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United States Army Base Hospital No. 11


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ase Hospital No. 11 was organized in July, 1916, by the St. Mary's, St. Joseph's, and Augustana Hospitals, Chicago, Ill. The unit was mobilized March 4, 1918 and transferred to Camp Dodge, Iowa on April 2. After 11 weeks of training at Camp Dodge it proceeded on June 18 to Camp Mills, NY. On June 28 it sailed on the Matagama from Hoboken, NJ arriving in Liverpool on June 10 and Cherbourg on July 12. From Cherbourg, the unit proceeded by train to Nantes, Department Loire Inferieure, base section No. 1, arriving July 16. Base Hospital No. 11 became a type A, 1,000-bed hospital, with crisis expansion to 2,500. It cared for 2,012 medical and 3,890 surgical cases with the largest number of patients, 2,386, on October 15. Base Hospital No. 11 was relieved by Evacuation Hospital No. 28, on January 14, 1919, sailing from St. Nazaire April 13, on the Rijndam. It arrived at Newport News, VA., April 25, and was demobilized at Camp Grant, Ill., April 29, 1919 (Adapted from: Ford, 1927, p. 638).

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Chief of Surgical Service
Maj. R. C. Flannery, M. C.
Relief
Evacuation Hospital No. 28
Founded by
Augustana Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Chief Nurse
Julia Otteson Flikke, A. N. C.
Founded by
St. Mary's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Commanding Officer
Col. F. O. McFarland, M. C.
Founded by
St. Joseph's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Chief of Surgical Service
Lieut. Col. Nelson M. C.
Commanding Officer
Capt. I. R. Schmidt, M. C.

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