TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT NOVEMBER 7, 1918 P. 1
Dear Mother:
We are all packed up---our baggage is gone and we leave early in the morning. We have been here since Tuesday afternoon and have been busy getting ready to cross.
Before leaving Camp Custer we submerged in the epidemic of influenza and certainly worked hard. They gave me supervision of eight wards, about 400 patients, and I was busy of course. We had plenty of help tho. Volunteer nurses from civil life and all the doctors in camp came up to the base hospital. I am very grateful for what I learned at Camp Pike and I felt very much at home in such an enormous number of cases of pneumonia.
Edna has gone back to Beatrice, Neb., and will do some nursing this winter. I expect a good winter in France and hope to return by Christmas, 1919, sure.
With much love,
Ray.
NOTES: Ray Sherwood was writing to his mother Mrs. M. Sherwood from Camp Merritt, NJ
TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUE HOWARD
Dear Mother:
We are all packed up---our baggage is gone and we leave early in the morning. We have been here since Tuesday afternoon and have been busy getting ready to cross.
Before leaving Camp Custer we submerged in the epidemic of influenza and certainly worked hard. They gave me supervision of eight wards, about 400 patients, and I was busy of course. We had plenty of help tho. Volunteer nurses from civil life and all the doctors in camp came up to the base hospital. I am very grateful for what I learned at Camp Pike and I felt very much at home in such an enormous number of cases of pneumonia.
Edna has gone back to Beatrice, Neb., and will do some nursing this winter. I expect a good winter in France and hope to return by Christmas, 1919, sure.
With much love,
Ray.
NOTES: Ray Sherwood was writing to his mother Mrs. M. Sherwood from Camp Merritt, NJ
TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUE HOWARD