Word: regional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...During our three months' term of service about 8,000 men passed through our hands, and of this number only 19 died under our care. Practically all the sick and wounded during this period came from the region of the Somme and, before reaching us, had been passed through the Field Ambulance Service and the Casualty Clearing Stations, the latter situated from three to five miles behind the actual fighting...
...more intensely interesting region than Picardy for the three months before the present offensive could scarcely be found. For that entire period we saw day by day, step by step, the preparations made on a greater scale than ever before. Our headquarters were some 20 miles from Amiens, on the national highway leading to Peronne, directly behind the sector of lines where the French troops have brought the heaviest pressure to bear...
...When we first came to this region the French had barely began their preparations. There were no reserve trenches worthy of the name, practically no rail communications within 15 miles of the front, no guns or ammunition to speak of. Then there were unfolded before us the methods of a great army preparing for a great offensive. Five miles back of the lines there was made a wonderfully constructed set of reserve trenches, protected by far-reaching mazes of barbed wire. Still farther back was a repetition of this first reserve set, not so complete in detail, but still ready...
...zone. This canvass will last all week, and is in charge of a committee of undergraduates. The amount thus collected will be forwarded to the National Jewish War Relief Committee as the University's contribution to the general fund. The condition of the Jews in the war region warrants liberal donations by everyone for this fund...
Last year's party consisted of fourteen men who, during the first three weeks of their work, made a geological survey of an area of nearly 200 square miles. They were organized as a Government party, working in an unsurveyed region...