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University Medical Unit After 3 Years' Service on Way Home

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The first University Medical Unit, pioneer of American organizations to take part in the war, started from Liverpool for home yesterday after a period of service covering nearly three years with the British Armies in France. The Unit is headed by Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94 and is composed almost entirely of doctors and nurses from Greater Boston. Their enlisted personnel was assigned from the British forces when the Unit arrived overseas in May, 1915. The Unit established Base Hospital No. 22 at Camler, France, where the members experienced two air raids from German combing planes which, on one occasion, crocked a hospital across the street.

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