Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-11-15 | Page 13 | Officer is Proud of His Company

CAPTAIN HUGH B. Sr'RAGUE of ambulance company No. 34J,- now' in Prance. ' " 1111 s vVr.W j! OFFICER IS PROUD OF HJSCOMPANY Men are Well Cared For, but HaTve Few Clothes, He Writes. "Our boys are wonders, and I am proud of every one of them." was the expreesion of Captain Hugh R. Sprague of the medical corpe with the Three Hundred Eleventh aanltary train In active service In France, in a leller lu Ills wife. (s plain f'preane Is In an evacuation hoeital at the front. "We are well housed and have good mess, but few clothes, a we loet one set of them on account of 'cooties.' " Captain Sprsgue relates In his letter let-ter that he In one dsy dressed the wounds of about fifty Germans, with whom he talked with the aid of an interpreter, end all were glad ,to be captured. They were surprised when they ssw the Americans esting white bread, as thev had been without It so long, he writes. Csptsin Sprsgue organized ambulance ambu-lance unit No. 27 In September. 117. made up of Salt Iake boys. They were trained at -Camp Grant, III., and IWt lest August for oversees service. They have leen up to the front severs! sev-ers! tlmee elnce. The overseas ambulance company Is No. Hi. At the time the letter was written. October 16, Csptaln Rprague was looking for early peace.