Field hospital

THEY'RE JUMPIN' AND THEY'RE HUMPIN' THROUGH THE INKY GLOOM O' NIGHT.

and i wonder how them drivers see without a glim of light i can hear the clutches roaring as they throw the gears in high and the radiators boiling as the trucks go rolling by there's some a dragging cannons you can spot the sound all right the rumbling ones is heavies and the rattly ones is light the clinking shells is pointing up their noses at the sky oh you can tell what's passin as the trucks go rollin by but most of em is packin loads of human yankee freight that'll slam the old soft pedal on to heinie's him hate you can hear em singin dixie and the sweet by and by and where do we go from here boys as the trucks go rollin by some singin songs as when i left they wasn't even ripe a showin at these rookies what ain't got a service stripe but just the same they're good ole yanks and that's the reason why i likes the jazz and barber-shop of the trucks a rollin by just god and general pershing knows where these here birds light where them bumpin trucks is bound for under camouflage o night when they can't take arrow pitchers with their falkers and the sky of our changes a location by the trucks a rollin by so although my bed is puddles and i'm soaked through to the hide my heart's out with them doughboys on their bouncin singin ride they're bound for paths of glory or perhaps to fight and die god bless that yankee cargo and the trucks a rollin by l w suckert first lieutenant a s Gettin' Letters by E.C.D. Field Hospital Read by John Greenman for LibriVox.org Gettin' Letters When you're far away from home and you're feelin' kinda blue When the world is topsy-turvy, nothin' sets just right for you You can sneer at all your troubles and your cares, you never mind When you've really had a letter from the girl you left behind when the cook is downright nutty and his biscuits never raise when he feeds you canned tomatoes for just seventeen straight days you can quite forget he's nutty you can treat him fairly kind if you've really had a letter from the girl you left behind when the captain's got a grouch on and has bawled you out for fair when some pesky lute has sassed you which to home he wouldn't dare you can lift your chin and whistle and that's easy you will find if you've really had a letter from the girl you left behind when a letter comes you grab it right before the other guys and you get a little vision of the light that's in her eyes you can see her smiles and dimples and for other girls you're blind when you've really had a letter from the girl you left behind just a sheet or two of paper with a purple stamp or two But it means the whole creation to the heart and soul of you.

And you get to feeling pious.

And you pray a bit, you mind, for the great almighty's blessing on the girl you left behind.

Transcription by CastingWords

E. C. D.

FIELD HOSPITAL.

i wish you children playing round on this too rudely trampled ground only the good things i would send to all the children i befriend but one wish circles all to know little of what your elders do and somehow into the sunlight grow out of the mists they stumble through.

This addition would put them on an unassailable footing.

The British field hospital was also to be re-established at Furn and work in connection with the corps.

Gilbert also was to be attached to the party, and was to drive one of the cars and take some sort of command.

Even in the three weeks that she had been with the corps, Gypsy had already been dissatisfied with her own position.

They washed in that half-teaspoonful of water to which they had grown accustomed.

Water was very scarce in Fjern, and Gypsy remarks casually, I am so dirty I feel I shall soon walk without legs.

The British field hospital had taken a different view of the situation from the members of the ambulance corps, and had gone south at the sound of the alarm.

The leaders had already once experienced what it meant to wait to the last minute, and knew what it had cost them, and so were determined not to be caught again.

He also continued his service in the Army.

He had numerous reserve and active duty tours over his 30 years of service to all of us, including serving as a senior operations officer for the 300th Field Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, commanding the 322nd General Hospital at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, during his last tour.

He retired at the rank of colonel.

After retirement, Paul and his Miriam moved to Sun City in Bluffton, South Carolina.

The 339th formed the core of the American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, also known as the Polar Bear Expedition.

The 339th was joined by the 1st Battalion of the 310th Engineers, the 337th Field Hospital, and the 337th Ambulance Company.

But while in England, they picked up the influenza, the Spanish flu.

Before they even reached Russia, men were dying aboard the ship.