Base Hospital No9, : a history of the work of the New York hospital unit during two years of active service . eon—in fact the one who taughtthem on the Island—brought a patient into the operat-ing room on a Htter and had the orderlies there makethe transfer to the table in due and true military fashion. 32 THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL IN FRANCE Anyway squads east and right oblique were done everymorning until Coke Williamson looked like a WestPoint graduate. Those were the days of good-byes and best night the thought would be this is the lastnight home and the best use was always ma
Base Hospital No9, : a history of the work of the New York hospital unit during two years of active service . eon—in fact the one who taughtthem on the Island—brought a patient into the operat-ing room on a Htter and had the orderlies there makethe transfer to the table in due and true military fashion. 32 THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL IN FRANCE Anyway squads east and right oblique were done everymorning until Coke Williamson looked like a WestPoint graduate. Those were the days of good-byes and best night the thought would be this is the lastnight home and the best use was always made ofit. Then in the morning came the heart-aches and thepartings. The next evening the hero would returnhome and go through the same emotional process. Onemorning the Unit nearly sailed and the relatives weretold about it that night. However, orders finally cameand very early on the morning of August 7th, 1917, theofficers and men left Governors Island on a barge. Thenurses went aboard at Ellis Island; the entire Unit wentto Pier II, North River, where the U. S. C. T. Finlandwas ready to sail for 33 CHAPTER III. What Happened on the Finland. It was a strange looking crowd that went aboardthe Finland that day. The men were weighted downunder their equipment and blanket rolls, and fairlystaggered up the gang-plank. Soon all the troops andthe baggage were aboard and at one oclock the shipleft the pier. We soon found that a regiment of the1st Engineers under the command of Col. MasonPatrick and U. S. A. Base Hospital No. 8 under thecommand of Major Siler, were to be our travehng com-panions. All were ordered below decks so that spyingenemy eyes would think that this steamer was goingto Europe empty. As most of the crowd had break-fasted—better termed messed—at theywere ready for dinner. This came within the courseof the next few hours. At , the ship passedQuarantine and soon dropped anchor. Then DameRumor had it that we should he there for at least t
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