MISS MAB LE LUSK BACK - 1919

LUSK

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 3/18/2006 at 22:18:35

Mt. Pleasant News 4/16/1919

MISS MABLE LUSK BACK

Army Nurse Arrived Here After Year Amid War’s Horrors

Miss Mabel Lusk arrived in town Wednesday from Ottumwa for a visit with her father, Mr. James Lusk of South Jefferson Street. Quite a number of friends and acquaintances were at the train to meet her. She is just back from France where, for over a year, she has been an army nurse attached to Unit “R”, base hospital 32 at Contrexville, France. The nurses left the unit at Contrexville and have been home now several weeks.

Miss Lusk wears the regulation uniform of an army nurse, blue serge jacket suit with the insignia of “U.S.” on the lapel of the jacket, also the marks of the medical department on the left shoulder, the division marker and on her left arm, two gold service chevrons.

Words would utterly fail to tell of the depths of suffering and misery which she has seen among the thousands of wounded and sick which passed through the hospital to which she was on active service for over a year. She will be here for a week, when she will return to her work as a trained nurse.