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...armies back toward the Aisne as the fighting moved farther and farther away from the city. In October this section was attached to a British Red Cross unit with their base near Neuve Chapelle in Northern France and was later moved to Dunkerque and then to Eleverdingle, near Ypres in Belgium. At this last place the cars did the advanced field work usually done by the horse-drawn ambulances. Open only to members of the Union...
Some of the posters now on exhibition are: "Zeppelin Raids," "At Neuve Chapelle," "Ypres Tower," "Submarine Menace," "Mars Appeals to Vulcan," and "The Remaking of Belgium...
...seems complex, but we often got patients in the hospital in Paris within 12 to 14 hours after they have been hit, even when coming from Arras or the line farther north toward Ypres. On arrival in the hospital patients are at once seen by the receiving officer, who, in our service, was one of the residents, and by him sent either to the ward direct, to have a bath first, or to the operating-room, as each single case demanded. The largest number of admissions to the University Service in any 24 hour period was 33 cases...
...College Office has received word that Lawrence Brokenshire '16, of Cambridge, has been killed by the poisonous effects of a gas bomb while fighting in the trenches near Ypres. Brokenshire left for the war last summer with the 12th Canadian regiment, and has been in the thick of the fighting ever since...
Detailed information may be had from Guy Lowell '92, of Boston. JOHN PAULDING BROWN '14. Ypres, Belgium...