The Vanguard : First in France (May 1918)

The Vanguard : First in France (May 1918)

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

Horrax, Gilbert, 1887-1957.

World War, 1914-1918.

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.

Boston Medical Library pamphlet collection.

1918-05.

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1 printed pamphlet.

English.

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P. 2951.

From the Collections of the Boston Medical Library.