hey did not get away, were run
into the Dvina River. The few trucks that did remain behind were in
wretched condition. The British turned over two Seabrook trucks to us.
We made all repairs and furnished our own drivers. In addition to these
two trucks, the battalion supply officer secured five more, four
independently. The owners were willing to give them to us, without cost,
in order to forestall their being requisitioned by the Russian Motor
Battalion. The condition of these trucks was poor. During the
construction of the "Michigan" Barracks, the transportation was so
inadequate that we were compelled to run both night and day. Through our
control of the Makaroff sawmill, we had two tug-boats belonging to the
mill, but it was only rarely that we could use them for other purposes.

It was a fine record our comrades, the engineers, made in the
expedition. As the ribald old marching song goes:

"Oh, the infantry, the infantry, with dirt behind their ears,
The infantry, the infantry, that drink their weight in beers,
Artillery, the cavalry, the doggoned engineers,
They could never lick the infantry in a hundred thousand years."

But just the same the doughboy was proud to see the 310th Engineers
cited as a unit by General Ironside who called the 310th Engineers the
best unit, bar none, that he had ever seen soldier in any land. He knows
that without the sturdy and resourceful engineer boys with him in North
Russia the defense against the Bolshevik army would have been
impossible.

XXVI

"COME GET YOUR PILLS"

Medical Units Do Fine Work--Volunteers Of Old Detroit Red Cross Number
Eight Appear In North Russia As 337th Ambulance--Some Unforgettable
Stories That Make Our Teeth Grit--Wonderful Work Of 337th Field Hospital
Unit--Death Of Powers--Medical Men Do Heroic Duty.

Owing to the nature of the country in which the campaign was fought, the
337th Ambulance Company was not able to function as an ambulance company
proper. It was split up into fifteen detachments serving in various
parts of the area under conditions exactly as difficult as those
described for the medical and hospital units. In fact, the three
companies of men--medical, hospital, and ambulance--who ministered to
the needs of the wounded and sick were very soon hopelessly mixed up on
the various fronts.

At first among the officers there were some heart-burnings as to the
apparent incongruity of a hospital man doing field duty and an ambu