1918 – A letter from an overweight, overtired, and, especially, overworked but dedicated medic who managed a ward in an overcrowded base hospital near Nantes, France
Base Hospital #38 near Nantes, France: 1918. This four-page letter from J. K. Leister of Base Hospital #38 near Nantes, France to his mother back home in Pottstown, Pennsylvania is dated 17 August 1918. It is enclosed in its original mailing envelope and bears a manuscript “Soldiers Mail” annotation along..... More