Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-20
u NURSES BACK
AWAIT COMRADES
II Other Jefferson Hospital
Unit Members With
Army in Germany
MAJ. WILLARD RETURNS
Organizations Nos. 10 and 20
Get Sailing Orders to
~ Start Soon
MAJ. WILLARD RETURNS

Twenty-seven nurses OF Base Hos
pital Unit No 80, which was organized
and trained at the Jefferson Hospital
have arrived In this country after ten
months service in the battle zone.
Approximately seventy-seven nurses
of the original personnel of the unit are
still in Europe, many being attached to
mobile hospitals in the rear of the
American army of occupation in Ger
many. Others are expected to sail from
Brest to this country shortly.
Two other units. in which Philadel-
phians are Interested, have received
sailing notices. Baso Hospital No. 90,
the University of Pennsylvania organi-
zation. and Base Hospital No. 10, tho
Pennsylvania Hospital unit, will arrive
IN the United States within few weeks,
the latter about the end of March.
The Jefferson Hospital nurses arrived
IN New York aboard the transport Har-
risburg, which also brought the 147th
Infantry and casualty companies They
were in charge Of Captain Frank II.
Hustead. $40 North Carlisle street. De-
spite their siege Of arduous labor aboard
the nurses seemed to be in the best of
health. a condition, they explained. they
had attained on tho voyage across, as
many had been In poor physical condi-
ton when they sailed
Possibly the most interesting story
told by any OF tho Gag persons aboard
the Harrisburg was that of Miss Cath
crime +. Logue $50 Wents street, Olney,
whose brother, Francis Vincent Logue,
Company A, 1l2th Signal Corps, was
within a short distance of her on six
different occasions in France without
the two meetings. He is now on q
transport returning home.
81, Major willard Back
Major p. f. 2. Willard, an ortheo-
, pedic specialist OF the University of
Pennsylvania, was a passenger OH the
Harrisburg returning after twenty-five
months service as O consultant in vari-
GUS base hospitals throughout France
Erwin G. Garrett, a private Of Com
pany G, of the Sixteenth Regulars, was
among the casuals in the company of
Pennsylvanians on the Harrisburg He
lived at 431 West Stafford street. Cor
mantown, and is known to Philadel-
phian. as poet, the author Of THE
Ameri, IN Army Ballads
Probably the most seriously wounded
man among the casuals on the Harris
burg was Corporal W. L. thinner, of
$500 North Eleventh street, Phiadel-
phta, a member Of Company L, Of the
10eth Infantry In the attack on Fismes
IN the latter part Of August he was
wounded in both hips and arms by ma
chine-gun bullets.
- Lieutenant Charles T.. Ristine, a for
mer banker living at Bryn Mamr was
among those on the Harrisburg. He
was wounded when caught in a barrage
in the Champagne sector. He was in a
hospital for six weeks and has re-
covered.
Cruisers in Port
The cruisers Seattle and Charleston,
which got into port, each brought a
Pennsylvania casual company, compris-
ing men who were formerly with tho
Twenty-eighth, Seventy eighth ~nd Sew
enty-ninth Divisions. and were injured
during the last stages of the war, prin-
cipally in the Argonne Forest.
Among the soldiers aboard the Seattle
was Anthony Destifano, of 1884 Thomp-
son street who was captured by the
Germans OF July rs when fighting with
the machine gun company of the 1O9th
Infantry at Chateau-Thierry. Seven
ether men from the keystone division
who were captured at the same time also
returned.
Lieutenant George D. Bragdon 701
North Marlyn road, West Philadelphia
who was with the 10th Infantry. was
also among the officers on the Seattle
Philadelphia nurses attached to Base
Hospita No. 80, who returned on the
Harrisburg, were Clara Melville, 81
North Fifty-second street; Margaret A.
Kane, 2036 De Lancey place Katherine
A. Logue, 1870 Wentz street, Olney; Ger
trude Van Pelt, 2035 De Lancey place
Mary Van Pelt, same address; Helen
Wilbee, S26 Cornwall street.