Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-28 | Page 14 | Medical Officer is Home from France

i DR. CLIFFORD ASHSY. tack home after long service in France with the British, -who escaped ! injury, but whose horse was struck i by a shell fragment. - ! h - 'I I' i lr " l 11 - I ft Jj MEDICAL OFFICER IS HOME FROM FRANCE Captain Clifford Ashby Attached At-tached to British Army Almost Year. Dr. Clifford Ashby. 372 Logan avenue, returned yesterday after almost a year of active service with the British forces in France. Although commissioned first lieutenant in the United States army March li, P.HK, and subsequently promoted to captain, Dr. Ashby was assigned to the British forces immediately on his arrival ih England. 1 le was one of about lijMO American surgeons attached to the British Brit-ish forces, due to shortage of surgeons in Great Britain on account of heavy casualties casu-alties early in the war. Dr. Ashby left Ely. Xev., where he was then in practice, immediately after he was commissioned, attended the army medical school it Washington for a month and arrived at Liverpool on May 7, 1918. He attended the British training school for medical ofiicers at Blackpool and was in a Yorkshire military hospital for a time. He crossed to France on July 26, 101$, and was attached to the Fifty-first Highland division, with which he served until the close of the war. He participated in the operations on the Marne in July and early August, at Douai and Arras, and was with an artillery artil-lery brigade supporting Canadian's at the front on the Mons-Maubeuge line when the armistice was signed. Dr. Ashby escaped es-caped injury, although his horse was struck by a shell fragment in one of the engagements. One of several interesting souvenirs he has is a fragment of a wrecked German airplane showing the identifying black cross intact. Dr. Ashby's family remained in Salt Lake during his absence, and he expects to stay here.