. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. eacher and his wife, who were always solicitous over our comfort and for any menwho were ill. Somewhere behind us, on up the hill, lived little old Roland, a queer,jolly Frenchman, fond of talking with the boys, and comical in his attempts to amuse village had lost few of its people by reason of a fear of the Germans. The enemyhad not reached the town in 1914 and failed to molest since. The mayor was the rep-resentative head of the towns best family. There was little question of that. We foundhim and
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. eacher and his wife, who were always solicitous over our comfort and for any menwho were ill. Somewhere behind us, on up the hill, lived little old Roland, a queer,jolly Frenchman, fond of talking with the boys, and comical in his attempts to amuse village had lost few of its people by reason of a fear of the Germans. The enemyhad not reached the town in 1914 and failed to molest since. The mayor was the rep-resentative head of the towns best family. There was little question of that. We foundhim and his family, particularly one daughter, worth cultivating. It was at this timethat Signor and Snader formed the yet unbroken habit of doing our camionette exonerate Henry but suspect that Horn found something besides the pleasure oftalking to a pleasant young woman to draw him almost daily to the mayors cafe. The front was so quiet during all of May that we found time to continue thebaseball begun at Neufchateau. The French game of soccer, played in the old service, [31]. BeaumontAnsauvilleBeaumont The QuarryAnsauville also had many converts and we developed a first class team under the tutelage of Snaderand Luykx. We were now a unit. Little causes of friction had been subordinated to ourfront work. The change had taken place which did more than anything else to weld usinto a group capable of using its greatest ability for service. The transfer of Lieuten-ant Anderson to take charge of an automobile park sent us Lieutenant Leroy M. Smithin his place. Lieutenant Smith proved to be the right man to command the section. Wewere old volunteers and still of the volunteer spirit. While an old army man, Lieuten-ant Smith recognized our individualism and utilized it to obtain more efficient servicefrom the section, given with a better spirit, than ever before. We appreciated the attitudeof our new Lieutenant at Lagney, and we appreciate it even more so to-day. Togetherwe have
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