Friends of France; . glish and the Belgian Sectors. Just as another winter was setting in and we wereonce more beginning to get hordes of cases of frozenfeet, we were ordered to move again, this time to an-other army. The day before we left, Colonel Moriervisited the Section and, in the name of the Army,thanked the men in glowing terms, not only for thework which they had done, but for the way in whichthey had done it. He recalled the great days of theSecond Battle of the Yser and the Dunkirk bombard-ments and what the Americans had done; how he hadalways felt sure that he could depend upon th
Friends of France; . glish and the Belgian Sectors. Just as another winter was setting in and we wereonce more beginning to get hordes of cases of frozenfeet, we were ordered to move again, this time to an-other army. The day before we left, Colonel Moriervisited the Section and, in the name of the Army,thanked the men in glowing terms, not only for thework which they had done, but for the way in whichthey had done it. He recalled the great days of theSecond Battle of the Yser and the Dunkirk bombard-ments and what the Americans had done; how he hadalways felt sure that he could depend upon them, andhow they had always been ready for any service how- 129 FRIENDS OF FRANCE ever arduous or dull or dangerous it might be. Heexpressed officially and personally his regret at ourdeparture. We left on a day that was typical and reminiscentof hundreds of other days we had spent in was raining when our convoy began to stretch it-self out along the road and it drizzled all that day. Joshua G. B. Campbell. IX THE BEGINNINGS OF A NEW SECTION The night before we were to leave we gave a dinner tothe officers of the Ambulance. There were not manyspeeches, but we were reminded that we were incharge of one of the best-equipped Sections whichhad as yet taken the field, and that we were going tothe front in an auxiliary capacity to take the placeof Frenchmen needed for the sterner work of thetrenches. We might be sent immediately to the frontor kept for a while in the rear; but in any eventthere were sick and wounded to be carried and our jobwas to help by obeying orders. Early the next morning we ran through the Bois-de-Boulogne and over an historic route to Versailles,where, at the headquarters of the Army Automo-bile Service, our cars were numbered with a militaryserial and the driver of each was given a Livret Matri-cule, which is an open sesame to every motor parkin France. Those details were completed about tenoclock, and we felt at last as if we were French sol-diers
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