The Vanguard : First in France

The Vanguard : First in France

Harvard U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 5.

World War, 1914-1918.

Medicine, Military.

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.

Horrax, Gilbert, 1887-1957.

A monthly newsletter from the personnel of Base Hospital No. 5--the first publication from the American Expeditionary Forces--began to appear in November 1917. The issue displayed commemorates a year's anniversary since the departure for France and includes the poem "Lines Written One Year after Leaving America," by Captain Gilbert Horrax from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital staff. Horrax, a neurologist, later married Geraldine K. Martin, who served in the American Ambulance Hospital Unit.

The Vanguard, first in France. [Boulogne] Base Hospital 5, U.S. Army.

1918-05

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1 pamphlet.

English.

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P. 2951.

From the Collections of the Boston Medical Library.