Divisional Medical Officer
Headquarters, January 21, 1916
Georges, Principal Physician of the Second Class, Divisional Medical Officer of the 66th Infantry Division,
to Monsieur le Lieutenant commanding American Sanitary Section No. 3.
I have had the opportunity daily for seven months to see at work the American Automobile Sanitary Section No. 3, which has been at the disposal of the 66th Division for nearly a year past. The Section has had to operate constantly in a district where the roads are particularly bad. It has had on many occasions to work day and night under the greatest possible strain, due to the fact that successive fierce actions have necessitated a large number of removals in a few days.
Under all conditions one and all have done their duty—and more than their duty—with an absolute disregard of danger, with a touching simplicity, with an imperturbable sang-froid equalled only by the absolutely single-hearted zeal with which they have unwearyingly given their assistance.
The death of one driver, killed at his post, the severe wound of another driver received in the course of his service, bear even more eloquent witness than the citations in the orders of the day awarded to the Section and to a large number of its members, to the way in which they have understood their duties and striven to fulfil them.
At the moment when this Section, so ably led by you and by Lieutenant Lovering Hill is about to leave the Division for another field of operation, I have it at heart to offer to you all, in the name of all our wounded and sick, my warmest thanks for the truly admirable way in which you have done your work.