Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
PENN UNIT NURSES
/: TO OSTAY ON DUTY
Fifteen of Original Sixty
Volunteer to Remain
7: With Army
20 NOW IN BORDEAUX
Organization Earned Univer-
sal Praise, According to Men,
:. ber Just Arrived Home

!, Fifteen Of the original sixty nurses
= yho went abroad with Base Hospital
No. 20, the University of Pennsylvania
.shnit. have volunteered for duty with
the army of occupation in Germany and
rswill remain with that organization until
peace is finally signed and American
soldiers are withdrawn from Europe.
n. News OF their sacrifice In volunteering
for further service with the army when
the remaining nurses in the unit we're
Z. detached for the trip back home was
Brought to this country by members Of
q party of twenty-three nurses from the
: ss,,.-,unit - who landed at New York on the
transport Agamemnon.
Twenty others of the original party
! are still in Bordeaux awaiting trans
nj port to this country after a brief tour
Of duty at that seaport The fifteen
volunteers are already in Germany as
members of the nursing stag of mo-
!: bile hospital unit Not one but would
have been glad TO return home, the
nurses arriving home said, but they felt
!, the need for their services was so great
\ that they could not conscientiously de-
sert the task they had set out TO per
form until the job had been completed.
@ .uI Universally Praised
Miss Edith Irwin, In charge of the
party arriving home yesterday, said the
Ph ladelphia unit had earned universal
commentator for its work at the big
base hospital at Chatel Guyon. After the
drives at Chateau-Thierry and the Ar
gonne Forest, the fifty nurses were
forced TO work night and day to care
for the 2275 patients, she said ,
:, Three of the nurses will not return
ito their old homes, There's reason
Miss Letltia Gallagher became the bride
sof Lieutenant Colonel Sylvester Bonaf-
.fon, of 3439 Walnut street, regular
! 'army officer, on the porch of the Inter-
nat onal Hotel at Chatel Guyon on Feb
---ruary l. Miss Marie Bergstresser viii
soon become the bride Of Captain Will
liam Bates. of Camden, and Miss Eliza
.beth Coombs will marry Captain George
strode, of West Chester. They all went
abroad as members of unit twenty.
.. Besides those already mentioned. the
list includes the Misses Anna Bortek.
Viola Brothers. Lucille Conant. Edith
---- Davis, Lillian Forster, Anna Hawkins,
SUISSE Higgins Adele Jackson, Sabina
,,s, Kchr Margaret Lyster. NJ. Louise Miller.
= Nettie Parkinson, Clara Street Mary
= Walbert and Florence Williams. They
- air gave their residence AS tho Uni
p versity of Pennsylvania.
- Among the returning casual officers on
= the Agamemnon We're Majors Charles II
u Fife, 203S Chestnut street, and John w
Price, a University of Pennsylvania
man.
Major Fife went to France a year age
with the Presbyterian Hospital unit OF
{. Philadelphia. but was afterward detailed
I to the Episcopal unit. He said thai
the latter outfit had already been put oil
! the priority list and would be home
shortly.
!. The Mount Vernon arrived nine
: hours before the Agamemnon go,
to her pier. She left Brest on Feb
! rurary 4, seven hours later than the
Agamemncn, and passed the latter
which had on board several more de.
I, tachments of the Twenty-seventh Divi'
sion, New York National Guard, thirty
six hours afterward.
Two Lucky Philadelphians
20 Martin Costello. private. of 1856 Elm
,5aYenue, Ardmore, and Charles Sweeten
s 1886 Germantown avenue. were amonf
the lucky men iI the 102d Ammunition
- Train who survived nineteen engage
- ments during the course of which tn,
detail was cited six different times II
the army orders They told of the cap
- ture of a wounded German woman who
had been In the front lines with the
enemy.
Thomas J. Cook. 6046 North Six