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THE CADUCEUS
FIRST TO REACH US FROM “OVER THERE”
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—Photo By Toohey.
WOUNDED FROM YPRES AND ST. QUENTIN WHO ARRIVED AT THE U. S. ARMY BASE HOSPITAL,
CAMP GREENE, ON TUESDAY
Just as they alighted from the train, The Caduceus staff photographer took a “shot” at the twenty-three
over seas patients who were brought to the base hospital, on Tuesday afternoon.
The names of the men reading from left to right are:—McKenzie, Smith, Michael, Lowe, Sanders, Goley, An-
twlne, Bryant, Denny, Pennel, Hospital Orderly Smithers from Hoboken, Collier, Parker, McPheters, Thompson,
Holton, Koone, Roundtree, Maranville, McDonald, Biddlx, Campbell, Jones, Jackson.
“easy when you got near ’em” they
tell.
Nearly all the men who were
wounded fell during the last three
days of September and the first of
. October, when the big drive in the
sector broke the Teuton line.
WERE TOO FOREIGN
"Can’t say much for the French
girls—they are too foreign and hard
to understand” the lads set out. The
British girls are fine however, the
men acclaim. But the American girls
are the real sort after all, they join
in chorus.
These soldiers were part of the 27th
and 30th divisions and all in the com
pany now at the base hospital were
taken across on cattle boats, it tak
ing nearly twenty days to make the
detouring journey to England.
“We went over like cattle and came
back like kings” they tell. “We were
only nine days coming back and we
lived in state.”
These fellows have’nt much use
for the Tommies of their immediate
sector. '
“They were too upish. The Austral
ians were the bully good chaps and
the hardest fighters in the lots. We
all stuck close to the Australians”
they say.
“The Camp Greene hospital is the
best place we have struck yet” state
the newcomers." “It beats the hos
pitals we were at in France or in
TAPS SOUNDED
WORD OF CHEER
PVT. FIRST CLASS TOWNSEND
ANSWERS LAST CALL
Death has sounded taps for private
first class John H. Townsend, a mem
ber of the enlisted personnel of the'
base hospital, who succumbed to an
attack of pneumonia on Thuisday ev
ening.
Pvt. Townsend was stricken but a
few days ago and was one of the on
lookers at the New Year’s Eve dance
at the hospital. His condition be
came rapidly worse and he died at 8
o’cock Thursday evening.
Pvt. Townsend was born at Ply
mouth, Vt., twenty-nine years ago,
moving in his youth to Ludlow, in the
same state where he followed the
peaceful life of a farmer until called
into the service in Nov., 1917. He
was transferred to Camp Greene in
December of the same year and serv
ed as a cook at the detachment mess
until the final attack of sickness.
England and we know something
about both.”
Lieutenant-Colonel Renn states that
the hospital will be glad to allow
visitors to call upon the men provid
ing the callers come to the hospital
between the hours of 2 and 4 o’clock
in the afternoon.
BIT OF “GOD SPEED” FOR FOR
MER SECRETARY
We, the undersigned, desire to ex
press our sincere appreciation and es
teem for the high moral character, fel
lowship and unselfish ministry of our
brother secretary, Mr. Prank A.
Knight, who now leaves the service to
re-enter business in Memphis, Tenn.
Mr. Knight has won the confidence
and respect of all who have come to
know him, because of his unfailing
courtesy and self-sacrifice in serving
his fellow-men, and it is with regret
that we consent to part with him.
In his relations with the building
staff he has always shown the same
uniform spirit of kindness and con
sideration for the welfare and plea
sure of his brother secretaries, and
we deeply appreciate it.
We wish for him every success in
life, and assure him that he will carry
back home the love of all to whom he
has so graciously ministered during
the time he was building secretary.
Rev. P. H. Rossiter,
Rve. Charles H. Martin,
L. C. Cornwall.
The young men who have frequent
ed the hospital “Y” building contri
buted towards the purchase of a knife
which was presented to Secretary
Knight, "on Thursday.