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, OF concentrations and citations and
honors. Gen. Pershing got reports of
their work and recommended them for
the Distinguished Service Cross. which
was to have been awarded to them on
Boston Common two weeks ago, but It
was characteristic of them that they
abandoned their own celebration to
come to New York and help the Sal
walton Army in its work for the Vic
tory Loan.
After Irene Mcintyre had returned
from the hospital, not we'll, but able
to do her work again, she and her sis
ter won't to Raulecourt, where they
stayed with the troops of the Twenty
sixth Division for five months. This
was in the Toul sector also, in a quiet
area, and 1t was there that they went
to the front line trenches and then
sneaked out into No Mans Land and
picked a few flowers, which they sent
to their father. And near Boucouville,
In that sector, they climbed into the
steeple of a church and had view of
the German trenches, with real Ger
man soldiers in them.
During their stay there Gladys got
pneumonia and went to the hospital.
and then she had an attack of ap-
pendicitis. which also put her in the
hospital for a while. Irene stayed on
and made doughnuts and pies, and
when Gladys came out of the hospital
they went down into the Lorraine
sector of the Seventy-seventh, and
remained there with the Thirty-sev-
enth when that division relieved the
New York troops in August. They
went up into the st. Mihiel with the
Thirty seventh, and from a hill in
front of Montfaucon saw the begin
ming of that drive, and the men OF
the Thirty seventh in their positions
>resdy to go over. And from there they
went with the same division into the
Argonne. Owing to the difficulties OF
transport they got far ahead of their
supplies. and there came a day when
there was no flour and no coffee and
no cocoa for the Salvation Army
kitchen. But instead Of sitting around
doing nothing, the Mcintyre sisters
Immediately found field dressing sta
ton, and there. within range of the,
German artillery and frequently I'M,
der shell fire, they helped the surgeons.
washing the dirt off wounded dough-
boys and doing all sorts of work for,
which there was not enough of the
medical detachment. 1t was there that
Irene was gassed again from the
fumes that came from the clothing OF
the wounded doughboys. 1t was not so
serious this time, however. and she
was not compelled to go to the hos
pital. But it was partly because she
had been gassed that she came home.
because the army surgeons advised her
that the climate of France was very
bad for her
Their Tribute to Our Men.
The Mcintyre girls cooked dough-
nuts and made pies and sewed on but
tons and mended clothing and did all
sorts OF things for the soldiers of the
First, Twenty sixth, Eighty-second.
Seventy seventh, Thirty-s event n,
Thirty-ninth, Twenty ninth, Ninety
first, Twenty eighth and Seventh Divi-
sicns, besides a lot OF others whose
names they cannot remember. When
the armistice was signed they were at
Thiaucourt. not more than a mile and
Il half from the front line. They
probably have come in contact with
more American troops than any other
two women in France or the United
States. and after all their experiences
with them this is the tribute they pay
TO them:
"Our boys are fine. They were kind
to us under any and all circumstances
and in all the time we were there not
one Of them said anything to either OF
US that was the least bit out of the way
They treated us as II we were their
own sisters, and We never saw n
doughboy, a real fiGhting man, that
we couldn't trust. They were always
eager and willing TO help us, and
their appreciation OF what we tried 10
do FOR them was a great reward to us,
and a source OF great happiness"