The Bismarck tribune., 1918-12-17
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an excellent opportunity to see many
interesting operations. He had been
ut base hospital further south, but
had been sent to the front as one OF
an operating team. s,,ysl. -
/ was assigned to Evacuation Hos
pital No. II. located some ten OF
twelve miles southwest Of Vertlun and
remained there until the arnistice
was signed. SO heard the last guns
of the war in this sector. At Evacua-
ton Hospital No. Ia, net Il number
Of North Dakotans..
DR.. L. 7. Quain. now Il lieutenant
colonel, was there in the last drive as
head of an operating team from his
hospital unit. no. GO. of which he is
the commanding otficex. Among those
with him were DR.. Stickney's son-in-
law from Dickinson and two nurses,
Miss Jennie GOOt1llan of Drake, and
Miss Annabelle Foss, Of Wilton. All
were well. Col Quain and l went into
Vcrdun together and also to Dead
Mans hill.
Not. far from us the y. NJ. &. \. had
Il big distributing depot. Went over
one day to arrange for daily papers
for our hospital. Found the man in
charge of the Y. NJ. {. A. was l. NJ
cupper, Of Baldwin and Bismarck, and
it goes without saying that the boys in
our hospital got the papers every day
Through The Kindness Of Mr. Capper.
SOmeSNorth Dakota: boys came into
the hospital fer wounds or gas--amMlg
them Soldier George "A. Stephenson OF
Co. G, 9th infantry. whose home is at
Lisbon. lie was getting Oh nicely and
was sent south to a base hospital.
One night one Of the doctors ca nc
into the receiving ward and said 4
wished to see me. i went to the ward
which had about 125 soldiers in it >, Ill
awake, and asked Nif there, was Il sol
der from North Dakota there. 7.''. 49,
~. n FINDS JOHN MURPHY
One Of the boys answered up and
said fright here" 1t was John b
Murphy Of the machine gun company
Of the 9th marines, whose home is
mead Mapletoll, where his father, NJ
G. Murphy, has large farm.
John had been gasscd and was prct.
tN hoarse but in splendid spirits. Hi.
brother Leo was wounded at Cham.
paGne, and was in a hospital near Paris
and doing we'll John was evacuated
out that night to'a base hospital and
l hope he was sent to the one where
his brother was. John was a fine :'pG
of the American soldier. brave. earnest,
giving full credit to that which his
comrades had done, modest as to his
own deeds and passing by his own
huts as nothing worth bOthering about.
Just north of our hospitals were the
camp headquarters Of the 18th L. S.
engineers.
WHITING ON THE JOB
The lieutenant colonel of the resi-
ment was 1t. Col. G. L. Whiting. who
was for many years connected with the
Northern Pacific Railroad company,
with headquarters ut jamestown. His
home is now at Lewistown, Mont.
where he is division superintendent
engineers had charge of all the Oper-
alton Of all the railroads in the ad-
van zone from Saint MihiCl to Verdun
and on to the Areonnc forest. I am
indebted to Colonel Whiting for some
very interesting trips along the front
lines and which without his assist
encc, in the way of passes could not
have been made. I
Running by our hospital was one
Of the main roads to the front. Up
the road the town Of Varennes was
reached, about fourteen miles from us.
The main line of the Germans ran
through the town and WIS held by
them for nearly four years. Three
miles southwest of the town the Ger
mon lines cut through the Argonnes
forest. r. ~ ..- aa.
You have no doubt heard. Of the
palatial German >dugouts and it was
here in the woods in the place de-
were. With some friends we visited
them Nov. 8. They were just being
occupied by an American division, l
think the 18th. which had just come
back from the front for rest. One o.
the first men j met there was, 1t
Col. Edward f. Kelley of !. the u. S.
Signal corps. whose hame is at Med
ford, Ore, but who used to live at Car
rington. N. D. Colonel Kelley was
very kind. introduced us to the COM
manding officer. Major General Cronk-
hite, and members Of his staff and
also showed us through the dugouts.
Some time shall hope to, write and
tell you Of them. Colonel Kelley wish
ed to be remembered to his old Car
ringtoIl friends and / take this oppor-
tunity of doing so for him.
GRRETS BISMARCK OFFICER.
Nov. IL. the day the armistiice was
signed, while standing in front of
one of our hospital buildings. an
auto drove up and an officer got
out, and spoke to me. It was Major
Frame Baker Of Bismarck. About
half a mile from our hospital build
ings the Unfred States government
had ono of the largest supply dumps
in all of France. Twpnty-seven di-
visions got part or oil Of their supplies
from there and hundreds Of camions
were loaded there every twenty-four
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