Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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"Septder: 11, 1919 ; vJe now see long sweeps for the well+. I' Sticks
way up In the air like this and the bucket's on a rope below. And
then they push this one up at the bottom and get the
there were many of them. They sort of looked like
to m.
Q. Who got the water? Women or children, mn?
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A. Oh, I guess anybody did. Women did work a lot over tkere. "Rewhed
Verknie-Udinsk--aren't you glad, quite a trip--Where the USA, 27th Ihfan'cry
is located and remained till 2:30 p.m. Met Lieutenant Stbell who is in
charge of the guard at the ridge about eight verst west of Verhie-Udksk.
He remained with us throw dinner and conducted me to the ARC military
hospital for Russian soldiers. " See, our American Red Cmss was taking
care of the Russians as well as -when they could get a place to do it.
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"This was an old deparbment store and was gotten ready in a great emrgency
as a trainload of patients cam in from the west and ope tions had to be
started at once. Capacity over two hundred. Patients on mrg cots. '' Well,
I bade Lieutenant Yeaton and Captain Nash goodbye here. ey got off at
Verbie-Udinsk. "lkt Mrs. Ayres and Ma;r-t l'kcCauslin- they were in rriy
unit--Bucklin and Ebwman, Prohe, Rile, MacIntire. All ere surprised to
see me as no mssage had reached them as to codng. "%d a very hded
conference with Kss l%cIntire~she~s in charge-and le*ed that she has
lots of problems due to the close affiliation of nmes 4th the Anw.
Promised Miss MacIntire that I would return. United States Arqy is moving
to winter quarters at Be~sofslg. Much of the day was sent traveling on
the rim of the wonderful Lake Baikal. The day was quite bloudy but the
beautiful snowcapped mountains were quite visible on the Qpposite side of
the lake. ''
f'Then we followed along the Angara River which leads to Ipkutsk. This river
is wide and has a swin cmnt as do all rivers in Siber&a. The ni&ts
had been especially beautiful because of the full moon. pr. Watts, Lietenant
Osbome and I sat up until almst Irkutsk where we ar)lived about ddnight.
'!Saturday, Septder 13, 1919; Captain Prince cam
that he was in charge of this ARC district, including
Irkutsk. Nursing personnel ljsrilted Irkutsk on advice
and General Graves-now see, that is General Graves--United States
to safety. Lunch In Captain P!rincels car." That was his office, b
and so forth.
Now this is "Sunday, Sept&er_ 14, 1919; Irkutsk. Went over to the ARC
hospital with Mss--well, I've written sorething over it, it looks like Kemp
or somthing like [that]--"Chief nurse. Splendid instktub%on of its kind.
Attended tea. Met mny Czech and British personnel. I
''Monday, September 15, 1919; Irkutsk. Visited Russian
of Miss T@le and Mrs. Hunt in dressing station and lar
Russian hospitals are poor in sanitation and equipment.
linen rrade by nurses, supplies, drugs, and so forth.
little to eat. Some have no beds or even mattresses
on the bare floor huddled up in corners. The dead
front door. They are cmied in open c&s
exposed.