. Lansdowne school and the world war. zal, about two miles from the Pacific. He says,My one thought, like that of all the boys, was to get to France, butafter many futile attempts to get away, I gave it up. The only w^ay toget away from there was to die, go insane, or wait a chance to take acompetitive examination that would entitle one to go to an officers train-ing school in the States. This I did and was fortunate enough to getback in late October, 1918. From there I resigned to go to a replace-ment regiment, but never got overseas. While at Panama I was in theMedical Department for a while
. Lansdowne school and the world war. zal, about two miles from the Pacific. He says,My one thought, like that of all the boys, was to get to France, butafter many futile attempts to get away, I gave it up. The only w^ay toget away from there was to die, go insane, or wait a chance to take acompetitive examination that would entitle one to go to an officers train-ing school in the States. This I did and was fortunate enough to getback in late October, 1918. From there I resigned to go to a replace-ment regiment, but never got overseas. While at Panama I was in theMedical Department for a while as post pharmacist and for a few monthsas ambulance driver. About the only exciting thing that happened waswhen I had the good fortune to be attached to a part of the 12th Cavalryas a first-aid man. In that capacity we completely crossed the Isthmuson horseback. I believe it was the first time this had been done. Fromthe first of September until I received my discharge, March 20, 1919, Iserved in the Infantry at Camp Gordon, Ga. 244. Guy Kendig Fackler enlisted September 5, 1918. He wasin training at the N. C. 0. School, Medical Department, CampGreenleaf, Georgia, from October 1, 1918 until January 7, 1919.(unassigned). He was then transferred to Camp Stuart, New-port News, Va., to Hospital Train No. 3 as sergeant of hospital train worked as a separate detachment under theSurgeon of the Port of Debarkation, Medical Department at New-port News, transporting sick and wounded enroute from thedebarkation hospital to various camps throughout the UnitedStates. He was discharged July 5, 1919. 245
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