. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. r duties faithfully;stood guard, seeing no prowlers night after night; stood at retreat, fearful lest somecommand should leave us stranded; built barracks which we hoped never to live in; andwent to bed at six P. M. because it was cold and we had nothing better to do. So we existed, feeling more and more uselessevery day. A month brought a little change. Lieut. •Harry E. Anderson, who had been the chief of oldsection 21, came from Paris to organize a new sec-tion from the old volunteer casuals. Section Sani-
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. r duties faithfully;stood guard, seeing no prowlers night after night; stood at retreat, fearful lest somecommand should leave us stranded; built barracks which we hoped never to live in; andwent to bed at six P. M. because it was cold and we had nothing better to do. So we existed, feeling more and more uselessevery day. A month brought a little change. Lieut. •Harry E. Anderson, who had been the chief of oldsection 21, came from Paris to organize a new sec-tion from the old volunteer casuals. Section Sani-taire 647 came into existence officially on November12, and most of the members were added within aweek. We were living now in one of the barrackswhich we had put up. Section 9 kept open housenext to us. On the other side was an empty barrackused occasionally by transients. The Y. M. C. completed the row of official dwellings. Weare not at all partial to the Y. M. C. A., less nowthan then, yet we found the tables for writing andthe occasional entertainments worth [11]
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