. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. ved during the first days of the attack in the lofts of different buildingsin Passavant. Part of the men were in the attic room of a house, part in the loft of abarn, and the rest in a shed room over another little room in which we had set up our sec-tion bureau. A few cars went to nearby towns where troops were billeted to carry inany sick. Most of the men had little to do except loaf on K P., and write long, overdueletters. We lost Cecilia, the goat, from our midst while here but shed no tears at her de-pa
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. ved during the first days of the attack in the lofts of different buildingsin Passavant. Part of the men were in the attic room of a house, part in the loft of abarn, and the rest in a shed room over another little room in which we had set up our sec-tion bureau. A few cars went to nearby towns where troops were billeted to carry inany sick. Most of the men had little to do except loaf on K P., and write long, overdueletters. We lost Cecilia, the goat, from our midst while here but shed no tears at her de-parture. She had become too fond of waking us with her bleatings at night to enhanceher popularity with the majority. There was a very fortunate addition to the section in Sergeant George S. Jack-son, who filled the vacancy caused by the transfer of Sergeant Klein several months be-fore. Sergeant Jackson was an old Norton-Harjes man and was known to several of themen. He was a hard worker and assisted considerably in the difficult task which ourArgonne activities necessarily Noon Meal near Void [45] We received our orders to move forward on the 4th of October. The 92nd Divi-sion succeeded the 82nd in the town billets and we packed up for the new field of was a little difficulty just before we left as the new division appeared about toappropriate our occupied billets. Bloodshed was missed by a little diplomacy and weslept the last night in our home of the past ten days. It was but a short run to ournew billet, a tent pitched beyond Neuvilly, in a region which was known only to ad-vanced posts before the advance of the week before. It marked the entrance upon ourlast front activity. It was to be the toughest proposition we had yet tackled, and wewere to come out of the tas-k sure of ourselves and of the strength of our section. [46] CHAPTER VTHE ARGONNE
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