IN RICHARD
MEMORIAM VARION
UTERARY
RANKS Deal'
Word
has
in a motor
teen truck
received
that
Richard
Varion
Banks
was killed
accident
near Nancy atout tell days ago. Banks joined the service in June 1917 ,and was in T.M.U. 526 of .the Camion Branch. He was released in November 1917 to join the U.S. Air Service. Banks was 24 years of age, was a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic, .and his home was at Ossining, New" York.
LEON
H.
LETTERf3
DONAHUE
I am sony indeed to send for Jour records the .news of the death 01 Ledn H. Donahue of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He cam~ orig.inally to the Field Service in September 1917and afterwards enlisted in the U. S.A. A. S.
Editor,
I was both pained and surprised. to read in arecent issue' o! Jour publication a wild effusion on. a play by vVm. MacFee pailreel wi~ MI. Banett and surpriseel at rOll. I am rather in" clined to agree with the icleas of a certain "J.~W. C. " atout trle not that I e13re to criticise standards you 'ought to llIaintain poetry-in Jour paper, Wh1Ch is supposed to repre?ent an ole1' and honorable institution, the American Ambulance Field Service, and later the AllIerican Field Service. ~
I think YOll ought to discriminate, Mr. Editor. You should never have a11owed .Mr. Ban:ett's letter to appeal' in its prescHt form. How much hetter it would have been to have inserted a little notice infonning a11 whom it may cancern that Ml'. Banett heartily recom111ends Mr. MacFee's lall". play, "Aliens?" Never, even in the elays when we: bought "Boys of " 76 " and -" Wild \Vest" you re111ember those: gooel old elays, don't you, MI'. Edibr-ha ve I ellcountereel such an "ensemble" of ob'scurity of thought, bad grammar, anel poür diction. . ~
1he service has lost a very faithful soldier and the sectiona very loyal colllrade. He is and will continue to be misseCl. In this busy, changing life there is perhaps 110 bettel' tribute thai could be paid. J. G. B. CAMPBELL, S. S. U. 623 (old 66).
WHY
NOT?
The Bulletin depends uran its readers for its contributions. V/herber or not it i5 interestirg and in fact whether or not it shall con~inue to exist pepends upon you and not uran « 21». , Those of you who are 10 have the privilege of torming part of the armies of occupation are destined to ~lave experiences unlike any thaI have gone betore. During the coming weeks. too, you are going to have more leisure than you have bad anfing these last six months of surging.battle. Why not use some of the idle hours in putting into words some of the sc"enes of which you have been witnesses and so add to the present and future interest of these columns. vVhy not?
Can any Olle exp1aiÜ to llIe wh at that first semtence, wh at that first paragraph meal1s? 1 mlmit I elon't know and neither do yen. lnthe second paragraph we are lead breathlessly up' to a c1imax; then the aufhol' rudely drops us info space. I !lever will forgive him für having 1eft me suspended there by my ,fingers I1ntil I grew weary anel fell off c1isconsolately, tofind myself :n the quagmire of the third paragra,ph. I am irresistibly lead to the inference that this is the first modern play MI'. Barrett has read. Who on earth goes around preaching to us that there is only Olle" style" in existence and tihat to be fauna only in the werks. " of our literary fathers?" This is a base lihel on Jl1r modern intelligence. Mr. Banett makes 'the worIel-oId mistake
in tlrinking he is the first to have made a certain eliscovery that there is such a thing' as modern style. Let Mr~ Barret buv - 01' if he can't find Olle 1 wHl send it to him - a copy of l\1r. Arn01d Bennett's " Booksand Persons" an,d he will find that the said aufhol' has also malle Mr. Banett's discovery, as far back as May 27, 1909, as evidenced by his essay on Meredith. As for the fourth and last paragraph - we11! I give up! Will. anyboely tell me if they have ever read aplay that was not written in the "conversation method."
IN RICHARD
MEMORIAM VARION
UTERARY
RANKS Deal'
Word
has
in a motor
teen truck
received
that
Richard
Varion
Banks
was killed
accident
near Nancy atout tell days ago. Banks joined the service in June 1917 ,and was in T.M.U. 526 of .the Camion Branch. He was released in November 1917 to join the U.S. Air Service. Banks was 24 years of age, was a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic, .and his home was at Ossining, New" York.
LEON
H.
LETTERf3
DONAHUE
I am sony indeed to send for Jour records the .news of the death 01 Ledn H. Donahue of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He cam~ orig.inally to the Field Service in September 1917and afterwards enlisted in the U. S.A. A. S.
Editor,
I was both pained and surprised. to read in arecent issue' o! Jour publication a wild effusion on. a play by vVm. MacFee pailreel wi~ MI. Banett and surpriseel at rOll. I am rather in" clined to agree with the icleas of a certain "J.~W. C. " atout trle not that I e13re to criticise standards you 'ought to llIaintain poetry-in Jour paper, Wh1Ch is supposed to repre?ent an ole1' and honorable institution, the American Ambulance Field Service, and later the AllIerican Field Service. ~
I think YOll ought to discriminate, Mr. Editor. You should never have a11owed .Mr. Ban:ett's letter to appeal' in its prescHt form. How much hetter it would have been to have inserted a little notice infonning a11 whom it may cancern that Ml'. Banett heartily recom111ends Mr. MacFee's lall". play, "Aliens?" Never, even in the elays when we: bought "Boys of " 76 " and -" Wild \Vest" you re111ember those: gooel old elays, don't you, MI'. Edibr-ha ve I ellcountereel such an "ensemble" of ob'scurity of thought, bad grammar, anel poür diction. . ~
1he service has lost a very faithful soldier and the sectiona very loyal colllrade. He is and will continue to be misseCl. In this busy, changing life there is perhaps 110 bettel' tribute thai could be paid. J. G. B. CAMPBELL, S. S. U. 623 (old 66).
WHY
NOT?
The Bulletin depends uran its readers for its contributions. V/herber or not it i5 interestirg and in fact whether or not it shall con~inue to exist pepends upon you and not uran « 21». , Those of you who are 10 have the privilege of torming part of the armies of occupation are destined to ~lave experiences unlike any thaI have gone betore. During the coming weeks. too, you are going to have more leisure than you have bad anfing these last six months of surging.battle. Why not use some of the idle hours in putting into words some of the sc"enes of which you have been witnesses and so add to the present and future interest of these columns. vVhy not?
Can any Olle exp1aiÜ to llIe wh at that first semtence, wh at that first paragraph meal1s? 1 mlmit I elon't know and neither do yen. lnthe second paragraph we are lead breathlessly up' to a c1imax; then the aufhol' rudely drops us info space. I !lever will forgive him für having 1eft me suspended there by my ,fingers I1ntil I grew weary anel fell off c1isconsolately, tofind myself :n the quagmire of the third paragra,ph. I am irresistibly lead to the inference that this is the first modern play MI'. Barrett has read. Who on earth goes around preaching to us that there is only Olle" style" in existence and tihat to be fauna only in the werks. " of our literary fathers?" This is a base lihel on Jl1r modern intelligence. Mr. Banett makes 'the worIel-oId mistake
in tlrinking he is the first to have made a certain eliscovery that there is such a thing' as modern style. Let Mr~ Barret buv - 01' if he can't find Olle 1 wHl send it to him - a copy of l\1r. Arn01d Bennett's " Booksand Persons" an,d he will find that the said aufhol' has also malle Mr. Banett's discovery, as far back as May 27, 1909, as evidenced by his essay on Meredith. As for the fourth and last paragraph - we11! I give up! Will. anyboely tell me if they have ever read aplay that was not written in the "conversation method."
Vom time is lÜlliteet, Mr. E;ditor; $0.1 wiii try to be brict. Elementary grarnnlar teaches us c~rtain fundarneu,tals atout a scntcnce, ,md although in certain cases exceptions are a11owablc, I rcfuse to consider the second sentence in the second paragraph one of these cases, Then in the fourth paragraph the author begins" The author - play" and then - Mr. Editor, I cry ont against this torture of OHr paar old English language - he starts his next two sentences with a subjecUess verb. Why not substitute COlllmas für the periods and make the three a11 one sentence, which \'vould be prop;er El1g1ish, änyway, even though a bit complex? As fo; diction, al1 I can say is that I have never seen charac- I t)ers of a play ".opera ted. " Olle operates a :C.oal mine, or a dodor üperates, but onIy in Punch and Judy shows do they
" operate"
characters.
Mr.
Banett
is
a
confinned
disdple
of
progress, I infel', hut I wi11 wager a son against a Bo:che heImet thathe does not find such spelling as "thoroly " and "thru" \ 1n his bclovecl " Aliens." This is a guess, für I have not read the book, hut, however, I am willing to take a chance. Fina11y}' a11 I have gotten .out of Mr. Bane~t's, rather lengthy
I.
~
diapason of praise is thai we should a11 l;ead this marve11ous play, which I hope to do i'1I4the near future, with the kindly help of Brentano's. '
H. K., S. S. U. 6~7 (old 4).
Dear Editor, I Just finished readinga dissertation on the Field Service, enHtled "Trllcking to the Trenches", emanaHng from' John 1. Kautz, former mell1ber of the service, and I suggest thai J. W. C. 01' L. vV. get bl~SY. Here's a chance in this bock für same wonderful knocking. Not on the rhythm, punctuation, diction, proDfreading, 01' farfetched sentiment contained, hut in the facts. K:lutz remarks casua11y in one charter that an arm he hurt cranking a car was atout we11 and he expected, shortly to go back to the tren<;hes. If anyone in the old camion service evcr gut to tbe trerlches, as I remember it, 1t was because he was drinking, not wisely hut too we11, :lud even then I remel11ber no inst~lnH:s of it. Tbe onIy trip to the trenches that was actua11y such, was a little escapade of 1\'110friends of l11il1.e,Harold French and
lohn H. Fletcher, wb.o left tbeir camion alongside a road and hik.ed up tbe line one night. They onIy goi ,as far as the second line of h:enches however and got pinched there. Kautz also, speaks atout men coming in after having stoppeÜ spent rifle balls with tbeir tin derbies. Now I wonder why he made the number so low. Every man in the camion service can show you a nick either in bis heImet 01' in the camion hc drove thai was clone by ene1l1Y shrapnel. Again with regard to cjlsualties. Kautz says that onIy a few IDen of his secH on arc disabled by wounds. He throws the statement aside as har;dly worth mentioning in the next sentence by the casual explanatio~r that they are only flesh wounds and the sufferers from thel11 will soon be back to duty. Now there may have teen a number of l11en with light flesh wounds in Kautz; section hut it ducs not. stand to rcason that there were, everything considered, fram tbc fact that almost everyone in tlre camion service whd ever goi wounded was cited in anny orders and given a decoration. As far as official reports go 011 the ether hand the only two men ,who were ever wounded by enemy fire were Thomp60n and Lal11ont. Hut the crowning opportunity foT L. vV. or J. W. C. lies in Kautz reference to what he was atout to send his ordetly'out to do for hi111. Now, alLof 11S wiu admit that the old Field Service c1ays were thc great days, hut never at their pall11iest zenit1r do I 01" al1.y of theformer members I have teen ahle to eonsult, remember anyone heini assigned a, personal orderly, not even these of us who held the rank ,of brigadier, wh ich Kautz says he held and which he explains was 11igher than the si111i1iar rank in, the infantry 01' artillcry We all like to throw the bull aud each bas a brand of his OWll hut this bu11 of Kautz to an audience of camion drivers amuscs hut does not i111press, and so I wish you would "sie'" J. W. C. anel L. W. on him.
D. D., (Mallet -Reserve). y
EXTRACTS
FROM
PERSONAL
LETTERS
lohn W. Ames ($.S.U. 2) aspirant in Frelleh Arti11ery, wrote frOl11 Aix-Ies-Bains, November 7, 1918: " I was wounded in tbe right forear111 and hand j l1st a 11l0nth aga. I got caught in a little hole near the battery by a volley of 77S alld they eame so thick für a few l11irmtes tlrat I did 11ot clare l110ve and Olle landed right beside me getting me from tbc
Vom time is lÜlliteet, Mr. E;ditor; $0.1 wiii try to be brict. Elementary grarnnlar teaches us c~rtain fundarneu,tals atout a scntcnce, ,md although in certain cases exceptions are a11owablc, I rcfuse to consider the second sentence in the second paragraph one of these cases, Then in the fourth paragraph the author begins" The author - play" and then - Mr. Editor, I cry ont against this torture of OHr paar old English language - he starts his next two sentences with a subjecUess verb. Why not substitute COlllmas für the periods and make the three a11 one sentence, which \'vould be prop;er El1g1ish, änyway, even though a bit complex? As fo; diction, al1 I can say is that I have never seen charac- I t)ers of a play ".opera ted. " Olle operates a :C.oal mine, or a dodor üperates, but onIy in Punch and Judy shows do they
" operate"
characters.
Mr.
Banett
is
a
confinned
disdple
of
progress, I infel', hut I wi11 wager a son against a Bo:che heImet thathe does not find such spelling as "thoroly " and "thru" \ 1n his bclovecl " Aliens." This is a guess, für I have not read the book, hut, however, I am willing to take a chance. Fina11y}' a11 I have gotten .out of Mr. Bane~t's, rather lengthy
I.
~
diapason of praise is thai we should a11 l;ead this marve11ous play, which I hope to do i'1I4the near future, with the kindly help of Brentano's. '
H. K., S. S. U. 6~7 (old 4).
Dear Editor, I Just finished readinga dissertation on the Field Service, enHtled "Trllcking to the Trenches", emanaHng from' John 1. Kautz, former mell1ber of the service, and I suggest thai J. W. C. 01' L. vV. get bl~SY. Here's a chance in this bock für same wonderful knocking. Not on the rhythm, punctuation, diction, proDfreading, 01' farfetched sentiment contained, hut in the facts. K:lutz remarks casua11y in one charter that an arm he hurt cranking a car was atout we11 and he expected, shortly to go back to the tren<;hes. If anyone in the old camion service evcr gut to tbe trerlches, as I remember it, 1t was because he was drinking, not wisely hut too we11, :lud even then I remel11ber no inst~lnH:s of it. Tbe onIy trip to the trenches that was actua11y such, was a little escapade of 1\'110friends of l11il1.e,Harold French and
lohn H. Fletcher, wb.o left tbeir camion alongside a road and hik.ed up tbe line one night. They onIy goi ,as far as the second line of h:enches however and got pinched there. Kautz also, speaks atout men coming in after having stoppeÜ spent rifle balls with tbeir tin derbies. Now I wonder why he made the number so low. Every man in the camion service can show you a nick either in bis heImet 01' in the camion hc drove thai was clone by ene1l1Y shrapnel. Again with regard to cjlsualties. Kautz says that onIy a few IDen of his secH on arc disabled by wounds. He throws the statement aside as har;dly worth mentioning in the next sentence by the casual explanatio~r that they are only flesh wounds and the sufferers from thel11 will soon be back to duty. Now there may have teen a number of l11en with light flesh wounds in Kautz; section hut it ducs not. stand to rcason that there were, everything considered, fram tbc fact that almost everyone in tlre camion service whd ever goi wounded was cited in anny orders and given a decoration. As far as official reports go 011 the ether hand the only two men ,who were ever wounded by enemy fire were Thomp60n and Lal11ont. Hut the crowning opportunity foT L. vV. or J. W. C. lies in Kautz reference to what he was atout to send his ordetly'out to do for hi111. Now, alLof 11S wiu admit that the old Field Service c1ays were thc great days, hut never at their pall11iest zenit1r do I 01" al1.y of theformer members I have teen ahle to eonsult, remember anyone heini assigned a, personal orderly, not even these of us who held the rank ,of brigadier, wh ich Kautz says he held and which he explains was 11igher than the si111i1iar rank in, the infantry 01' artillcry We all like to throw the bull aud each bas a brand of his OWll hut this bu11 of Kautz to an audience of camion drivers amuscs hut does not i111press, and so I wish you would "sie'" J. W. C. anel L. W. on him.
D. D., (Mallet -Reserve). y
EXTRACTS
FROM
PERSONAL
LETTERS
lohn W. Ames ($.S.U. 2) aspirant in Frelleh Arti11ery, wrote frOl11 Aix-Ies-Bains, November 7, 1918: " I was wounded in tbe right forear111 and hand j l1st a 11l0nth aga. I got caught in a little hole near the battery by a volley of 77S alld they eame so thick für a few l11irmtes tlrat I did 11ot clare l110ve and Olle landed right beside me getting me from tbc
t;
01' something, one of the fellows in the sechen feld me to gei same queer n,ul1ecl salve and rnb on 111yself. So I did and it is just fin2 für little Eustace. He is getting much Im'ger and very fat. I am sure he likes the salve. Hut my itehil1g doesn't ger any bett er, yet I think it will seen. It is no fun to itch aud s-.:ratch all night, amI besides I a111 afraid to disttl1'b little Eustaee, If I eould take off my clothing he would not be disturbed. Otherwise I am alright. " '
elDow down and ehewing up atout half my right hand. I waS lueky as it was I guess, hut if my ehoice bad been asked 1 woul(l have preferred having it in the,left hand. After spending a weck in a perfectly fierce little hospital ne ar the front I was shipped (lov,J1lhere in a freight car and here am pretty well fixed up. It 1S a gODelhospital and the surgeon is a corker, whieh is the main thing. He is goillg to cremte on me in a few days and 'try to gi ve me the use of wh at is left of my hand and arm. Then 1 probably have allother month ahead of me before beillg well so thai I hore I may be ahle to gei llpto Paris foT Xmas. "
--~~--
-,----Aspirant J. ,'ember 9th:
Timothy
Walker,
X writes : Jr.
(r.M.V,
133)writes
on
. "lt hardly seems possible, let it is quite evideutly true thai it 1s not railling, hut is in f:act a very beautiful day. Think of it a day not only withou't rain, hut actually the SUll! As the Lieu renant says, surely it is the end of tlle war, when we have good weather in Belgium, " I \yiSh you could have St;en how pleased
the sous-officier§
wert
with the carton of Bastos cigarettes from the old Field Servietj lt so happened they were' almost entirely out of tobacco, and so the cigarettes were real1y a gift fro'm .heaven. They asked 1l1e tü thank lau, so you will please consider this the formal thauks .antl appredatioll of the solls-officiers of the quatrierne batterie."
Another fellows :
'I.
old ainbulancier,
J. vV. H.
(old
2 aud
10) writes
a
No-
~~
" I am sittillg in 1llY ambulance ancl I must tell lau, atout the little bug thai has made his home s01l1ewhere in my cant. He is the cutest little fellow lever saw, \Vhellever,I have nothing to do I can always 'find him-in, where the sewillg iso The other day I was looking for him ,sud I thought I feIt two of them, hut I guess I was mistil!,en. lt is nice to think a !ittle fellow (like this oue is) will have a wann place to spend the cold winter. Auel you need never think I am a11 alone. It gets pretty cold over here hut I. know he will keep warm. Alld when the shells go screeching overhead I wender what would bec01lle of him if I were kille(l. But I guess he must take the same chances as I da. The ether c1ay when I was seratching\ für I 11lHSt have the .hives
\1
n
"I saw a train of "'Ollllded ani ve few days ogo, aud among tlle French wounclecl j:Jeing canied out waa a man wh01ll I reC0gnizec1. He was an .Americall, Van Duzer Burton, formerly 1llel11ber of Sections 13 anel 8 of the Ameriean Field Service. He hael teen baelly woun.cJed twice in the. leg ancl was also gassed. I have teen told that he lnd teen decorated rar bravery. He was SenT1ng 'with the - Artillery with the - Division of Ca, yalry aml lIas teen in the Freneh anl1Y since February. Burton was physically disqualifled trom the Al11eriean arl11Y and was a former melllber of a. squac1rol1 of New-York ca\'ahy. "
NOTICES
'fhe Fielet Service 1Iwetquarters will be glael to buy aud send home Christ111as presents für any of its members who mal wish to ayail the1l1selves of this opportunity.
. Owing to the inneasing nUluber oI weekly visitors at heaclquarters, tlle Field Service has relltec1 two apartments, Olle at 16 rue Raynouarc1, aud the other at 3, Square Tl.aynouarc1, opposite 21. These apartments are for former nleinbers of the Field Service who are now offic.crs in the U, S. Anny, anel who, when in Paris, may eHre to sial at headquarters, but may be glad: to Ilave special e0111Iorts an(l conyeniences. A earetaker i5 elllployetl für these two apartmcnts, wl1o, on request, will gei breakfast, 01, if 1l0tiee is giveu iJi ac1vance, will be glacl to anfluge für
t;
01' something, one of the fellows in the sechen feld me to gei same queer n,ul1ecl salve and rnb on 111yself. So I did and it is just fin2 für little Eustace. He is getting much Im'ger and very fat. I am sure he likes the salve. Hut my itehil1g doesn't ger any bett er, yet I think it will seen. It is no fun to itch aud s-.:ratch all night, amI besides I a111 afraid to disttl1'b little Eustaee, If I eould take off my clothing he would not be disturbed. Otherwise I am alright. " '
elDow down and ehewing up atout half my right hand. I waS lueky as it was I guess, hut if my ehoice bad been asked 1 woul(l have preferred having it in the,left hand. After spending a weck in a perfectly fierce little hospital ne ar the front I was shipped (lov,J1lhere in a freight car and here am pretty well fixed up. It 1S a gODelhospital and the surgeon is a corker, whieh is the main thing. He is goillg to cremte on me in a few days and 'try to gi ve me the use of wh at is left of my hand and arm. Then 1 probably have allother month ahead of me before beillg well so thai I hore I may be ahle to gei llpto Paris foT Xmas. "
--~~--
-,----Aspirant J. ,'ember 9th:
Timothy
Walker,
X writes : Jr.
(r.M.V,
133)writes
on
. "lt hardly seems possible, let it is quite evideutly true thai it 1s not railling, hut is in f:act a very beautiful day. Think of it a day not only withou't rain, hut actually the SUll! As the Lieu renant says, surely it is the end of tlle war, when we have good weather in Belgium, " I \yiSh you could have St;en how pleased
the sous-officier§
wert
with the carton of Bastos cigarettes from the old Field Servietj lt so happened they were' almost entirely out of tobacco, and so the cigarettes were real1y a gift fro'm .heaven. They asked 1l1e tü thank lau, so you will please consider this the formal thauks .antl appredatioll of the solls-officiers of the quatrierne batterie."
Another fellows :
'I.
old ainbulancier,
J. vV. H.
(old
2 aud
10) writes
a
No-
~~
" I am sittillg in 1llY ambulance ancl I must tell lau, atout the little bug thai has made his home s01l1ewhere in my cant. He is the cutest little fellow lever saw, \Vhellever,I have nothing to do I can always 'find him-in, where the sewillg iso The other day I was looking for him ,sud I thought I feIt two of them, hut I guess I was mistil!,en. lt is nice to think a !ittle fellow (like this oue is) will have a wann place to spend the cold winter. Auel you need never think I am a11 alone. It gets pretty cold over here hut I. know he will keep warm. Alld when the shells go screeching overhead I wender what would bec01lle of him if I were kille(l. But I guess he must take the same chances as I da. The ether c1ay when I was seratching\ für I 11lHSt have the .hives
\1
n
"I saw a train of "'Ollllded ani ve few days ogo, aud among tlle French wounclecl j:Jeing canied out waa a man wh01ll I reC0gnizec1. He was an .Americall, Van Duzer Burton, formerly 1llel11ber of Sections 13 anel 8 of the Ameriean Field Service. He hael teen baelly woun.cJed twice in the. leg ancl was also gassed. I have teen told that he lnd teen decorated rar bravery. He was SenT1ng 'with the - Artillery with the - Division of Ca, yalry aml lIas teen in the Freneh anl1Y since February. Burton was physically disqualifled trom the Al11eriean arl11Y and was a former melllber of a. squac1rol1 of New-York ca\'ahy. "
NOTICES
'fhe Fielet Service 1Iwetquarters will be glael to buy aud send home Christ111as presents für any of its members who mal wish to ayail the1l1selves of this opportunity.
. Owing to the inneasing nUluber oI weekly visitors at heaclquarters, tlle Field Service has relltec1 two apartments, Olle at 16 rue Raynouarc1, aud the other at 3, Square Tl.aynouarc1, opposite 21. These apartments are for former nleinbers of the Field Service who are now offic.crs in the U, S. Anny, anel who, when in Paris, may eHre to sial at headquarters, but may be glad: to Ilave special e0111Iorts an(l conyeniences. A earetaker i5 elllployetl für these two apartmcnts, wl1o, on request, will gei breakfast, 01, if 1l0tiee is giveu iJi ac1vance, will be glacl to anfluge für
1:1
, private lunch or dinner in the dining IODIDS. The rates fot single rooms in these apartments are 8 francs a day. Meals, of CJurse, can always be had at headquarters across tbe street.
COMMtSSIONS
.
I
tN u. S. A. A. s.
Lieut. H. A. Webster (S.S.U. 2) lIas beeil prol11oted to Captain, Sanitary 001'ps. The following melllbers of the old Fjeld Service al11bu1ance sec tions have recenrly teen eolllmissioned ist Lieutenant U. S. A A. S.
Any officers who may eare to take advantage of this new arrangement, 1l1ay have rooms reserved für thepl by notifying the head(luarters as far in advance of their eoming as possible.
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The Rockefeller .Com1l1ission für the Prevention of Tuberculosis in France is interested in secur~ng, same A111erican Personnel in the way of; (I) Chauffeur-meehanicians, preferably between 25 and35 years of aga, who Cau drive a truck, 'operate a motion pieture machine and set up and demonstrate bea1th exhibits, in conncetion with travclling leeture outfits, which this Commission ie now operating in several departlllents in France ; (2) they are also interested in securing same A111ericans, preferably betweel1 '- 30'a1Hl 45 years of age, who have a gODel command od' French, to Sfrve as Directors md Leeturers for these travellil1g edueational (\lltfits. The work will probably last für three to five years, anel the C~:J1n1l1ission will probably not be interest(cd in elllploying t,j ther leetllrers 01' 111echanicians für less tllan Olle year.
Louis M. Quirin (S.S.U. 65). Bertrand E. Trelllblay (S.S.U. 66). Wal tel' .TI Gores (S.S.U. 70). Robert R. Jewett (S.S.U. 72). George L. Wilson (S.S.U. 69). Russel H. Potter, .Tr. (S.S.U. 28). .Taek D. King (S.S.U. 71). Gl!rnee H. BarreH (S.S.U. 32). Ewen MacIntyre (S.S.U. 2). Carl A. Randau (S.S.U. 14 and 10). Roger A. ~urrell (S.S:U. 14).
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This makes the total of Al11erican Field Service men serving as officers with the Unitecl St~tes Anlly Al11bulance Service as follows: U.S.A.A.S.Lieut.Col I
If any l11el11ber of 'ehe old Field Sery,iee should be interested in 11laking inquiries regarding the' salary 01' other partieulars, he may collll11unicate direet with Mr. 'iNarren H. Booker, 12, Tue Hoissy-d' Anglas, Paris.
Major
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NOTES Robert P. Lal11ont, .Tr. T. M. U. I33-F who returned to Alllerica in Decelllber 1917 after heilIg seriously wounde~ in tlie battle of the Chelllill des Dames was married on Oetober 29th to Miss Jean Hopkins at Winnetka, Ill. The followÜlg Aspirants in French Artillery Observation Scho01: Harry W. Patterson (T.M.U. Frank Caldwell (S.S.U. 66). Robert HYl11an (T.M.U: 242). R. Sinullons (T.J\f.lj. 104).
Artillery 133).
are going to an
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T.M.U. 133 U. S. A. A. S., S.S.U. 635. S.S.U. 3 Ensign, U. S. N. Aviatiol1 Force, Paris. R. May S.S.U. 71 Pvt. B. H. 26, Hospita] Corps, A. E. F. Sectioll. T. Mc N'emcny S.S.U. 2 Capt. Aviation A. E. F. Sn1l1ner Page T.M.U. 537 Ensign Naval Aviation, U.S.A. Wentworth Shepard Of:fieers Training Schoo] S.S.V. 3C Camp lVIeade, Maryland. Matter.
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, private lunch or dinner in the dining IODIDS. The rates fot single rooms in these apartments are 8 francs a day. Meals, of CJurse, can always be had at headquarters across tbe street.
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Lieut. H. A. Webster (S.S.U. 2) lIas beeil prol11oted to Captain, Sanitary 001'ps. The following melllbers of the old Fjeld Service al11bu1ance sec tions have recenrly teen eolllmissioned ist Lieutenant U. S. A A. S.
Any officers who may eare to take advantage of this new arrangement, 1l1ay have rooms reserved für thepl by notifying the head(luarters as far in advance of their eoming as possible.
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The Rockefeller .Com1l1ission für the Prevention of Tuberculosis in France is interested in secur~ng, same A111erican Personnel in the way of; (I) Chauffeur-meehanicians, preferably between 25 and35 years of aga, who Cau drive a truck, 'operate a motion pieture machine and set up and demonstrate bea1th exhibits, in conncetion with travclling leeture outfits, which this Commission ie now operating in several departlllents in France ; (2) they are also interested in securing same A111ericans, preferably betweel1 '- 30'a1Hl 45 years of age, who have a gODel command od' French, to Sfrve as Directors md Leeturers for these travellil1g edueational (\lltfits. The work will probably last für three to five years, anel the C~:J1n1l1ission will probably not be interest(cd in elllploying t,j ther leetllrers 01' 111echanicians für less tllan Olle year.
Louis M. Quirin (S.S.U. 65). Bertrand E. Trelllblay (S.S.U. 66). Wal tel' .TI Gores (S.S.U. 70). Robert R. Jewett (S.S.U. 72). George L. Wilson (S.S.U. 69). Russel H. Potter, .Tr. (S.S.U. 28). .Taek D. King (S.S.U. 71). Gl!rnee H. BarreH (S.S.U. 32). Ewen MacIntyre (S.S.U. 2). Carl A. Randau (S.S.U. 14 and 10). Roger A. ~urrell (S.S:U. 14).
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This makes the total of Al11erican Field Service men serving as officers with the Unitecl St~tes Anlly Al11bulance Service as follows: U.S.A.A.S.Lieut.Col I
If any l11el11ber of 'ehe old Field Sery,iee should be interested in 11laking inquiries regarding the' salary 01' other partieulars, he may collll11unicate direet with Mr. 'iNarren H. Booker, 12, Tue Hoissy-d' Anglas, Paris.
Major
Sanitary
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NOTES Robert P. Lal11ont, .Tr. T. M. U. I33-F who returned to Alllerica in Decelllber 1917 after heilIg seriously wounde~ in tlie battle of the Chelllill des Dames was married on Oetober 29th to Miss Jean Hopkins at Winnetka, Ill. The followÜlg Aspirants in French Artillery Observation Scho01: Harry W. Patterson (T.M.U. Frank Caldwell (S.S.U. 66). Robert HYl11an (T.M.U: 242). R. Sinullons (T.J\f.lj. 104).
Artillery 133).
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T.M.U. 133 U. S. A. A. S., S.S.U. 635. S.S.U. 3 Ensign, U. S. N. Aviatiol1 Force, Paris. R. May S.S.U. 71 Pvt. B. H. 26, Hospita] Corps, A. E. F. Sectioll. T. Mc N'emcny S.S.U. 2 Capt. Aviation A. E. F. Sn1l1ner Page T.M.U. 537 Ensign Naval Aviation, U.S.A. Wentworth Shepard Of:fieers Training Schoo] S.S.V. 3C Camp lVIeade, Maryland. Matter.
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VISI1'ORB Ar, :21 RUE R~YNOUARD Daniel Gale Turuunll (S.S.U. 66) U. S. A. A. S. j James \\T. Harle (S.S.U. 10) Sgt. U. S. A. A. S. ; Aubrey L. Thomas .(S.S.U. 8 anl\ 13) U. S.' A. A. S. j 1\1. T. Block (S.S.U. 29) 2nd
Lieut. San. Ãœorps; Edwanl Sa1l1uelJr. (S.S.U. 18) U. S. A. A. S.
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Henry B. Wanen (S.S.li. ]8) U. S. A. A. S.; Chas. H. Griesa (S.S.U. 2), Ist Liel1t. 356th InJantry; Lawrence C. Aliles (S.S.U. 68) 2nd Lieut. Air Sen-ice; Harold B. Willig (S.S.U. 2) j A. H. Manley (T.JVLU. 526) li. S. A. S. j Benjamin O. Jacobsen (S.S.U. 2) U. S. A. A. S. ; Willard C. Jones (T.M.H. 133) A. R. C. Marseilles j Vernon E. Caughell (S.S.H. 10 and 14) U. S. A. S. j 1'ho111as'R. 1'anant (T.M.H. 526) H. S. A. S. j Edwill H. English (S.S.U. 4) U. S. A. A. S. j Arthur M. Dallin (S.S.H. I) 178 Reg. A. T., 38" Batterie; H. V. E111ery (A.R.C.) 25" Btn. Chars Legers; Benjamin C. Tower (1'. M. Ca11\p) lOJst. F. A, j Davil1 L. Garratt (S.S.U. 60) 32" R. A. C., Folltainebleau; Erwin L. Egger (S.S.U. 13) J7" Batt. 120 Regt. A. L.; F. D. Ogilvie (S.S.H. 2) British Red Cross. Al1l0ng the recent visitors at "21" were the followjng Eleve Aspirants from Fontai11ebleau :
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K. C. Wesley (S.S.U. 69)' H. D. Wand (S.S.U. 69). D. J. Post Jr. (S.S.U. 9). John A. Gordon (T.M.H. 'IS4). , L. H. Davidson (T.M.U. IS4). Francis C. Jones (T.M.U. 133). David M. Wesson (S.S.U. 70). Charles H. 'Fabens (T.M. H. 526.) B. P. Eldred Jr. (S.S.U. 66). Francis P. Nash (T.M.U. 397). John R. Craig, Jr. (S.S.U. 2), Richard Temple (T.M.U. 526). Cla,rence E. Roe (T.M.U. 526),
RaY1l1onclHanks (T.M.U. 133). P. Gooclrich (S.S.U. 12). G. E. Reh111 (S.S.U. 12). Douglas M. 8mi'h (T.M. U. 397). M. E. Dickerman (T,M.U.
. Frell.
IS,:,), Raymond H. Fussel! 397). Henry M. Hamilton 69).
Edward 10). Charles
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VISI1'ORB Ar, :21 RUE R~YNOUARD Daniel Gale Turuunll (S.S.U. 66) U. S. A. A. S. j James \\T. Harle (S.S.U. 10) Sgt. U. S. A. A. S. ; Aubrey L. Thomas .(S.S.U. 8 anl\ 13) U. S.' A. A. S. j 1\1. T. Block (S.S.U. 29) 2nd
Lieut. San. Ãœorps; Edwanl Sa1l1uelJr. (S.S.U. 18) U. S. A. A. S.
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Henry B. Wanen (S.S.li. ]8) U. S. A. A. S.; Chas. H. Griesa (S.S.U. 2), Ist Liel1t. 356th InJantry; Lawrence C. Aliles (S.S.U. 68) 2nd Lieut. Air Sen-ice; Harold B. Willig (S.S.U. 2) j A. H. Manley (T.JVLU. 526) li. S. A. S. j Benjamin O. Jacobsen (S.S.U. 2) U. S. A. A. S. ; Willard C. Jones (T.M.H. 133) A. R. C. Marseilles j Vernon E. Caughell (S.S.H. 10 and 14) U. S. A. S. j 1'ho111as'R. 1'anant (T.M.H. 526) H. S. A. S. j Edwill H. English (S.S.U. 4) U. S. A. A. S. j Arthur M. Dallin (S.S.H. I) 178 Reg. A. T., 38" Batterie; H. V. E111ery (A.R.C.) 25" Btn. Chars Legers; Benjamin C. Tower (1'. M. Ca11\p) lOJst. F. A, j Davil1 L. Garratt (S.S.U. 60) 32" R. A. C., Folltainebleau; Erwin L. Egger (S.S.U. 13) J7" Batt. 120 Regt. A. L.; F. D. Ogilvie (S.S.H. 2) British Red Cross. Al1l0ng the recent visitors at "21" were the followjng Eleve Aspirants from Fontai11ebleau :
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K. C. Wesley (S.S.U. 69)' H. D. Wand (S.S.U. 69). D. J. Post Jr. (S.S.U. 9). John A. Gordon (T.M.H. 'IS4). , L. H. Davidson (T.M.U. IS4). Francis C. Jones (T.M.U. 133). David M. Wesson (S.S.U. 70). Charles H. 'Fabens (T.M. H. 526.) B. P. Eldred Jr. (S.S.U. 66). Francis P. Nash (T.M.U. 397). John R. Craig, Jr. (S.S.U. 2), Richard Temple (T.M.U. 526). Cla,rence E. Roe (T.M.U. 526),
RaY1l1onclHanks (T.M.U. 133). P. Gooclrich (S.S.U. 12). G. E. Reh111 (S.S.U. 12). Douglas M. 8mi'h (T.M. U. 397). M. E. Dickerman (T,M.U.
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IS,:,), Raymond H. Fussel! 397). Henry M. Hamilton 69).
Edward 10). Charles
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