rican doughboy who ever went through the old 53rd Stationary
hospital will ever forget his homesickness and feeling of outrage at the
treatment by the perhaps well-meaning but nevertheless callous and
coarse British personnel. Think of tea, jam and bread for sick and
wounded men. An American medical sergeant who has often eaten with the
British sergeants at that hospital, Sergeant Glenn Winslow, who made out
the medical record for every wounded and sick man of the Americans who
went through the various hospitals at Archangel, and who was frequently
present at the British sergeant's mess at the hospital, relates that
there were plenty of fine foods and delicacies and drink for the
sergeant's messes, corroborated by Mess Sgt. Vincent of. "F" Company.
And a similar story was told by an American medical officer who was
invalided home in charge of over fifty wounded Americans. He had often
heard that the comforts and delicacies among the British hospital
supplies went to the British officers' messes. Captain Pyle was in
command on the icebreaker "Canada" and saw to it that the limited supply
of delicacies went to the wounded men most in need of it. There were
several British officers on the icebreaker enroute to Murmansk who set
up a pitiful cry that they had seen none of the extras to which they
were accustomed, thinking doubtless that the American officer was
holding back on them. Captain Pyle on the big ship out of Murmansk took
occasion to request of the British skipper that the American wounded on
board the ship be given more food and more palatable food. He was asked
if he expected more for the doughboy than was given to the Tommie. The
American officer's reply was characteristic of the difference between
the attitude of British and American officers toward the enlisted man:

"No, sir, it is not a question of different treatment as between Tommie
and doughboy. It is difference in the feeding of the wounded and sick
American officers and the feeding of wounded and sick American enlisted
men. My government makes no such great difference. I demand that my
American wounded men be fed more like the way in which the officers on
this ship are fed."

Lest we forget, this same medical officer in charge at one time of a
temporary hospital at a key point in the field, was over-ranked and put
under a British medical officer who brought about the American officer's
recall to the base because he refused to put the limited American