Title	Lieutenant Colonel Sheep Special Orders No. 240 Extract - September 2, 1918
Creator	Sheep
Source	Sheep. Special Orders No. 240 Extract. 2 September 1918. Leonard, Esther, Dr. Papers (1914-1919). A1814. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri.
Description	Lieutenant Colonel Sheep issued this special order directing Dr. Esther E. Leonard to report to duty Anesthetic Unit No. 1 in New York City. Dr. Leonard served as a contract surgeon during World War I at the U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1 in New York City and at an evacuation hospital in Vichy, France.
Subject.LCSH	World War, 1914-1918; United States. Army. Sanitary Corps; World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--United States; World War, 1914-1918--Women
Subject.Local	WWI; World War I; U.S. General Hospital No. 1
Relation	Leonard, Esther, Dr. Papers (1914-1919)
Site Accession Number	A1814
Contributing Institution	Missouri History Museum
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Coverage	New Jersey--Hudson County--Hoboken; Missouri--Saint Louis
County	Saint Louis (Mo.)
Volume	1 order, 1 page
Publisher.Digital	Springfield-Greene County Library District
Date.Original	September 2, 1918
Date.Digital	2013-11-05
Type	Military records
Format.Digital	JPEG 2000
Language	English
Collection Name	Over There: Missouri and the Great War
Transcript	U. S. Army General Hospital No. 1. (Columbia War Hospital) New York, [New York] September 2, 1918. Special Orders, No. 240. Extract. 3. Pusuant to verbal instructions, Surgeon Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, New Jersey, this date, the following officers and contract surgeons attached to Anaesthetic Unit Number One will proceed to Pier 59, 20th Street, North River, New York City, [New York], arriving there not later than 7 a.m., Tuesday, September 3, 1918, reporting to the Commanding Officer, Anaesthetic Unit Number One upon their arrival thereat: 1st Lieut. John C. Gable M.C. USA 1st Lieut. Edward J. Hyland, M.C. USA Contract Surgeon Martha J. Peebles, USA Contract Surgeon Isabel Gray, USA Contract Surgeon Elizabeth M. Hocker USA Contract Surgeon Dora L. Horn USA Contract Surgeon Esther E. Leonard USA Contract Surgeon Edna Smith USA Contract Surgeon Jessie Southgate USA The Quartermaster Corps will furnish the necessary transportation. The travel directed is necessary in the military service. By order of Lieut. Colonel Sheep: G. W. Mathews, 1st Lieutenant, Sanitary Corps, USA. Adjutant. dd. [stamp] U.S.A. GEN. HOSP. No. 1 NEW YORK OFFICIAL