When my wounds heal up, which they are fast doing, I will be just as good as new, no scars at all. I am very happy here and hope every day that you are as happy and never worry about me. I surely have given you a lot of trouble and anxiety, and hope that I will do always as you say after this. The best of my experience is that I have never once regretted this great trip, and I think I have done a small part of a great work, and my _Médaille_ shows what the French think of my services. I will throw aside modesty for the moment. It is given for discipline and valor, and by the way, what amuses me, there is an annual pension of one hundred francs. I have been treated wonderfully since I had it given me. The French keep me in official quarters and give me officer's grub, which is about one hundred per cent better than the soldiers'. I am having some wonderful experiences.... I am still continuing my diary, and I assure you it is full of thrills. I am the only ambulance boy who has been given a _Médaille_, and I am told that Mr. Balsley, an American aviator, is the only other American who has it. Well, enough of this conceit. Excuse writing; written in great haste in bed. Please cable me some money if you will permit me to go to England for a week. Perhaps I can get ---- to go with me. Lots of love to all; my best to Grandma. WILLIAM [_The following paragraphs are from a letter written to the family of William Barber by his Section leader, Lovering Hill._] ... William was wounded on the night of the 27th of June while bringing back wounded from the _poste de secours_. It was a dangerous road, and seeing some shelling on the road ahead of him, he had stopped to await its cessation. He was about to start up again when a shell fell a few feet away, many small fragments of which struck him, one large one striking him a glancing blow on the side. He ran back a few yards and was picked up by one of his comrades who brought him to the dressing-station at Verdun, where I was at the time. There his wounds were dressed; one of them proved to be serious. I got in touch at once with the _Médecin divisionnaire_, who is the chief of the _Service de Santé_ of our Division, who immediately took charge of the case and personally accompanied your son in the ambulance which brought him to Vadelaincourt--the nearest surgical ambulance, twenty-five kilometers back. There he awakened a very well-known Parisian physician and surgeon, Dr. Lucas Championière, who operated at once.