Choppie Field Sick With Trench Fever, Not Spanish Flu, 1918

“Sick With Trench Fever,” from The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Sept. 28, 1918. Trench fever is caused by infection with Bartonella Quintana and the soldiers got it from lice. It’s not the same as trench foot.

The many friends of Choppie Field will regret to learn he is in a hospital in London with Trench fever. However he writes while he is very weak, he expects to leave the hospital soon and his new address will be 20^th Reserve Bat. Bamsholt, Surrey, England.

He has been in France 18 months straight and was in the first part of the last offensive. He write he is already on the lookout for some Wilson boy, as he would be so glad to return some of the hospitality Wilson has given him.