Stretchers: The Story of a Hospital Unit on the Western Front

Pottle, Frederick A

Yale University Press, 1929

[Association Copy: From One of the American doctors who served on the front lines] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover.  366p. Signed by C.W. Hennington. Major Hennington served as a surgeon with American forces Major in WWI at the evacuation hospital Chateau-Thierry and later Base Hospital 19 at Vichy.  He was at the scene of the battle which wiped out the St. Mihiel salient.  His evacuation hospital advanced with allied troops and Major Hennington remained on duty throughout the fighting near the Argonne until the armistice was signed. Includes Hennington's note: "Chapter 9 describes the hospital where I was on duty Sept. to Nov 1918.