. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . land May 6, 1917, arrivedat Liverpool May 20, and in France a few dayslater. The Lakeside L^nit was the first Ameri-can Hospital to go across, and their base hospi-tal was located at Rouen, France. Later inthe year 1917 a number of nurses were selectedfrom the various American hospitals and sentto the front. Miss McKee being one of thosechosen. On December 28, 1917, Field Marshal Haig,British Commander in Chief, submitted a listof about twenty American nurses serving onthe Western Front, deserving of special mentionon accoimt of taking care of the woun
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . land May 6, 1917, arrivedat Liverpool May 20, and in France a few dayslater. The Lakeside L^nit was the first Ameri-can Hospital to go across, and their base hospi-tal was located at Rouen, France. Later inthe year 1917 a number of nurses were selectedfrom the various American hospitals and sentto the front. Miss McKee being one of thosechosen. On December 28, 1917, Field Marshal Haig,British Commander in Chief, submitted a listof about twenty American nurses serving onthe Western Front, deserving of special mentionon accoimt of taking care of the wounded underfire. One of them was ^liss ^IcKee, and atthe close of the war, she was decorated by thePrince of Wales with the British Royal Red Cross. During Aliss McKees stay on the WesternFront, the sleeping quarters of the unit withwhich she was connected, were blowTi up byGerman air saiders, but she fortunately escapedinjury on account of being on duty at the timeof the raid. However, she lost most of herclothing and personal Miss Inez McKeeDaughter of Agent and Yardmaster R. E. McKee,Sandusky, Ohio 90 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE Since her return to the States, she has justrecently become Mrs. C. S. Schoepfle, and nowresides in Ann Arbor, Mich. Newark Freight Station Chester Dickerson, former yard clerk, hasaccepted a position with the Westinghouse,Church & Kerr Co., who are in charge of theconstruction of the new addition to the Amer-ican Rolling Mill Co. Harry Leonard, formerly with the Zanesville& Western Railway Co., has accepted a positionas bill clerk in our Freight office. A. C. Richards, chief clerk, had a narrowescape one evening recently about six oclockwhen he decided to take a short cut iiome. Hestared across the ice, but received a cold Turk-ish bath about twenty-five feet from now thinks the longest way round is thesweetest way home. Orville Howser, Esq., demurrage clerk,invites you all to make a visit to his new man-sion which w
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