliments are due all the ))layers whose 
 names are mentioned below. We must not forget tiu' Miller Twins, 
 whose daring lasc runnino- and ability to "i)ut o\ir'" tlu' stiueeze ])I;iy 
 won at least one 1 to (I game for i(). 
 
 The boys |)layed e\-erv minute of the time. Their s])irit was good 
 and tii.Te was ro "cral)bing." Many of the enlisted men. the officers 
 and the nurses took nnu-h interest in the team and that accounted, in a 
 great measure, for the snccess. 
 
 The line-nj): l^ashor. catcher; Kackley. pitcher; Osborne, pitcher; 
 Stinson. first base; A. .Miller, second base; Jirown. shortsto]) ; Harlow, 
 third base; Briggs. Morene. G. ^liller and Mitchell, outfielders; Stelsel, 
 manager; Lieutenant I'almcr. director of athletics. 
 
 OUR I'OOTBALL ARTISTS 
 
 'I' WAS indeed a difficult task to usher i'ootball into 
 the daily curriculum of t!i ■ "l'"ighting .Medics" of Base 
 Hosj)ital K). However, to usher the great American 
 ganu' out ))roved to be a unu-h simpler feat. Several 
 weeks after Coach Newman sounded the call for volun- 
 teers, the first contingent put in its appearance on a very a))pro})riate 
 ])lot of ground near the grave yard. Several out of the turnout of 
 the eight men had some previous scant experience on the gridiron. 
 The others were by no means eager to engage in an\- \iolent exercise, 
 but saw in turning out for football they would be relieved from duty 
 for two hours every afternoon. After their first night out. thev were 
 far more eager to remain at their resiieetive duties. 
 
 At any rate we started. After much jjcrsuasion enough men turned 
 out to make nearly two full teams, .lust as the team was rounding 
 into form and it w;vs being noised abcnit that K) was going to have a 
 real team, the boom was lowered by our connnanding officer, for it 
 happened tliat we were running full blast, and convoys were coming 
 
With Bask Hospital Forty-Six H)I 
 
 in with increasing regularity, and he conceived the ide.i that packing 
 stretchers would be wonderful training for football aspirants. Were 
 same true, the team which rejiresented K) should ha\c won the cham- 
 ))ionshi|) of the A. K. 1'". in a walk. 
 
 About two months later the rush weakened and ]>rospects for turn- 
 ins; out once more seemed bright. However, the men craved rest and 
 it was only after it was announced tiiat those who made the football 
 scjuad wouhl he excused from drill that a full sized crew could be 
 gathered. 
 
 ^^^■ inmiedlately scheduled a game and on a Sund.-iy afternoon, just 
 a week later, were ready for the fray. It might be well to ;idd here 
 that several new uien had to learn the signals just before the whistle 
 blew, but ill spite of our lack of ])ractice the team a|)|)eared tit. Our 
 adversaries were a husky buneli of truck dri\ers from the Motor 
 Trans])ort Corps. In its lineuj) were several men who were formerlv 
 Eastern College stars and from all appearances l"ew among them 
 would be ])icked to attend a pink tea partv. 
 
 The weatlur was ideal for murder. Up until a few minutes before 
 the game there was not a cloud in the sky. but fi\c minutes before the 
 whistlt> it began to rain. 
 
 The game itself was a c-ross between ;i ])ri/.e fight and a Congres- 
 sional debate. When there was no slugging evervone on the Held was 
 arguing with either the referee or with the o]i]>osition. 
 
 The first half ended with Base Ki on the long ( nd of a (i to O score, 
 which was the result of .'i forward pass. It took nearly two hours to 
 play the next .SO-miuute half. The referee was the center of attraction 
 as well as attack. It was during this period that one of the M. T. C. 
 speedsters got away for a touchdown. They succeeded in kicking go.al 
 and the score stood 7 to (i with Base Ki not on the long end. and thus 
 the g.ame ended. 
 
 Now for a i\w sidelights and i)ost mortem remarks. .Several of the 
 men had just finished their first game of footl:;ill and manv more 
 insisted that they li.id just conii:)leted their last. Among these, a man 
 who was involuntarily inducted to play in the back field was (luoted 
 as saying: "I liaxc often wondered how it feels to i)!a\- a game of foot- 
 ball and now that I know I'll take mine on the side liiu's heri'af ter." 
 
 To su.n up in a word ahout the football season, we quote from Cap- 
 tain and Coach, ■A\kll, wv only lost one game this whole season." 
 
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 On Active Service 
 
 THE CONVALESCENT ENTERTAINERS 
 
 \ the Hotsam and jetsam that was washed u]) from the 
 liij;- l'"all drive, tliere eauie to Base Hospital No. i^G a 
 iie\er eiidiiii!; stream of siek and wounded doughboys. 
 ^Ve had eome to regard these contiiuial streams of sick 
 and wounded men as simply part of our day's work and 
 as hoys worthy of every kindness we could give them. Tims they 
 came and went, but in this motley crew there were men who were soon 
 to bring us many pleasant hours. Tliere was a big fellow from the 
 infantry with a machine-gun bullet through his arm. whom we found 
 out to be instead of Private McKee, was Mayne W. MeKee. who back 
 in the davs before the war was quite "some pumpkins" at producing 
 good vaudeville acts and shows. He soon saw how badly off we were 
 in the amusement line ami volunteered to fix the matter up. He searched 
 about and found Sergeant Speidel, who in private life was Charles 
 Speidel of Jerome Remick & Co., and the author of many a good song 
 hit. Then he found Private Hall, who in private life was "Sunshine" 
 George A. Hall, one of the famous Keystone comedians and a black- 
 face performer of great reputation. Thus fortified with two able lieu- 
 tenants, he was ready to proceed. I'urther search on the ))art of the 
 trio soon brought to light other j)rofessional talent ; Bert Bowman of 
 the Bandman Oriental Tour Com])any ; Jack Belco of the Honolulu 
 Ciirl Company; Johnny Byam of the Louisiana Lou and Jazz Night- 
 mare Companies; Lowrence Hager of "There She Goes," and then 
 with Val Marconi of the famous ALarconi Brothers, and Jack Wayman, 
 formerly with (nis Edwards School Days, but now with Base Hospital 
 No. 18, and "Our Own" Victor Orr and Charles Bauer they formed 
 the Convalescent Entertainers. 
 
 ■Major Otis B. Wiglit was a])])ealed to and he very generously 
 agreed to hold all of the boys at Base Hospital No. l6. After several 
 weeks' rehearsing, they ])ut on their first show at the Personnel Club, 
 and it was a tremendous hit. The following two evenings the perform- 
 ance was given in the Y. AL C. A. before a packed house and the offi- 
 cial "Board of Censors." 
 
 It was i)assed unanimously and recorded as an enormous success, and 
 it will be a long time before the inimical drollaries of "Sunshine" 
 Georgie Hall and the beautiful compositions of Charles Speidel will 
 be forgotten. The Convalescent Entertainers appeared evervwhere in 
 this area under the .lusjjices of the Y. M. C. A. They made such a hit 
 that the Y. M. C. A. appealed to General Headquarters that thev 
 
With Bask Hosimtal Fohtv-Six 
 
 163 
 
 might lie (Iftaclicd that all tlif boys in I'ranci- might sec their ))cr- 
 formaiicf. 
 
 \\'hilf at IJasc Hospital Ki the liovs t-nti'i'taiiud in the wards and 
 there never was a special feed that they were not on the job to help 
 make it a regnlar meal. On Thanksgiving day the program reiKJered 
 was splendid. They had written special songs that were a))ropos of 
 the occasion and "Snnshine" Georgie and Johnny Hyam |)iit on one of 
 their eelehrated "Specialties," "The Latrine Dance." 
 
 The hoys did not confine their entertaining to Base Hospital K). bnt 
 went all o\ cr the center and there is many a bed-ridden soldier who 
 was hel))ed on his way to recovery by their merrv songs and jokes. 
 
 The ])rogram rendered by the boys was thoroughly entertaining and 
 original, with emphasis on the word "original." as their songs, jokes, 
 etc., were all their own and that tlu'v h;id the ability to put them over, 
 we all know. 
 
 The "Convalescent Entertainers" were a jjroduct of Base Hospital 
 No. 16. and we came to look u])on them as one of us. We surelv felt 
 j)roud as the reports came in telling us thev had the l)est show in the 
 .v. K. I". They were a good and geni/il crowd of bo\s. and there was 
 many a dark and dreary hour they helped to brigliten and man\- a pang 
 of homesickness was chased to the tall timbers by their merrv songs, 
 jokes and stories. 
 
 C()N\- ALESCEXT ENTERTAINERS 
 
164 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 THE ORCHESTRA 
 
 WE ALL know that music liath cliarms with which to soothe the 
 savage breast, and while the boys were still back in Portland 
 around the piano at the Portland Academy, tiiey figured th.at if music 
 liad all tile eliarnis witli whieli it was ereditfd, whv not try it in I'ranee. 
 
 It was then decided that Base K). u])()n its arrival overseas, should 
 have an orchestra. When the freiglit was being ]).ieked at Camp Lewis, 
 the instruments were put in, but somebody not in accord with this 
 ordered all tlie freight of Base K) into salvage on its arrival overseas. 
 Not to be dismayed, we assembled a set of traps from an old drum, 
 dish pan and a couple of shovels, and ])layed at a dance for the offi- 
 cers and inirses. wliich was such an enjoyable affair that the officers 
 immediately fell in with t!ie idea of developing an orchestra. 
 
 I>ieutenant AA'ood stood sponsor, and with some of the members took 
 a trip to Nancy to purchase the instruments. They must have had a 
 difficult time, as it took them a "full" day and a half to select li.alf a 
 dozen instruments. The instruments were ])ai(l for hy the Am.'rican 
 Red Cross upon the a])))eal of our Chaplain. 
 
 Rehearsals were started at once in tl;e men's rccrtation Init. and the 
 din and noise eminating therefrom was frightful. "Twas well the doors 
 were locked or the m.'.nbers of the orchestra would have been short 
 lived. 
 
 ^lusic was very scarce; in fact, tlie only co]:)ics obtainable at first 
 were some popular piano scores wliicli were brought from the States, 
 
 WWMm: 
 
 ORCHESTRA 
 
\\'lTlI HaSK HOSIMTAI. I'OkTV-Six 
 
 165 
 
 hut at'tcr a cainass of the C'ciiti r. tliiy finally ^atlKTcd to^'.thcr some 
 good minibcrs wliicli sfrxrd as flu ir rcjxrtoire. 
 
 (in at ditticulty was experienced rel)< arsiiii)- tlie repertoire of the 
 oreliestra. inasnuieli as the ])i;nio was cariied hack and forth from the 
 Nurses Hut to the Personnel Clul). and from there to the nurses' mess, 
 and officers' (juarters. It was a counnon sight to see the members of the 
 orchestra witli their instruments under their arms, dodginji; hack and 
 forth in that celehrat.'d Hazoilles adhesi\e in si arch of the elusixc 
 piano. The orchestra was kept (luite husy playing for d/inces. hancjuets 
 and par'ies at Base 1(). 'IMieir reputation soon spread and the\- w<re 
 called upon to pla\- for the other hospitals in the Center. 
 
 France does not hold a gr( at many ph asuvt ahle memories to which 
 we can look I ack. hut the orchestra of Hase Ki was really one of them. 
 It will he a long time hefore we forget their sweet strains as thev 
 ])layed for us at the many dances, dinners and special occasions in old 
 Bazoillcs. 
 
 KXPKKIKNCKS WITH A CASUAL COMPANY 
 
 WHEN Base Hospital No. K) left 
 Cam]) r.ewis for ))arts unknown. 
 thei'c were seven of us left there in the 
 hospital. After ser\ ing our se\ tii da\s of 
 (|uarantiiu'. three of us receixcd orders to 
 follow. 
 
 I'i\c days were recpiired to hring us to 
 Cam)) .Mcrritt. N. .1. l'|)on arrival, we 
 ran across Private Andrews, who informed 
 us th.it our iniit had left for overseas the 
 day previous. The four of us with fifty- 
 three men were formed into a Casual Com- 
 pany, which began preparations for de- 
 parture. Two weeks were s])ent in this, 
 during which time we were allow( d a mnnher of passes, giving us 
 opportunities to visit New York. We finally got aboard the train 
 bound for Hoboken. L'pon arrival there we boarded a ferrv boat, 
 which took us down to the dock where our ship, the San ./nriiito, was 
 
]66 On Active Service 
 
 hfrthed. At tin- dock we wore served with cotief and rolls by the Red 
 Cross before boardiiiy the shij). 
 
 Owiiiii' to the t'aet that the convoy with which we were to leave 
 had gone without us. we were rtMjuired to anchor in New York harbor 
 for seven days, awaiting another one. One the niorniuii- of .lulv 1. 
 we steamed out to sea and on the forniiny- of our con\()y. fouiul that 
 we wei'e one among forty-tive ships. One' battle cruiser led the forma- 
 tion. Outside of a little seasickness, everything went well until tlie 
 afternoon of the ninth, when "britz ' slipped one of our ships a cigar 
 which iinmediatv'ly sank her. the survi\()rs being ])ieked up b\- a 
 neighboring ship. Then life on the wave grew exciting. That same 
 niglit. our ship collided with another named the Oo.sterd i/ke, which 
 carried a cargo of a million and a half rounds of TNT high explosive. 
 The prow of our boat struck the other a:nid-ship. missing by about 
 tivt feet the magazine holding this cargo. The alarm was innnediately 
 given, and everyone stood by the life-boats, but no boats were lowered, 
 as an ins])ection by the ca))tain and chief engint cr promised us that 
 the boat could ])Ossibly stay aHoat until morning. With the break of 
 day, everyone was on deck looking for relief, as tlie rest of our convoy 
 had not stopped. Soon we sighted a ship across the horizon, and we 
 signaled for them to stand by us. They signaled back that they were 
 the shij) that we had hit. and could go full-speed ahead, but would 
 stand by us until relief arrived. At once we sent out wireless messages 
 and smoke signals for help, in the meantime, turning around and head- 
 ing for the nearest port. Halifax, at the speed of about four knots an 
 hour. 
 
 That afternoon the Oostcrd ijkc signaled that they were "abandoning 
 shii^." The captain gave orders to stop that we might pick u]) the 
 survivors from the life-boats as they came alongside our ship. This 
 left us alone with an additional crew aboard, for forty-eight hours, 
 when a Norwegian boat came and stood by us until relieved by an 
 American steamer, which took off" the survivors of the sunken ship. 
 After ten days of suspense and anxiety we reached Halifax witlunit 
 further disaster. 
 
 It fell our luck to have to unload the cargo of the San Jacinto, which 
 took us exacth' seven days. C)n finishing this job. we boarded an Eng- 
 lish boat, the Xagoi/(i. and left Halifax duly 'iT- This time, in an Eng- 
 lish convoy of ten ships. C)wing to the recent great disaster there. 
 Halifax was no inviting place for one to stay. So were were only too 
 glad to be on our wav once more. 
 
U ITU B\SK M()>1>ITA[, loiITV-SiX 
 
 ui: 
 
 \\'itli()iit t'lirtlur inisiiai). \vc arrixcd and laiultd in London, hoarded 
 a train for \\'inc'li('.sttr. at whicli place we hiked four and a half miles 
 to one of tho.se famous Knglish rest c-am])s. After si])])in<i- tea for two 
 davs with the Englisli there, we hiked nine and a h.alf miles more to 
 Southamjjton. where we hoarded the Ann riean l)eat Yah which took 
 us across the channel to I.a Havre, i'rance. Three days were s])ent 
 in another English rest camp, then we departed for j)arts of France 
 unknown. 
 
 l)urini>- our first night on the train, we were greeted with one of 
 those famous "Hun Air Raids."" in which they tore u]) the track in 
 .several places behind us. by dropping a few of tlieir Ci. T. Cans. Our 
 journev took us through \'ers;iilles and Orh-ans and finally landed 
 us in an American casual camp at St. Aignan. August 1.). IDIS. There 
 wc met a number of old friends from the States, who gave us nuich 
 valuable "military information." as to tlu' whereabouts of Base Hos- 
 pital Xo. Ki. Four days were spent here in gas drill and the receiving 
 of new equipment, and our casual company was disbanded and sent out 
 to their various organizations. Our orders read to ])roceed to Ba/.oilles- 
 sur-Meuse to join our own unit, which we did on August 'J 1 . 
 
 SERGEANT EIMKH I.. JOHNSON. 
 
 PAPER WORK 
 
 JiASE HOSPITAL has two functions — keeping records 
 and taking care of patients. The former is called "pajier 
 work;" it is much the more important of the two. Army 
 regulations (G. O. .S7()8,) LS B. X. Par. 3 addenda) re- 
 (juire that as much time as possible should be devoted to 
 
 paper work. Any extra time, as far as it causes no inconvenience, mav 
 
 be devoted to tlu- patients. 
 
 Those of us who had h.ui the benefit of traininii' camp experience, or 
 Base Hospital experienc" in the States had already rtXH'ived some 
 training along these lines. But most of us came over utterly ignorant 
 of the rules and regulations For tlu^ benefit of the majority. ('a))tain 
 Dillehunt gave us an inspiring t.alk on the subject. Sj^ace ))revents my 
 going into detail on the contents of the talk, but it may be summarized 
 in a few words, as follows: "Put down on your records everything you 
 can think of. and a few things you can't. Summarize them at length, 
 and include in your sunnnarv anv sjucial peculiarities of the patient, 
 such as favoriti food (to .aid in making uj) di.-t lists), and his favorite 
 nurse. Then write in the diagnosis. 
 
1()8 On Ac'tivk Skhvu e 
 
 Tlu' qufstion of (li;iu,iu)sis is the most ditticult to settle. But a beiiefi- 
 fieiit \\','ir Departnunt has put out a pauiplilet entitled "Sick and 
 Wounded Report" as a guide to beginners. This booklet gives a list 
 of diseases which it is possible to have in the army; no other diseases 
 are allowed. It is used as follows: You decide in a general way what 
 you think may be the matter with the patient. Tiien you run over the 
 list of allowable diseases and find one as nearly like it as possible. 
 This is tlien entered in the record as your diagnosis. It works on the 
 same principal as buying shoes at the connnissary. You have a general 
 idea of the size of your foot. You arc shown a stack of shoes of all 
 shapes, descriptions and sizes (especially ti\ es and thirteens) and select 
 a pair which gives a general impression of suiting. But there is one 
 striking difference. If th.e shoes don't fit you c-an ch;inge them; but if 
 the diagnosis doesn't fit. the patient must keep it anyway. He is al- 
 lowed neither to e.xchangv it. sell it, nor gi\'e it away. As stated before 
 the list is incomplete. "Oogophnia " in ;ill its manifold forms, docs not 
 ajjpear. Therefore, if a patient comes in with "()ogt)phnia," a substi- 
 tute diagnosis is necessary, such as. "Loosi- body in the head — bilateral 
 " — congenital — L. O. D. ' 
 
 The question of "L. O. D. — yes or no" is most important. Upon it 
 depends whether the patient does or doesn't. 'I,. (). I). — Yes " means 
 that in after years, if trouble arises, the patient will be entitled to a 
 pension. On the other hand, in case of "L. O. I). — No. " he will not 
 be entitled to a pension, but must get it indirectly by bringing pressure 
 to bear on his Congressman. All diseases due to misconduct, including 
 drunkenness, are not in line of duty. But difficulties of interpretation 
 arise. Many cases of intoxication have c(nne up in which the ])atien: 
 stated positively that he had not touched a droj) for five years, but lia I 
 merely been sitting at a table with others who were drinking. After 
 due consideration it was decided to classify this group as follows: 
 
 "Alcoholism, acute, bilateral; due to inhalation of ]joisoiu>us gas — 
 L. O. D. Yes." 
 
 It is required that all the data above mentioned be recorded on t'u- 
 field medical card, encased in field medical envelopes. But for a long- 
 period these forms were not available, and records were ke])t on prog- 
 ress sheets, history sheets, subjective symptom sheets, family historv 
 sheets, personal history sheets, laboratory sheets (forms A to Z), 
 miscellaneous sheets, and when all these were gone, on wrapping- 
 paper. A few patients came down to us from the front with field 
 medical cards already made out. This was alwa\s a great help, as it 
 g;i\e us in detail just wiiat had happened to tiie patient, what hospital 
 
^\ iTii Bask Hospital Fuhtv-Six 
 
 I (>;) 
 
 li- liad hfcii ill. .111(1 wliat Irtatimiit lia:l hitii iiivtii. A sptciiiicn of 
 such a record is given below: 
 
 F. H. 
 Kvac. Hos]). ()(iS 
 
 B H 
 
 Datf 
 
 B. II 
 
 Date 
 
 Date. Sfpt. 18 
 
 
 
 F. U. O. 
 
 
 
 Oct. 18 Fahc. 
 
 
 
 X. J. 
 
 
 
 But this is only one of tlu' typis of record ;-c(]iiircd. In addition 
 there is the ward record book, with all the rssciitiai data in brief. 
 Ke(|uisitioii slips, diet slips. re(|iiests for X-Ray and laboratory work, 
 transfer sli])s (to be signed by three majors and countersigned by the 
 Comnianding General A. E. F.. before valid). ])ersonal reports. (|iiali- 
 fieation cards, etc.. ad lib. And ( \try time one of the consultants of the 
 A. E. F. (^^^ a. Dept.), got restless along would come a request for 
 a bimonthlv statistical record of the number of cases of fracture of 
 the auditor\' ossicle, due to concussion of high explosixc shells, or the 
 number of bites ])er "cootie ))er patient per day. And if these reports 
 were not in on time, we might expect in our mail a friendly, welcome, 
 little note from our Adjutant, begirniing "kiiidlv explain 1)\- endorse- 
 ment hereon." 
 
 Without doubt the most imjxirtant of these records was the morning 
 report. This is a daily re))()rt. requiring considerable mathematical 
 skill. The data given is the number of |)atients on hand vesterdav. the 
 luunbcr of patients admitted and the lunnb.cr discharged in the 'i I 
 hours. I'rom these meager facts one must determine: 
 
 ( 1 ) The number of ])atients on hand todav. 
 
 ('■2) The iiiiinher of emptv beds. 
 After several months' training, most ward surgeons are able to fur- 
 nish fairly accurate figures, though this statement will be flatly denied 
 bv the staff of the receiving ward. By s])ecial ariangeinent. the morn- 
 ing report for Base Hospital Ki was made to include certain other 
 data regarding the classification and disposition of jjatients. If artistic- 
 ally presented, these figures looked well on the back of the morning 
 report blank, aiul as far as could be learned, did no further harm. It 
 is reciuired that the morning report he in by 7:00 a. in., and one of the 
 most iin])ressive sights ahout the hos|)ital was to see each ward surgeon. 
 IJromptly at 6:15 a. m.. m/ircli to his ward, to i)repar( his moi-ning 
 rei)ort and have it in on time. It is greatly to the credit of our unit 
 that no ward surgeon was e\tr known to shirk this \ ital dut\-. 
 
170 
 
 On Active Servk e 
 
 DO.MHKMV 
 
 ITUATEl) on the Mcusf, in the j)r()\ iiicf of \^).so;c,s. is 
 a smnl] vilL-tgc of |)t'rlia|).s one Inuulrtd souls, with 
 nothing to distinguish it from innuniciahh' other l"r( lu-h 
 villages of its size sa\'f tlu- history of one of its early 
 inhabitants. This \illage is tailed Donn-eniy. and is the 
 birtli-):)lacc of Joan of Arc. Being in our neighborhood, there was 
 scarcely a member of the staff or personnel who did not pay at least 
 one visit to her shrine. 
 
 It is with a feeling of awe and reveniice that one turns his steps 
 tin-ough the quiet streets. To the average American it would seem that 
 perha])s few changes liad been wrought in the old village since that 
 memorabh' day in February. 1 f^Ji), when tliis sim])le )naid«'n bade it 
 farewell, never to return. 
 
 On asking to see her home, one was directed to an ancient abode of a 
 story and a half, which, upon closer scrutiny was found to be in a 
 fine state of preservation. Unlike most of the houses ty))ieal of the 
 French village, it was not divided by a narrow hall running through the 
 center, but on the ground floor there was one large living room with 
 three smaller ones opening into it, an arrangement similar to that 
 found in many American homes. In this coiniection, the term ground 
 floor had a special significance in that the earth is its only constituent, 
 made hard as rock by the pressure of innumerable feet for almost five 
 centuries. After ])assing through the first room which eont.ains little 
 
 A STATUE AM) THK HIKTHI'LACE OF JOAN OF ARC 
 
With Base Hospital Forty-Six 
 
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 furniture aside from the huge rire-plaee, one enters two snalhr rooms, 
 one of whieh. was claimed to be the bed cliamber of Joan. 'I'he upper 
 floor with its bare oak rafters was probably used as a storeroom. l)ut 
 now remodelled and serves as a small nniseum. where are dis])]ayed 
 banners presented bv \arious Freneli or<>;anizations. liooks and oth>'r 
 records of her life and aehievements and numerous artiehs of interest 
 to till' tourist. 
 
 Nearby stands tlie old village elmreh. where she was a devout at- 
 tendant. This building, which has been largely restored in recent years, 
 differs l)ut little from other \ illage cimrches except for its stained 
 glass wiu(h)ws. whieh l)eautifully ))ortray .foan's short but e\-eiitful 
 career. 
 
 About two kilometers west of Domremy on tin- hillside, whi-re she 
 watched her Hocks, there staiuls a beautiful 15;isilica. This structure, 
 recently erected by the ])eople of France to the memory of their heroine, 
 stands on the spot where it is believed she beheld her first vision and 
 heard her "\oices." On cut, ring the l)uilding. we are struck by the 
 magnificence of its interior. It is of Roman architi cture. The two long 
 sidewalls are covered by six large mural paintings by Rover, depict- 
 ing the leading events of her career. 
 
 No matter what our \ iews relative to the various motives .-iseribed 
 to Joan of Arc, we cannot di'uy her a ))rominent ))laec among the 
 heroines of France, ^^'ith this thought in mind we could not help but 
 feel, on leaving this humble village, that we have been treading on 
 sacred ground. 
 
 L. A. MANGAN 
 
 OUR EXPERIENCE WITH WILD BOAR 
 
 ^^ FRENCHMAN had told us there were boar back in tlu 
 thickets al)out a mile from our hospit.al. Just before the 
 Chateau Thierry dri\e. when l)usiness around th(> hos- 
 pital was dull, we had leisurely strolled out to explore 
 the surroundings and were ])lodding along an old road through a 
 broken thicket when we got the first glimple of these unknown animals. 
 We examined their tracks which looked like deer to us. Tlie old hunt- 
 ing fever began to come back. We knew of some (.15) pistols in 
 camp and we started in that night to sec how nuich inniting material 
 we could accumulate. We gave strict orders to everyone working 
 around the receiving ward to get all the rifle and jiistol shells the 
 
172 On Active Servkk 
 
 patients brought in and save for us. In a week we liad enough ammu- 
 nition to start an offensive on Metz, .'ind for the next three weeks we 
 were out looking for our big game without nnieh suecess. We saw tlieni 
 a couple of times and discovered they really were deer, and we also 
 heard wdiat we thouglit were wild boar in tlie brush a couple of diffe' 
 ent times, but we never eould get a shot with the exce])tion of one time 
 Devine was out alone and got a shot at the deer i)ut missed. I accused 
 him of getting Buck fever, but he refused to admit it. but it did give 
 him the idea that perliaps the pistols weren't sliooting straight, so we 
 tried tliem out on a big beeclmut tree. Right awav I took l:ack wliat I 
 .said and didn't blame him in the least for missing, so we resurrected 
 an army rifle, which somewhat restored the old confidence, and I'm 
 telling you it needed restoring for we had about given u]) hope. 
 
 I think it was about the fifth morning out that we ran across three 
 deer feeding in a little opening. It was barely light, but I succeeded in 
 knocking over a fine s])ike buck and probably would have gotten an- 
 other one had I been familiar with the army rifle, but it stuck, and I 
 had to watch two disappear in the brush. 
 
 We had several fine feeds from this and, of course, felt pretty 
 proud ; then we began to turn our efforts toward getting a boar, ^^'e 
 sim))ly had to get one. We trailed them, stalked them, laid out nights 
 for them for the next two weeks without success, ^^^■ found their 
 wallows, but we couldn't find them — until one Sunday six of us were 
 out and we ran on to a party of Frenchmen hunting with dogs. 
 
 The Frenchmen carry a stool to sit on when they hunt, and this is 
 the way we found them, sitting on their stools waiting for the boar 
 which the dogs had just jumped. The boar fooled the dogs about an 
 hour in the thickets. The Frenchmen were shooting all around us with 
 their shot guns. The hoar finallj' started for the river about .-i mile 
 away. I ran him a close second, getting there just as he was going 
 uj) the bank on the other side. He looked like a cow to me. The first 
 three shots hit him center, and he started to flovmder back toward the 
 water, then I cut his right hind leg off with a dum dum bullet. He 
 certainl_v was hard to kill, and I was mighty thankful I was on the 
 other side of the river, but with the aid of the current we finally got 
 him out and I am sure he must have weighed four hundred j^ounds. It 
 took the six of us two hours to carry him a mile to the hospital. 
 
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 173 
 
 The meat we gave to different dei)artments oi' the liospital before 
 we tasted it. That night we eooked some and right away wanted to 
 earrv it all back to our tent. It certainly was fine. All I can say is that 
 I don't think from now on my hunting expeditions will be entirely 
 
 for deer. PRIVATE FIRST CLASS HARRY KA( KI.KY 
 
 OUR ONLY FIRE 
 HE FIRE DEPARTMENT has distinguished itself, 
 and Base Hospital Mi feels much relieved. It needed to 
 distinguish itself to atone for its past misdeeds, and in 
 the light of events, seeing that it has more or less, 
 ])robably saved us all from a fiery grave, we can forgive 
 its sins. For what has it done since it was organized? It has jjosed for 
 its phot()gra))h in front of the receiving ward. It has rout;'d out the 
 o\er-worked ward surgeon and the bored O. 1). at incomcnient inter- 
 vals, and. most of all. it has turned loose ujjon our buildings the 
 dreaded waters of the Moose. 
 
 On a calm, quiet day, when all nature seemed to .smile, the fire de- 
 partment came needlessly rushing up and deluged us with a stream of 
 water, and such wati'r ! It would put to flight a covey of limburgers. 
 E\ t-n the Bazoilles manure piles shuddered and cowered back into their 
 corners, and for days thereafter the sprayed zone would be shunned 
 for life could not exist within its limits. No ou" has ever discovered 
 where that water came from, how it got there or how long it stayed, 
 but no one doubts that the fire depart.nent and its chief are responsible. 
 But they put out our conflagration and saved our lives. How the 
 fire started is still a mystery. It has been suggested that some one 
 dropped .1 ligh.ted n\atch into one of the gasoline cans. That is impos- 
 sible. If you disagree, try it yourself, (to to the commissary, buv a 
 carton of matches and experiment. You take a box of fiftv and begin. 
 The first one breaks off close to the tip. The second one does the 
 same. You droj) it. The third one loses its head. You dro]) it. The 
 fourth does the same — and so do you. You strikt' the fifth: lo. its head 
 flies off and burns your coat. You don't need to drop it; you can hold 
 on to the stick if you like while you mend your coat. You strike the 
 sixth — and behold, a feeble, siekly flash illuminates the surrounding 
 air — and disa]j])ears. Ciingerly and carefully using all precautions bv 
 shading your hand and holding your breath, you strike the seventh; it 
 sparks — it flames, it nearly burns — but at the eruci.al moment it gives 
 a gasp and dies. And the mystery of what started the fire remains, 
 unsolved. 
 
174 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 THE O. D. 
 
 HIS IS the abbreviated title of a disliked job — for the 
 officer of the day is one of those many necessary evils 
 which thr manual of the Medical Department thrusts 
 upon the Reserve Corps officer. He doesn't quite see the 
 real need for it or that the name is correct, for we have 
 found the (). 1). has more trouble and worry at night. 
 
 The tour begins at 9:00 a. m.. by re])orting ;it the Adjutant's office. 
 Included in the day part of the job is a round of the wards to see that 
 everything is moving smoothly or to hear troubles which he is sup])osed 
 to report and ]ia\e remedied. He admits patients any time during 
 the '21' hours — is supposed to inspect all the meals of tlie personnel — 
 to find out particularly as to waste of food. 
 
 x-Vnother tour of the wards is made after the night nurses are on 
 duty to ])rescribe for ])atients wlio need attention and to figure out 
 whether he will be able to dream peacefully througli the night. And 
 O. Ds. have been known to try any means of bribery ]>ossible to pre- 
 vent being roused. For he is called often to assist in any emergency 
 and to certify as to hour or cause of death. 
 
 Challenging of the guards after 1 I :00 p. m., is part of the night's 
 routine. At first this often brought about amusing complications, 
 owing to the ignorance of both parties as to the other fellows' rights 
 and privileges. I>ater in the fall the round of the guard's posts be- 
 came more hazardous because of ditches and mud holes and the 
 guards could blacken many an officer's character by re])orting verbatim 
 some of the language provoked by these natural hazards. 
 
 The hardest single chore in the (). D.'s life was attending reveille. 
 It wasn't so lad in the sunnner when tlie sun was an e.'irlv riser, too. 
 but getting up at ():()() a. m.. in the dark, especially after a hasty call 
 or two to the wards in the wee sma' hours, was no joke. So here's to 
 the first courageous O. D. who heard the bugle and then rolled over 
 for an extra hour. 
 
 THE CENSOR 
 
 A CENSOR is a scoundrel, one upon whom descend the wrath 
 j^^ of the entire ])o])ulace. From morning until night is heard the 
 cries of the multitudes demanding his deliverance into their hands. 
 
 He lives in seclusion during the day, venturing forth only at nio-ht. 
 
 His life is a free and pleasant one, and knows no care. 
 
With Base IIo.spital Foktv-Six 
 
 His duties arc oC the liiilittst. He is expected to censor daily only 
 the amount oi' mail that may conveniently he carried on a five-ton 
 truck. 
 
 K\erv e\ tniiiii— ai)out 7:'^*' — a truck-load of mail is deli\-ered to 
 each otficr s room for th.e |)ur])ose of beini>- censored. 
 
 The earl\- hour of delivery was inau<;urated to facilitate the s])eedy 
 accomplishment of the work, in order to i)ro\ ide .-.mple lime tor a few 
 games of "Authors" int'ore ret"irini»-. 
 
 Articles submitted to the censor are numerous and varied — every- 
 thino- from ladies' daintv combinations of pink and blue silk to those 
 cute little I'rencli locomoti\es. 
 
 It is verv difficult. especiall\- for the young unmarried officers, to 
 ])ass judgment upon some of these articles, so in many instances they 
 arc referred to the older aiul more experienced married men. 
 
 Censoring is an irksome, but necessary duty and all conceriu'd will 
 h.iil with gladness its abolition. 
 
 In years to come in ci\il life — the temptation to write "Censored 
 by" in the lower left-hand coriur of the envelope will indeed be 
 strong, and many of us will perhaps yield. So if some morning vou 
 fiiul a letter on your desk with the familiar inscri])tion overlook the 
 irregularity — the writer was once upon a time in the A. K. F. 
 
 J. H. JOHNSON. Captain 1). C.. 
 
 Chief Censor B. H. 1() 
 
 HdClli; I'lUSOXERS IX GR.AVEL PIT 
 
17(1 
 
 On AtTivK Service 
 
 HISTORY OF THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING THE 
 
 ARMISTICE 
 
 Arthi'r S. Rosenfeli) 
 
 0\'F.MBEK IL 191 <S, found Base Hospital 1() witli a 
 ca])at'ity of 2Hi)() beds and only .'>,') I jiatients to occupy 
 tluan. The lio.s])ital had been evacuated and its emer- 
 oejicy ca])aeity increased in preparation for an offensive 
 that never occurred. Tlie signin<i- of the armistice fore- 
 stalled plans for a drive east of Metz — one that in its immensity would 
 have surpassed any previously executed in our sector. So we rested on 
 our oars, and .awaited develoiJUieiits. thinkin<i' our work was ])raetically 
 over and there was nothing to do but board a train for a base port 
 and home. Tlie ])eriod of relative inactivity tliil ensued was one of 
 tlu' most tryini»' in our experience. The ])rattical cessation of work 
 gave time for thought and the Higlit of imagination. It can trulv be 
 said that we lived on rumors and sjx'culation during this period, 
 although practically none liad the slightest foundation on fact. Minds 
 formerly occupied with caring for the sick and wounded were now 
 free to turn to thoughts of home. This created ;i susceptible soil for th.: 
 rumor sowers who thrived ;is nt'\ cr before. Hut des))ite the fact that 
 "the entire cent.-r was to be abandoned by the Xew Year" and that 
 " K) was on the list for early return to tlu- United States," ])atients 
 continued to come into Bazoilles by train or truck, and we received 
 our share of them. There was. however, a notable and gratifvi ng 
 difference from pre-armistice convoys in that these men included no 
 freshly wounded or gassed. They were mostly medical cases and old 
 surgical cases that were being passed down the line from field, camp 
 and evacuation hospitals. Meanwhile thos.' of our original staff who 
 had been away on surgical teams and other detached dutv began to 
 c(y.nc back to us. It was not long before oar mess tables looked much 
 as they did in the ))ioneer days at Bazoilles. 
 
 When it became evident that we were not to sjjend Christmas in 
 New York and that one miglit be gone .several days without being left 
 bthind hy the dejiarting unit, attention of officers, nurses and personnel 
 became focus. ■(! on the privilege of taking "leave." There was a wild 
 scraml)le for tlie various open l(a\e areas and the members of Base 
 Hospital M) scattered over the map of France as fast as French trains 
 could carry them. Paris, Nice. .Marseilles, Monte Carlo, Rouen, Xancy. 
 Grenoble and (i.rardmere were the i)laces most favored. Pay checks 
 and bank notes melted as chaff before the wind, but the wanderers 
 
With Hask Hospital Komv-Six 177 
 
 retunifd to the fold with new i(it as of I'rnncf id. as tliat Ba/.oillcs 
 did not typify. 
 
 The month of Xovtnihtr inarkrd thi' bcjj;iniii;iii- of thr disinttiiia- 
 tioii of the unit. Some of the personnel were ordered to Savenay 
 earlv in the month ,ind just l)efore Thanksgivinji-, fourteen of our 
 nurses were detached for teuiporary duty at Heauue. Captain Dillehunt 
 and Lieutenant Paluur siiiiiitied their inteutiou of takin<>- up reeon- 
 struetion work and toward the middle of Deeemher. they were ordered 
 to lio.s})itals near Bordeaux. 
 
 Patients eontinued to pour into the hospital c iiti r. \\'ith the eon- 
 o-estion and hloekiiif; of the base i)orts. evacuation of patients from 
 the advanced zone hospitals became retirded. <)ur census there- 
 fore rose ra])idly until we were caring for 7()(' ji.itients just before 
 Christmas. This stimulated interest and enthusi.-ism on tiu- ))art of 
 the unit members who ))referred to work during their wait for orders. 
 Between Christmas and New Year our three chiefs of service — Majors 
 Benson, Knox and Joyce — left us fen- home; M/ijor Otis ^^'io•ht became 
 chief of the Medical Ser\ ice. and Major ^^'illiam Skene, chief of the 
 Surgical Service. 
 
 As if to make a fitting windup for the year of I <) 1 S and :i real 
 stimulus for a New Year jollification, word was gi\en us on the evening 
 of December .SI, that the unit had been ordered tc prepare for return 
 to the States. Kvacuation Hos))ital ^8 was coming to relieve us and 
 we were to jiut our property in shape to hand o\ tr to tiie incoming 
 organization. This was truly joyful news with which to start the 
 year of 1919. 
 
 Things now began to happen fast in the unit. The liosjiital was 
 completely inventoried and put in condition for our successors. Bar- 
 racks, quarters and mess facilities were prepared in antici])ation of 
 their arrival. On January 1. Evacuation Hospital Xo. '21. which was 
 to relieve Base Hospital t'J. arrived in Bazoillcs and we felt sure 
 that our relief would soon ))ut in its appearance. Tliose of our staff 
 who had signified their willingness to remain in France, as well as 
 those officers wh.o were not of our original unit, were ordered to report 
 for iluty at Pro\isioi)al Hosi)ital Xo. 1. which was to take over the 
 premises and ])atients of Base Hospital X'o. IS. This list included 
 Majors Koch and Hol)ison. Captain Earle and Li. utenants West, Pat- 
 ton and Bouldin. Orders to return home as "casuils" were received on 
 Jami.iry 9 by C.apt.ains .Macomber ,ind Morse ami Lieutenants Blair 
 and Daves. They left us on .January 1 .S for Angers. On January 9 
 those of our nurses wlio had inen on detached ihity at Beaune were 
 returned to us. 
 
1 78 On Active Service 
 
 AH of our casual enlisted pcrsoniul wt-rc drt/iclud from us on Janu- 
 ary 10. and ordered to rejjort for duty at Provisional Hos))ital No. 1. 
 
 On January 18, we received orders to e\aeu ite our hospital com- 
 pletely the next day. At 1{):,S() a. m.. on January IS), we btf>-an remov- 
 ing our 110 patients to the other hos))itals of the center. By 5 :.'3() 
 p. m. Base Hospital No. i(i wa.s empty for the first time since Julv 2S. 
 The ho.sj)ital records were taken to G. H. Q. at Tours on January 22 
 by the Registr.ar and this delixery otficiallv closed the career of the 
 liospital. 
 
 The detachments iuunediately started to take (h)wn and dry our 72 
 tent sections. By performinj)- this tremendous task in three days they 
 won the praise and admiration of all. Medical su])j)Iies were checked, 
 assembled and crated preparatory to hantling ovtir to the center. Pro])- 
 erty release was obtained on P'ebruary 6. On February 1, five of our 
 medical officers were detached and ordered to Evacuation Hosjjital No. 
 21 for duty. The list included Captain Ziegelman and Lieutenants 
 Kelley, Scott, Mars and ^MacKenzie. Captain Selling left the unit on 
 pebruary 19 under orders to report to Savenay for duty and return 
 home witli convoy. Captain Dillehunt rejoined the unit on February 
 20. Many of our nurses who desired to remain in service were ])ut on 
 duty at Base Hospital 18 and Provisional Base Hospital No. 1. Four 
 more of the personnel volunteered for duty with the Headtjuarters of 
 the Third Army and left for Coblentz. 
 
 On February 2.) the unit was taken from a list of six base hos))ita]s, 
 which were being held in reserve, and jilaced on the priority sailing- 
 list. Finally, on March 6, after weeks of tedious waiting, we received 
 our preliminary orders requesting a statement as to the strength of our 
 entire command and as to the earliest date at which we could be ready 
 to leave for a base port and embarkation. A reply was sent to Em- 
 barkation Headquarters that we could leave by March H). On March 
 17, Captain Hynson with three of the personnel left for Nantes to 
 act as billeting officers for the unit. The next day brought us the long 
 expected orders to leave for the coast port, and accordingly, on March 
 \9. the remainder of the officers, nurses and personnel entrained at 
 B.izoilles at 1 1 j). m., for the start home. 
 
 The hardships of this sixty-hour ride on a poor French train were 
 lightened materially by the knowledge that at last we were homeward 
 bound. We arrived at Nantes on the morning of ^larch 22. Here our 
 nurses left us for their billet in Leb.aule — a beautiful resort near the 
 mouth of the Loire River. The rest of the train was sliunted over to 
 Bouguenais, a very picturesque Brittany village eight kilometers out- 
 
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 179 
 
 Top— ClLitiMii Hc;i.l(|ii:irtrT-. H(iu-.i iii.i is. i ppci Uil-IiI I.immii- Iimiii, Mhldlr Kiirlit— 
 Wiiulinill f(ir frr.iin. l.eCt — IiisptH'tidii of Kiniipim-iit. I.owei- Kiirlit — Out- (;C the 
 
 Persoiiiiel Billets 
 
JcSO 
 
 On Active Service 
 
 side of Xnntes, where the officers and personnel were billeted awaiting 
 (M-der8 to l:oard the transport. Wv spent a delightful three weeks in 
 this area, occupying the time with outdoor sports, sightseeing and vis- 
 iting the historical city of Xantes. The headquarters of the hospital 
 and the officers' mess were located in the stately Chateau Beauvoir. 
 During our stay there preliminary inspections were held and "pajier 
 work" was brought u]) to (Late. Under command of Major Skene our 
 juirses sailed from Brest on April 9 and landed in New York for final 
 discharge. Two days after they sailed, the unit was ordered to proceed 
 to St. X'azaire for eml arkation. After wh.at seemed an eJidless amount 
 of inspection, transfer from camp to camp, delousing and another in- 
 iinite amount of j)a])er work we finally reached the momentous day 
 when we were to board the boat. On account of lack of first-class 
 accommodations we were forced to leave behind seven officers who were 
 to follow on the next transport. On Easter Sunday at 1 p. m., we 
 walked the gang ])]ank of the good ship Finland and once again set 
 foot on American soil. By midnight we were out of sight of the coast 
 of France. 
 
 The crossing was une\eutful. Sports, games, concerts and enter- 
 taimnents heli)ed to wiiile away the ten days. There was ver\- little sea- 
 
 Tppci U-ll -Our ti-Min at Nantes. Lower left — A Li/\ (la\ on lli,- l-inlaihl. I pper 
 
 rigiit — Cootie Inspection. .Middle rijrht — Hoxitiyr on I'iidand. Lower rielit — Line up 
 
 for inspection at St. Xazaire 
 
With 15 ask Hosimtai. I'OiiTS-Sn 
 
 ISl 
 
 i 
 
 ■^K8T, 
 
 Left atid iippor ritflit — F.iiiliMikiii- on Kuiland at St. Na/airi'. Middle rifflit- 
 Sweoper. Lower li^'lit — New 'iOik ("it\- 
 
 -Mine 
 
18^ On A(tivk Sekvick 
 
 siokiie.ss because the boat was unusually steady aiul the ocean smooth. 
 On April .*i(). at ."i p. ni., we caujjht our first fi-linipse of the good old 
 U. S. A., arriving in New York harbor that evening. The next morning 
 our transport moved uj) to Hoboken. where we disembarked and 
 boarded the train for Camp Merritt. Here we were subjected to another 
 long wait occa.sioned by a lack of transportation. Captain Bouvy 
 obtained his discharge from this cam]) and ]\Iftjor Dillehunt was de- 
 tached for special work at Walter Reed Hospital. Several of the 
 detachment also were discharged during this period. On May 1") we 
 boarded the train for Cam)) Lewis, where we arrived five days Liter 
 after an uneventful tri]). The four days following saw the final disin- 
 tegration of Base Hospital 1() as the men received their discharges and 
 left for their homes. 
 
 At various times during the summer months officers, nurses and 
 members of the detaclnnent who had been away from the unit for duty, 
 special army work or university courses abroad, returned home, each 
 with interesting accounts of his or her experiences. The members of 
 the unit will always take ])ride in the work done by the organization 
 in the War for Democracy and rejoice in their good fortune at having 
 been able to contribute their "bit." And tiuis ends the story of U. S. 
 Army liase Hospital No. K). 
 
 MY BULLY BEEF 
 
 The meals Lve eaten you. dear beef. 
 
 Are as a nightmare to my mind. 
 I used to s(|uirm and turn pale at the thought. 
 
 But now — I am resigned. 
 
 Youre made up into balls and hash, 
 You're camoufiaged in pies and stew. 
 
 Although a brave and fearless army mirse, 
 Lve wept a tear — or two. 
 
 You've turned my stomach inside out. 
 
 You've made me both to sigh and frown. 
 But after many months I now have learned 
 
 To keep you down — dear beef — to kee}) you down. 
 
With Base Hospital Forty-Six 
 
 18.'5 
 
 WHAT THE WAR-TIM H ROAD SAH) TO ME 
 
 The war-time road was a mighty tiling. 
 V\'itli .ill the "))(■])" of the Yankee swing. 
 They put the whip tliat was needed tliere, 
 As they jjut in tlie whip most everywliere. 
 A part of the Yankee moving sliow. 
 Was tlie Yankee saying. "Com^" on. let's go." 
 As I watched them passing night and dav, 
 Tlie war-time road to me did say, 
 Eet's end it. 
 
 It was sort of a weird. iineaiiii\- thing, 
 Was the war-time road with the Yankee swing. 
 It grijjped my soul and it held me there, 
 Bnt all I could do was stand and stare. 
 The truest pride I liave ever had. 
 Was the one that came for the Yankee lad, 
 As I watched him going on his wav. 
 And the war-time road to me did say, 
 Let's end it 
 
1 8 !• On Active Skhvk e 
 
 The \v;ir-tinu' ro.ul was an tiidk-ss c-liaiii. 
 Of motor trucks of every name. 
 Tile .artillery manned with the Yankee force, 
 We hear it called the "Iron Horse." 
 Most every part of the war machine, 
 Upon the war-time road was seen. 
 I .•ini sorry for you. who did not see, 
 The war-time road as it said to me. 
 Let's end it. 
 
 U|)on the war-time road I stood. 
 
 \A"heii the fi>>;htin<i' was hot in the Arjionne \\'o()d, 
 Upon the road tlie doughboys eame. 
 In a never ceasing, endless chain; 
 They are the men who to you can tell. 
 If there is truth in the saying. "\\'ar is Hell." 
 They all went b\- with spirits ga\-. 
 And the war-time road iiad cause to sa\'. 
 Let's end it. 
 
 The war-time road to uie was sad, 
 I know a Mother, jjerhaps a Dad, 
 Was jiraying. "God keep my Yankee lad; 
 Gi\e iiini strength to see it through; 
 Give him the will to dare and do." 
 The prayer, I think, was an answered call. 
 With a concerted force they ended it all. 
 The war-tiuie road spoke a message true, 
 They ended it. 
 
 — Pearl J'. LumrccrU 
 
 THE ARMY NURSE 
 
 "Man works from Sun to Sun, 
 
 But woman's work is never done." 
 
 The saying, we admit, is trite. 
 
 But the Army Xurse will swear it's riyht. 
 
\\'rrn Hash Hosimtai, F<»htv-Six IS,') 
 
 After Don blows n\cilli-. 
 The Night Supe coincs ah)n<;. 
 And plays a plaintive melody 
 L'])on her silver yoiiii'. 
 
 Tlien sighs and groans and curses 
 Perxade the early dawn. 
 ^^'e get up because we have to. 
 And ])ut our grey crepe on. 
 
 We aren't half ready. e\er 
 When we hear anotiier gong. 
 So we hurry [o the mess hall. 
 To be landed on b\- John. 
 
 For tliougli we should be soldiers, 
 It grieves one much to state. 
 Tiiat nine times out of ten times. 
 To breakfast we are late. 
 
 Oi'ce more back to our (juarters 
 \\'e don caps, cutfs and collars, 
 Then saunter gaily to our ward 
 To earn our se\-enty dollars. 
 
 There's nu'dieine, there are dressings. 
 There are scores of beds to make. 
 There are iu)uris]unents to fuss with. 
 There are tem])er;itures to take. 
 
 Those things, so the book says, 
 I ncle Sam is ])aying for, 
 Hut any nurse will tell vou 
 There are twenty thousand more. 
 
 There are pictures of the folks at home, 
 We feel we uuist admire. 
 There nrv stories of "The Only (lirl." 
 Of which we ne^•er tire. 
 
 There are arguments to settle. 
 
 There are letters we help to write. 
 
 There are che\ rons to be sewn on, 
 
 There are cigarettes to lio-ht. 
 
lcS() On Active Service 
 
 We know we all resemble, 
 Someone he knew back there, 
 And sometimes we must lecture him 
 'Eout living "On the square." 
 
 And when the evening finds us, 
 Saying our "Goodniglit" to tliem. 
 We aren't one-half so weary 
 As we were at 6 a. m. 
 
 ^'^ V^ k^ v<^ 
 
 THOSE FLIES 
 
 It wasn't the bombs that we minded, 
 
 Tlie i)lanes of the Huns and all that, 
 ^^t wasn't the work with the wounded. 
 
 On hard beds in our wet tents we sat 
 Never thinking of hardshijis or trouble.-,. 
 
 But, oh, tlie real pests of our lives 
 Were those pesky old buzzing black creatures. 
 
 Those horrible Hies, flies, flies. 
 
 We met them first thing in the morning 
 
 When they buzzed us awake witli the sun. 
 East thing in the evening they ki.ssed us goodnight. 
 
 When our hard day's work was done. 
 They met us at work in the surgery, 
 
 Or resting outside 'neath the trees, 
 And what they couldn't do to annoy us, 
 
 They left to their comrades, the bees. 
 
 In the darkened old mess tent thrice daily. 
 
 We battled with both in the heat. 
 On our dark granite plates they would smuggle away, 
 
 To greet us when st.arting to eat. 
 In our coff"ee they'd drop, in the syru)) they'd flop. 
 
 We ate them in hash and in pies. 
 Some flavor, no doubt, t)ut I'd as soon be without 
 
 The flavor of hornets and flies. 
 
With Bask Ho.spital I'uutv-Six 
 
 187 
 
 M'ould we clijuu'c to h;i\c sweets with our dinner. 
 
 Some a])))le sauce, peaelies or jell. 
 'Twas a tight with tile hornets to <:,-et a small taste. 
 
 Without tastinij hornets as well. 
 liy steadily waving one h/md in the air. 
 
 \\'e sometimes could sneak in a piece. 
 But we usually lost in the battle at last. 
 
 And left it behind for the hees. 
 
 In our surgery tlies knew no meaning for sterile. 
 
 And wi]ied their feet otf on our tables and gai;/e. 
 They'd walk on the })atient. the nurse or the surg.on, 
 
 Xo respectors of persons or feelings or laws. 
 In the Dakin's Solution many drowned ever\- day. 
 
 And the alcohol cost many lives. 
 But for eacli one dejjarted a dozen more came. 
 
 So we never were lonesome for flies. 
 
 4 9 4 <fr 
 
 THE LAUNDRY OK BA/OILTES 
 
 All Sing Low and .Sling Ton High 
 
 They rail a laundry at Bazoilles. 
 
 Did Sling Ton High and Ah Sing Low. 
 
 Xow in Bazoilles before they came 
 
 The Frogs had charge of the laundry game. 
 
 "Their anti(|nated ways are slow," 
 
 Said Sling Ton High and .\li Sing Low. 
 
 "They dip our soclets long and loose 
 
 In the stagnant slime of the Ri\-er Moose. 
 
 Or drop onr perfumed O. I), blouse 
 
 In the sloppy pools of the laundrv house. 
 
 "Betimes they soak our lingerie 
 
 In the puddled highways of Bazwie. 
 
 \\'here the water drains from the piled m.inure, 
 
 .\nd expect that the washing will come out |)urc.' 
 
188 On Active Skrvre 
 
 So Ah Sing I>ow and Sling Ton Higli 
 Determined that their luck they'd try. 
 Tliey'd try their hand at tlie laundry game 
 With the ho])e of suhliniatiiig same. 
 
 They liired an artist Lu}) Ton Lee, 
 'I'o ))aint them a sign on the Launderie. 
 The sign he painted — the names still show — 
 Read Sling Ton High and Ah Sing Low. 
 
 He painted a hole, 'twas true and S(|uar(': 
 You could drop your laundry jjackages there. 
 And the Chinese words scrawled one by one 
 Tohi in glowing terms how the work was done. 
 
 They washed his sox for a month or more 
 
 To })ay for the sign on the laundry door. 
 
 (Hi' had ju.st one pair in his trousers li-an, 
 
 So he'd go to bed while they washed them clean.) 
 
 Before they bid for the laundry trade. 
 That the Eazoilles Hosj)ital Center made 
 'I'hey tried their skill on their own laundry, 
 Tor they wanted to see what tlu'v should si'C. 
 
 They saved up their washing for one long moon. 
 Lor less than a month would not be soon 
 Lnough for a wholesale working test, 
 At which they determined to do their best. 
 
 From the list api)ended you'll deduce. 
 
 They changed their clothes at the least excuse. 
 
 Their friends remarked that they lookeii (juite sleek 
 
 l"or tliey ])ut clean sox on every week. 
 
 CHIXESL LAUNDRY l(i 
 
 PRICKS MODLST 
 
 LAUNDRY LIST 
 
 1 Shirt, O. D. 
 
 2 Towels and Stocks 
 
 2 LT^nion Suits and lb' Sox. 
 
^^ ITU liASK HoSl'ITM. I'OUTvSlX 
 
 189 
 
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 HRNpV-f>\)NpR\ 
 
 A 
 
 I 
 
 ii. 
 
 iMC. Ton M l'>^1 
 
 prap PxcKWOES HffRC 
 
 'rik'v horrowfd some soaj) (it was thin aiut frail) 
 Tluv borrowed a wash hoard and a ])ail. 
 I'litv were determined to make things Hy 
 Wi're Ah Sinji,' Low and Slinj^ Ton Higli. 
 
 Tile Chinese pair with |)ur])ose Ji'rim. 
 (The nanu's. ot" course, .ire a nom de plume). 
 Started to work at the rise of the sun. 
 IJiit neii'leeted to reckon that dyes will run. 
 
 .\ |)air ot SOX of a iia\ \- shade 
 Specially dvid for the Army trade. 
 (•a\e its color with tancy free 
 To the linffcrinj'- balance of the lini>-erii'. 
 
 A towel wdiich .should li;ive been |)iire white, 
 
 Tike .sprinkled snow on a starrv iiiijht. 
 
 Displayi-d a pallid shade of blue 
 
 ^^'itll brownish spots where the dirt showed throuo-h. 
 
190 
 
 On Activk Servh e 
 
 The shirts (). 1). wtrc mottled :\\ui tanned 
 As if In- a futurist artist planned; 
 A tone that a eoiinoisseur niijvht e()ni])are 
 'I'o a brindled niau\c with a purplish i>lare. 
 
 The things we cannot call by name 
 (Our modesty forbids the same) 
 Were an undetermined Alice blue 
 A\''liieh canioutlaged their uatiw hue. 
 
 The air of the room was a l)iuish shade; 
 Blue was the mess that they had madi'. 
 They swore they never again would tr\- 
 Did Ah Sing Low and Sling Ton High. 
 
 So endeth the tale of the business go 
 Of Sling Ton High and Ah Sing Low. 
 And the laundry game though in high esteem 
 Has faded out of their color scheme. 
 
 And now again with ghoulish glee 
 The I<"rogs get hold of the launderie. 
 Tliey wash it clean and scrub it pure 
 In the Bazoilles extract of manure. 
 
\\'i'iii Bask Hosimtai, I'ohtv-Six 
 
 191 
 
 I/EXVOI 
 
 So it isn't the doses of (juiiiiiic. 
 And it isn't the "C. C. pills," 
 Nor the iodine ))icture.s we've painted 
 That liave cured tlie most of their ills. 
 
 It's the faet thai we h)oiv like their sweetliearts. 
 Or scold them just like tlieir ohl dad^. 
 Or mend their torn shirts just like Mother 
 That has cured many homesick youn<i- lads. 
 
 — M a rj oric M acE ica n 
 
INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Ad j utant's ( )ffic'(' 84 
 
 A Resiiiue of the Quarternuister Department 139 
 
 Arrival in France ii-2 
 
 Assignments of Officers 44 
 
 Baseball at Forty Six 159 
 
 Bazoilles ()() 
 
 Bible Class 158 
 
 Chart of .\ctivities 9.5 
 
 Convalescent Fntertainers Mr2 
 
 Commanding Officers, Base Hospital 46 T 
 
 Daily Life in the Base Hospital Kitchens 1::^4 
 
 Dental Department 117 
 
 J^e])artment of Internal Medicine 109 
 
 Dejiartiire 50 
 
 Domremy 170 
 
 1^'nlisted Persoimel l)y Departments S7 
 
 Fxjierience With a Casual Company 1()5 
 
 Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Department 115 
 
 Financing the Pvirchase of F^quipment i2 
 
 (leneral Activities _■ 44 
 
 Hands Off 9() 
 
 History i^'oli owing tlie y\rmistice 17() 
 
 Im))rimis 5 
 
 In Memoriam 8 
 
 Kiddies of France (Verse) 141 
 
 1 ,anding at Liverpool 51 
 
 i /Envoi 191 
 
 Life on the Meuse ')8 
 
 Literary Society 155 
 
 Lo, the Poor Wardman \IJ 
 
 Mailing Address for Enlisted Personnel -H 
 
 Mess De])artment of Base Hospital 4() IJl 
 
 Meiisings 71 
 
 Mobilization 1() 
 
 My Bully Beef ( Verse) IH2 
 
 Xurses 23 
 
 Nurses' Club 151 
 
 Nurses Lifirmary - 154 
 
 Officers, Base Hospital 46 11 
 
 Official Enrollment of Personnel 4;;? 
 
 Ojierating Team's First Experience 100 
 
 ()]ierating Uooin in an Evacuation Hos])ital. KKi 
 
 Orclicstra Kit 
 
INDEX 
 
 Ort-gon Xiirses CHaddeii Ht-arts of I'n-iicli Kiddit-s .^ no 
 
 Our Experience With Wild Boar |;| 
 
 Our E()()tl)all Artists I,;,, 
 
 Our Only Eire j-.j 
 
 Paper Work Kj"- 
 
 Passage Through England "^~^^^"'''l ;,i 
 
 Personnel CMuh /-- 
 
 Pharniac'\- 
 
 „. ,. . - IK) 
 
 Prelnninary Organization 1^1 
 
 Prei)arations for Dej)arture from Camp Merritt ,i() 
 
 Presentation of Colors ^^ 
 
 Receiving and Evacuating Department 90 
 
 Registrar's Office .' g- 
 
 Robinson Crusoe and His Island "Isolation"..^!^" 147 
 
 Roster of Original Detachment of :200 :>7 
 
 Sanitary Department ^^^ 
 
 Surgical De})artinent jjj. 
 
 Surgical Team Xo. T7 [ 10') 
 
 Surgical Team Xo. 78 j^^, 
 
 Surgical Team Xo. 79 ^^ j,,^ 
 
 The Army Xurse (Verse) ,q. 
 
 The Censor ^* 
 
 The Chapel and the Chaplain's WorkZ....... 137 
 
 The Destination in Erance "^„ 
 
 The Disability Board..." "J^ 
 
 The Electric Power Plant joo 
 
 The Eire Department.. :.i 
 
 The Guards J*^ 
 
 The Hospital Center .........'. 
 
 The Journey Eastward ,„ 
 
 The Journey Through Erance T 
 
 The Laundry of Bazoilles (Verse) iq' 
 
 The Medical Sup])lv Department i,, 
 
 The Mess Dei)artnient J^q 
 
 The Xurscs' Trip Overseas .1 
 
 I'he O. D. •^•' 
 
 The Red Cross J';5 
 
 The Tent Citv 
 
 The Voyage .! '.'''Z'Z'''''. ^Y' 
 
 The Work of Base Hospital Xo 46 r^ 
 
 Those Elies (Vevsf).. ,^1 
 
 Cnit at Work ^^^ 
 
 What the War-Timc RoadSaidI "tirM^'Yve^sO 183 
 
 -\-Ray l.aboratorv ' 
 
 59 
 
 8.3 
 
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