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Photograph of the Officers of U.S.A. Base Hospital No. 5 (Harvard Medical School Unit), taken at Fort Totten, N.Y., May 10, 1917.
Taken on the day before departure for Europe, the photograph shows Drs. Harvey Cushing and Roger I. Lee flanking Major Robert U. Patterson, the commanding officer, in the center of the front row.
Letter from Robert I. Lee to Ella Lowell from Base Hospital No. 5, January 24, 1918.
Professor of Hygiene at Harvard, Roger I. Lee was a member of the Surgical Unit in 1915. He was a Major in the Medical Reserve Corps at the United States' entry into the war. Assigned to Base Hospital No. 5, Lee was its officer in command through…