| Show UTAH HOSPITAL HOSPITAL- UNIT PRESENTS PRESENT'S HONOR AM LAIM Capt Roberts Organization Denies Artillerymen Monopolize Mon i 10 1 Credit Protest from G G. G F. F Roberts captain caplain and commanding commanding- officer of the tho i th I Field hospital formerly the tho Utah Field Fl ld hospital now stationed at Mars larB la In laTour laTour Tour France has been received i e b by Gov Go Simon Bamberger obi objecting strenuously to tu a a statement that appeared ap up- in a of tho the l local cal press nt at the time that the Fl Field lcJ artillery artillery artil artil- lery returned home Captain Roberts declared that tIm the account that the Field artillery was tho the only or organization or- or I that carried Utah's state flag to France Francc c was false The body of tho the letter to tho states state's chief chiet executive tie tive follows In a news item Hem appearing In ono one of or orthe the Salt Lake Loke papers for January 2 25 5 1915 there appeared an article on the tha return home of oC the boys boya of the thc 14 th First Utah artillery The boys of one of oC your our other othor Utah organizations org are all aU happy to V kno that the boys of ot the Field artillery wore were In such a location In the tho S S. S O O. S S. that they were able to bc returned to their mothers mother moth moth- er ers era wives and sweethearts t before man many other Utah members of the American expeditionary nor forces In France S Worked d in Enemy Lands In rn behalf of the thc boys of this organization organization or or- which Is the Field hospital company compan and which loft left the tho State of Utah as the First Utah Field hospital company and and assuming that tho the people of ot Utah really rally know that they have ha a fi field ld hospital company in France I wish to prot protest the tIme statement in In Ip regards ards to the Field artillery namely It was the only organization which carried Utah's state flag to France This organization or left Utah as a Utah organization tho the same sarno as did the Utah Field artillery It welt t to France under an as assumed umed namo name the same as the Utah FI Field ld artillery did It Worked In France In enemy territory as did not tho the Utah 1 artillery It is in reality the only orly Utah organization as asan asan I an organization which did ld reach and did operate in enemy territory It Is Isnow Isnow isnow now and has been since November 18 1918 stationed at Mars le Ie Tour ot et Moselle France taking care of or United States troops and returning prisoners of war Not After Afler Unearned We have read and borne with what we feel exceptionally good bood grace raCo tho the manner In which the toe pu publicity agents of Utah have forgotten org that they really had bad another soldier org one without show how but ever doing Its bit ii h the advance section o of th the American one of occupation In him France The Time bo boys s 's of tho the Field hospital hospi hospi- tal company First t Utah Field hospital arc not looking In for unearned honors or praise They Tho know what tho they have done dono and aro arc willing villing that their record of or efficiency stand as their dation So sir fOI for the tIme sake of too tho Utah boys bore In this Utah or I hope sir that you Oll will be able to make some correction to this statement above quoted and that the Utah people real real- ize 1713 that the they still have have- havea a soldier or organization or- or In France which is working J night and da day In caring for fOI tho sick lck and and- wounded of the American arm army ai I am am In sir sh yours in service I G F. F nO ROBERTS ROBERTS' ERTs' ERTs Captain Commanding |
