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American Base Hospital No. 57 was an American military hospital formed in Georgia, United States. During the First World War the hospital moved to Paris where a 1,800-bed hospital was set up to deal with war casualties.[1]
History[]
The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, during World War I. At Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the American military set up a Medical Officers Training Camp (MOTC) called Camp Greenleaf. Authorized in May 1917 until it was decommissioned in December 1918, the camp trained 6,640 officers and 31,138 enlisted men.[1]
Among some of the units were the doctors and staff of Base Hospital No. 57.[2] The members of the hospital were organized on April 2, 1918. Most of the men were drafted from Oil City, Pennsylvania.[3] After training they shipped to Camp Merritt, New Jersey where they embarked on the Madingo on July 31, 1918. After stopping briefly in England they boarded the Londonderry and landed in France on August 21, 1918. They moved around France until on September 16, 1918 it was orded to Paris where they took over 1,800 beds in a large school building in Paris.[2] During the offensives of 1918, the hospital had as many as 2,000 patients.[4] From taking over the Paris school in September of 1918 to when the unit left France in August 13, 1919 the hospital unit treated 8,585 surgical and medical cases, and a further 7,292 dental cases.[2][5]
Of the nineteen members of the Siamese Expeditionary Forces who lost their lives during their WWI deployment, eleven died in hospitals. In February of 1919 five of these hospital bound Thai soldiers died at the American Base Hospital No. 57 in Paris.[2] The unit returned to America on August 22, 1919 aboard the Kaiserine Augusta Victoria, and was demobilized soon after.[2][4]
Medical Officers Training Camp, Camp Greenleaf - 1918
Personal[]
Outside American Base Hospital No. 57 in Paris during WWI
Commanding Officer
- Col. Edward C. Mitchell, M. C., April 2, 1918, to August 22, 1919.[6]
Chief of surgical service
Chief of medical service
- LC Theodore L. Boutillier, M. C.[6]
See also[]
- American Hospital of Paris
References[]
Notes
References
- Budreau, Lisa M., DPhil, MA, ed (2008). Answering The Call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A commemorative Tribute to Military Nursing in world War I. Government Publishing Office. ISBN 9780160869365. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c100316447;view=1up;seq=1. - Total pages: 244
- Ford, Colonel Joseph H., MC (1927). The Medical Department of the U.S. Army in the World War, Volume 2. U.S. Government Printing Office. http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/adminamerexp/chapter24.html.
- United States Foundation for the Commemoration of the World Wars (2017). "Camp Greenleaf". worldwar1centennial.org. http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/educate/places/393:camp-greenleaf.html. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- Whyte, Brendan and Suthida (2008). "The Inscriptions on the First World War Volunteers Memorial, Bangkok". Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. 96. http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/2001/JSS_096_0f_Whyte_InscriptionOnWW1VolunteersMemorialBangkok.pdf. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
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