Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-07 | Page 14 | Utah Field Hospital Men Discharged

UTAH FIELD HOSPITAL ffffJISClGED California Members Sent to Presidio for Early Demobilization. I The Utah members of the lo?th field , hospital, formed Into a casual company to Insure thetr release from service that i they might arrive home In time to enjoy en-joy the fourth of July, were demobilized. ; at Fort D. A. Russell, near Cheyenne, , Wyo.. a nd reached Salt Lake Thursday. : There were fifty in the Utah contingent. Dr. George F. Roberta, commanding oifl-1 oifl-1 cer. made this fetatement last night, clearing clear-ing up the location of the unit, which has caused search of army records the past week In response to inquiries from relatives and friends of the men. The members of the 159th field hospital, hos-pital, aside from the f! fty Utahns, are mostly Californtans. They went on through to the Presidio at San Francisco Fran-cisco in charge of First Sergeant Joseph Jo-seph Williams of Salt Lake. Quartermaster-Sergeant Patrick D. Pal ton of Salt Lake and Corporal Edward BalLan-tyne BalLan-tyne of St. Anthony, company clerk; also went to the Presidio to turn over the records of the organization to the commandant com-mandant of the Western department. The 159th field hospital and the 169th ambulance company, together with the 137th and l.'-Sth field hospitals and their ainbdlance companies, a total of six outfits, out-fits, constituted the HMh sanitary train organized In the Western department. This entire organisation left Marseilles June 7, arrived at Hoboken June 22, remained re-mained at Camp Merritt three days. Then the Utah casual company was organized or-ganized and sent toFort Russell for demobilization.