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Cared for U. S. Wounded In Tennis CourtTentsr*Caring for wounded Americans in tents pitched on the tennis courts of a French chateau, is the experience of Roscob Fromm, former office assistant at the Y. M. C. A. Fromm is the son of Joseph A. Fromm, 123 Main Street, Fromm left hore on March 26 of last year and is now with the array; of occupation at Coblenz.Coblenz, Germany, January 24, 1919.Dear Sir:Received your letter somo time ago, hut have not had the opportunity to write you until now.When 1 think of everything that lias happened during the eleven months I have lieeu in the avrny I can hardly, realize that so much could be crowded into such a short space of lime.First came our trip to the trainingcamp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.. Herowe received four months’ training in anatomy, first aid, hospital work, and drilling. Our next move took us to Camp Jackson, S. C. Wc spent a month in hospital work hore. Wc were all very glad to leave tills placegive the. machine ahead a good jolt, too, by not slowing down in time. We were pretty lucky on our trip, though, only one trutk went into the ditch and our machine only bumped the car ahead two times. Our ride with all! its diawbacks hail its redeeming features, for we passed through many! little villages and saw quite a bit of rural France. On arriving at Villers Daucourt we pitched our tents in a thick woods so that the German airmen could, notr see us so well. Wc stayed here just about two weeks and it was well we moved when we did for the Germans bombed this woods | just one day after we had gono.Lcs Islettes was our next stop. We| moved into a beautiful estate here.i The owner of the chateau was in-Paris at the time of our arrival, but) hp was notified that wc were to occupy the place. The caretaker of! this place told us thal tho Germans had been in possession of tliiB place for a while and they paid him two cents a day lor his labor. I often wondered what the owner of tlic place thought when he saw our operating!were all very gliul lo leave tius pmcc ,___.____*. _for Newport News, as our tents were »«t p.tehed on pitched right in the sand and theweather was a little too .warm for us too.July 26, wc sailed from Newport News for, well wc didn’t exactly know where. They did not inform us of our destination, so there were many wijd guesses, but most of the guesses favored France and our arrival at Brest August 6 ended all. speculation and proved that most of us were right-After a short 'rest at Brestwe boarded tho train for Tout. This ride consumed six days. It-was myoperations, here as we received many seriously wounded cases. Wc were I receiving the wounded from Argonne Forest here 3nd we. surely worked| hard.Varennes was our next and . last | slop in France. Here the mud surely was deep. We wore hip boots most I of the time during our stay here. .The buildings at this place certainly bore .evidence .of .the heavy shell fire] we .'had heard just a week before. While hero we took quite a few.walks Ifirst ride onand by the time we arrived at Toul,I was hoping it would lie ..my-last', like to have gone on up to'Paris but freight yards for a day. ■ Would like to have gone on u pto Paris but this was not allowed; We had the satisfaction of seeing the Eiffel Tower, anyway, oven if.il was from a distance. :Fritz came over on an air raid our very first night at Toul. He dropped a couple of bombs but they landed a little distance awaynear.a railroad. Wc had our first taste of real army field work at Toul. I worked, in thereceiving ward Lore; taking-data-andwriting up personal history, of each patient brought in. Also helped the boys get out of their mud-spattered and blood-stained clothes. A great many times we bad to cut tho clothes tu pieces su as not to cause the boys any more pain than was necessary. Wc received quite a few • German prisoners here, too, and acquired souvenirs from them.Our next move was from 'foul to Villers Daucourt. We did ouv traveling in French trucks this time. We learned quite a few things about this mode of transportation before • wc ■arrived at Villers Daucourt. These French drivers seem to be a little bit careless when at tho steering gear. It seems to be difficult for them to keep oji the read and at times theyGOAL OUST LODGED IN MINER’S LONGSMr. Bunn tells how his cough was conquered and health • restored.I contracted a bad cuuuh in Novcm-bar, 1916. 1 «a3 workiug in a coal raino and the doctor# said the coaJ duat bad settled in juy lungs. I Wept getting woroe, couldn't lie down on my right side, coughed .90.1 couldn’t sleep and had constant pain iu my righ.C lunc and under niy shoulderbladc3. 1 coughed so hard the blood would Bpurl out of my no«c. I soon lost 30 pounds. Finally llir dfiriurn had n;e change climate and i went to llic Cumberland Mountain* and lived out doors,' but didn’t improve.“Thru T rnnir'buck homa and started'on Milk a Emulsion. Yhnnk God 1 did, 8S .it- did me a lot of good right from the start. loosening up the coal, dust that had filled my rigid lung. In ft few weeks my lungs were free Vram raal dust. I could sleep at night like a baby, had an excellent appetite and m.v cough left me entirely. I gained back 30 pounds in weight and went back to work in themines completely restored to health. I aju workio every day and feel as good as 1 ever did in niy fife.”—G. IT. Bunn, fith Ave. No. 13th St., Tcrrc Haute, Ind. ' -Thousands of victims oi dust filled air. in mines and factories, develop the aajnc trouble that Mr. Bunn had. Milks Emu I skin cost# nothing to try.. #o whynot nl least try it? It is certain lo be\V€s made it a.^ule to take some new 1 direction- every time we went' for a walk. One day was spent visiting Dead Mao’s' Hill. The Germans had many dugouts here. . The officers' quarters bad stoves, electric lights, telephones, etc.,-in them. The Crown Prince had quarters on tho other side of town. Here the Germans had. a regular .theater and movie show. The quarters of the Grown Prince were lined with marble. The other officers' dugouts had paper on the walls.Our next move took us to Germany Wo had been • expecting to leave Varennes, hut did hot know exactly] ‘when, so wbcri ’the' order came for ' all aboard wo sure were glad. Wc traveled in box cars this time. There were forty-five of us in each car besides our baggage so you must know we were short on space. Our route this time was up tkrougk Vcrduu. Here we saw large giin emplacements uud tho biggest shell holes we had seen. The buildings—well, we didn’t see them. After being in our box cars for twelve days wc finally reached our destination—Coblenz. Wo remained in the ears two days after our arrival' here. One day. -wc receive*! the order to move up to the hospital and we were very glad to leave those sidc-door Pullmans. In our new barracks wc found real beds with springs and mattresses, the nearest like home we had had. You can imagine how well wo like lo roll out in the morning.This hospital was formerly, conducted by two Catholic brothers. The building and everything in it is very up-to-date. We arc very busy here taking care of the sick from the Third Army which is stationed • in Coblenz..Coblenz is a very nice town and is located at the junction of the Rhine and Mosel rivers. The streets are very narrow and in some places you have to be very careful, even when on the sidewalk, so as not to be hit by the street cars. _The movies arc not as good as ours, but tho music is always good. Everyone keeps his hat on in a German movie unless requested to remove it by someone in the rear who doesn’t care to sec a display of headgear. The price of udmissioo Is two marks.The store keepers here certainly arc doing lots of busiucss us every store is crowded with soldiers buying something to send homo.I don’t know when we will get home, but everyone of us will welcome that most happy day when- wc set sail for our promised land, the good old U. S. A.Yours very truly, • ROSCOE FROMM.p help, and it mnv do as __ u Ju r.._ *i. 'u..nnilliich for you
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Hamilton Daily Republican News
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1919
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