Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-01-17
NEWS FROM ACROSS THE SEAS.

Raymond Beerend, who has been in
service "over there, very unexpect-
eddy dropped in and surprised his par
ents on last Saturday evening, spend
ing Sunday on furlough, and leaving
Monday morning for Camp Grant. He
is looking fine.
Ye editor received a card this week
from VIM. Kenney, stating he has
been to Nice on a furlough; out to
Monte Carlo; had dinner with the
Prince of Morocco, etc. He is evil
IDENTIFY well and making the most of
his opportunities for sightseeing.
Miss Helen Kinney, writing from
Nevers, says she is well and happy,
but Just little bit homesick at last
writing, inasmueh as she had Just re-
ceived letter from our own Thomas
Tiff in which he stated he was wait
ing for a transport to come home.
Helen has just been relieved from
taking care of fifty of the boys sick
with diphtheria. There are now only
twelve nurses among the 400 men
in the unit, so all are a little busy.
Originally there were twenty nurses,
but eight of the girls were laid away
during the first seven weeks after
they reached their destination, leav-
ing A saddened but determined COM
pany of young women to help in the
fight In the last letter received
from Helen she said they were plan
ming to celebrate Christmas and two
of the boys were then out looking for
a suitable tree and they were saving
their tinsel and pretty yarns for dec
orations on it.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wells have
not heard from their son George for
several weeks, the last letter being
dated November Is, written from Ger
many. He was then wen and presum-
ably in the occupation army.
Fremont Roe has not been heard
from since letter of October 20, at
which time he was in the hospital
with pleurisy. Since then Miss Kin
ney has written her mother that FIRE.
mont was the only boy from Wauwa-
tosa she had seen.
Mr. and Mrs. Tyrrell received a let
ter last week from their son Royal,
who has been separated from his regi-
ment and sent into the army of occu-
patton in Germany He was still in
the hospital recovering from a severe
case of blood poisoning caused by a
bite on his finger from either rat
lfxrfr1
in German dugout. Several other
boys were also bitten. For 43 days
the regiment went over the top, not
being allowed any sort of arms, not
even a pistol, and they felt so abso-
lutely helpless. Following the poison
ing they kept actually in service with
out the necessary care, until Royal
was in very poor shape and he was
finally taken to hospital with the
poison throughout his entire system.
The hospital was bombed and he
was also bombed and he was hastily
removed to Base Hospital 19, near
Vichie, where he was located and i'm
proving when writing last In the last
hurried charge his clothing was all
left behind and he was supplied with
an outfit about two sizes too small,
which he was still wearing. No mail
of any nature had reached him for
many, many weeks.
Arthur Jackson has seen three
months of active service with the
heavy tank corps and has had some
very interesting experiences. In one
instance only three of twelve men IN
the tank came out alive, and Arthur
was one of them. He only wants TO
cross the pond once more and that is
to get home. His brother Ben is
sergeant with the First American
Army, and has had some very narrow
escapes during his five months OF
service at the front He was wounded
in August and spent several weeks III
a hospital. At last reports he was
hilletted in French village, actually
awaiting orders to be sent home. An
other brother Guy, is corporal IN
the 339th Field Artillery and had just
completed the intensive training re-
quired and would nave been moved to
the front very soon when the armls-
tice was signed His only regret Is
that he was not able to get shot at
the Huns.