The doctor in charge of the evacuation hospital at Crepy spoke of the effect of the Salvation Army girls, not alone upon the wounded, but also upon the medical-surgical staff and the men of the hospital corps who acted as nurses in that advanced position. “Before they came,” he said, “we were overwrought, everyone seemed at the breaking point, what with the nervous tension and danger. But the very sight of women working calmly had a soothing effect on everyone.”
When the drive was over orders came to leave. The following is the official notice to the Salvation Army officers:
G-1 Headquarters, 1st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, July 26, 1918.
Memorandum.
To Directors, Y.M.C.A., Red Cross, Salvation Army Services, 1st Division.
1. This division moves by rail to destination unknown beginning at 6.00 A.M., July 28th. Motor organizations of the Division move overland. Your motorized units will accompany the advanced section of the Division Supply Train, and will form a part of that train.
2. Time of departure and routes to be taken will be announced later.
3. Secretaries attached to units may accompany units, if it is so desired.
By command of Major-General Summerall.
P. E. Peabody,
Captain, Infantry,
G-1