The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19
Letters Tell About
 Those Thought Lost
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bruck-Loc, 50, one of 24 members of the British American ambulance corps on route to Mombassa, Kenya, to serve with the Free French forces of Gen. Charles De Gaullc. A nat uralized American, the captain, for merly a count, served with the Austrian army during the World war.
 Letters to Friend
 At Trinidad and again at Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. he dispatched diary-like letters to his friend. Baron Henry Hennet. in New York. The letters tell of life aboard tn2 crowd- cd litt!e steamer and reveal that the Zamzam, from Trinidad on. was sail- ing constantly under the shadow of war.
 The ambulance unit had 20 cars, field kitchen and an x-ray trailer aboard. On March 25, five days after the Zamzam left New York, Wyden- brilek wrote;
 "The waves came over the bow gave q good christening to six of our cars which didn't find room in the hold and will have to continue the trip on deck"
 Many Missionaries
 The ship was crowded with mis- Sionaries whose conduct interested the writer.
 "They spend several hours Q day singing hymns, accompanied by 6 trombone player" he noted.
 Tn addition to the Protestant mis- sionaries there were "a number of French Canadian Catholic priests, @ nice and quiet lot," and ew'"to- bacco and other business men, and wives joining their husbands somc- where in Africa"
 Wydenbruck jotted down the Zamzam's roll of honor" which he found posted in the corridor:
 "As s. s. Lecestershire, war ser- vice in August, 1914. she transported the 17th LancerS from Bombay to Marseilies. Tn November, 1917, she conveyed 2,000 troops from Plymouth to Bombay. Between April and Aug ust. 1918, after taking 2,000 British troops to Archangel. she brought to London and Liverpool 5,000 Ameri- can troops. In December, 1918. she was requisitioned to repatriate Australian troops and in two voy- ages carried 5000 officers and men Liverpool to Freemantle, Melbourne, and sydney.
 Skipper Talk
 The Zamzam'S captain. W. c, Smith, q Scot, told Wydenbruck-Loe that Inc was skipper Of a merchant man in the North Sea last year, and while being conveyed by the British navy, two ships next to him were blown Up by U-boatS."
 He told us more about this extra ordinary ship" Wydenbruck-Loc wrote. Tn November last year, af- ter returning from Japan and lying in Alexandria harbor, among many English warships and other mer- chantmen, she was bombed by Ital- Han flyers. A 500-pound bomb hit on the port side Of her stern. set the bridge on fire, and one fragment hit the smoke stack, which scar is patched Up and plainly visibel. What brave old veteran she B."
 After leaving Trinidad "the real blackout started, and thereafter the Zamzan's 323 passengers and crew never lacked for reminders of war.
 We are not allowed to use our radios--oscillati from them are liable to spot U," Wydenbruck wrote, "and even the radio operator is not allowed to give Us news. as they (sic) might upset the passengers"
 Not Too Pleasant
 Keeping the portholes tightly closed in tropic seas was mot too pleasant" but Wydenbruck phil- osophically wrote that "it will be early autumn when we reach South Africa"
 The Protestant missionaries spent much of their time conducting les- sons in the swahali tongue, and some of the ambulance drivrs at- tended. The ambulance unit also started French lessons with -four Of our men who speak French pretty well" conducting them.
 On April the ship crossed the equator and the passengers particl- pated in the customary crossing tine line" ceremonies.
 Philip N. FaverSham, 33. son of the famous actor, William Faver- sham, was Neptune "in a white bathrobe, beard made of rope, card- board crown, and three-pronged fork" Other members of the am- bulance unit took other roles asd the queen was "a very sweet English girl"
 Everyone was initiated and the ladies were wonderful sports and 1ooLr tI,a ro,,Oh handling hpatiti-