The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-04-11

situations in France.
Although the hospital of Mrs. Brad
lev Lee at Creil is for contagious
cases-and nearly every patient is also
suffering from Il wound or o gas
besides-the death rate is only Il little
more than 3 per cent.
Having received the bronze and sill
yer medals Of honor for services for
In Patrie, Mrs. Bradley Lee has now
been proposed for the gold medal and
will be decorated with it when she
takes possession of her new hospital.
French army engineers are building
this hospital with a capacity of 500
beds, on the hill just south of this
town, which is the principal base ana
depot of the Army Of the North and
Centre.
Nearly 5000 men have passed
through Mrs. Bradley Lees hospital
during the three years she has had it,
and the beautiful American woman
has been seen at the bedside of every
one of the hundred-odd men who have
died there, ministering to him until
the end.
Mrs. Bradley Lee is the widow Of
| David Bradley, and a descendant of
| Gen. Robert L. Lee. She has lived in
France for some years, owning u hand
some chateau nenr Chantilly. At the
beginning of the war she served as
a nurse and assistant on an army au-
tomobile carrying Il portable A-ray
machine.
In those early days of the great
struggle the hospital arrangements
for wounded had not been organized,
and few N-ray machines were availa-
BILE anywhere near the front. So they
were taken from hospitals and labora-
tories in Paris, mounted lin big high
powered cars and sent tearing along
the front from place to place, where
photographs were made Of wounded
soldiers.
The X-ray ambulance squad te
which Mrs. Bradley Lee was attached
worked along the Flanders front dur
ing the terrible battle Of the User
when the Germans were trying to
break through to the Channel ports,
und during the first battle of Ypres,
when attempts were made to drive q
wedge between the French army and
the British expeditionary force.
Wounded by Shell Splinter.
In November of 1914 Mrs. Bradley
Lee was wounded by a shell splinter
just behind the User line, as her X
ray automobile convoy was approach
ing Il field hospital, to photograph
number Of Belgian, British am
French soldiers in whom were frag
lnents of bullets and steel. After Mrs
Bradley Lee was wounded u genera
order was issued by the allied armies
prohibiting women in Red Cross work
from going so rear the fighting area
as to be under fire.
Mrs. Bradley Lees wound proved
only slight, and in January, 1915, she
opened her hospital for contagious
cases here, only a few miles from hel
chateau at Chantilly. In the three
years that have elapsed she has not
slept once under her own roof, ant
has only visited her home a score Of
times a year to inspect it and obtain
new outfits of clothing and other
necessaries. She has been to Paris
only half IL dozen times in the three
years, and was then on business with
the ministry for health. She has not
taken a single "day off" since the hos
pital was opened.
Owing to its importance as a mill
tary base and army headquarters
Creil is n Of the hardest towns
along the front for any civilian to &C
to. Before the war 1t was the juno
ton point where passengers from
England, who had come down by raj
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