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Because the village was under direct enemy observation and was shelled frequently, patients had to be evacuated at night, when ambulances could travel the road from Beaumont.

Evacuation to the regimental aid stations often required that patients be carried a kilometer or more through trenches which often were knee deep in mud and water.

The aid stations at Beaumont and Bouconville were in basements of partially destroyed buildings and were made provided additional protection from indirect fire using logs, sandbags, and stone.

It was on the axial road and occupied a building whose walls had been protected by thick sandbags, but occasionally when receiving indirect fire it utilized a dugout which it had constructed nearby.

The front circuit was maintained by Ford ambulances working forward from Mandres and returning to deliver patients to the dressing station there.

Pertaining to it were emergency ambulances stationed at Beaumont, Rambucourt, and Bouconville, and at times at Seicheprey, with reserve at Mandres.

The rear circuit of heavy G. M. C. ambulances began at Mandres, where patients were carried to a fixed evacuation hospital.

In order to cut down transportation, patients who could stand the longer trip to Toul or to Sebastopol were sent directly from Mandres and were not required to stop at the triage at Menil-la-Tour.

[9] In quiet times a routine circuit of ambulances was maintained, daily calls being made at all aid stations within the division area that could be reached for the collection of sick and slightly wounded to be triaged at Menil-la-Tour, allowing placement of ambulances posted at outlying aid stations for emergency use.

The location was poorly suited for a hospital because of its proximity to a large supply dump and railhead subject to indirect fire.

Several attacks occurred and missiles impacted within a hundred yards of the hospital, but no artillery fire was ever received.

[10] Field Hospital 12, after being held in reserve, became operational on 23 January at Sebastopol in large, permanent, stone barracks.

More than two-thirds of those cases were minor, and most of the patients were returned to duty in a short time directly from the field hospitals.

Sporadic cases of cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, mumps, and measles occurred, but no epidemic developed.

The lack of complete cooperation among the Allies on the Western Front had been appreciated, and the question of preparation to meet the crisis had already received attention of the supreme war council.

Reserves were not available and on 28 March, the 1st Division was placed at the disposal of the allied high command, starting movement toward the battle front on 17 April.

On the 28th the 1st Division made the first sustained American offensive of the war and captured the village of Cantigny—a date later chosen by the 1st Medical Regiment as its Organization Day.

[15] The 1st Sanitary Train arrived at the port of Hoboken, New Jersey, on 5 September 1919 on the troopship USS DeKalb after nine months of occupation duty near Koblenz, Germany.

It was temporarily posted to Camp George G. Meade, Maryland, where emergency period personnel were discharged from the service.

Students worked problems involving terrain exercises, while the 1st Medical Regiment then demonstrated the approved school solution.

[17] In January and February 1937, the Ohio and Mississippi rivers flooded over 12,700 square miles in twelve states.

Inspecting a school building which had been used as an improvised hospital for the prior week by local volunteers, he found it an excellent facility with a modern structure, indoor plumbing, and a cafeteria.

Moving his soldiers into rooms on the top floor, he quickly established hospital operations, reorganizing what he found on arrival was an "appalling lack of organization."

[18] Once that hospital was up and running, the company assumed responsibility for a typhoid inoculation station, then repaired and reorganized a second school which was being used as a segregated facility for black patients.

Much as they had done at Carlisle Barracks decades earlier, the 1st Medical Group's units at Fort Sam Houston, including a MUST equipped combat support hospital and an air ambulance company, provided a readily available platform for testing equipment under field conditions.

The staff of Aesculapius and the maroon cross, symbolize the medical arts and allude to the mission of the Brigade.

The red numeral "1" on an olive drab shield is the shoulder sleeve insignia of the 1st Division as authorized 31 October 1918, and with which the unit served in World War I.

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