Lieut. James Robbins Bean, MD

registered for the draft in Birmingham AL
• was living in Birmingham with his wife Grace (1920 census); James Robbins Bean; a physician
1920 United States Federal Census for James R Bean Alabama • Jefferson • Birmingham • District 0033

Military Service

1. Camp Gordon (Georgia)
2. France = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Infantry_Division_(United_States... including the 116th Ammunition Train, as stated on his return papers on the Kansas
3. buried at Arlington Nat'l cemetery having been unsuccessfully treated for his brain tumor at Walter Reed Hosp.
   

service dates overseas Nov. 26, 1917 through Feb. 23, 1919
discharged 2/26/1919
1 Lt Med RC
The idea behind the Medical Reserve Corps was to create a pool of trained medical officers who could be called to active duty in time of war. Under this new program, 160 medical professionals were commissioned as Medical Reserve Corps officers in June 1908. By June 1917, as the United States entered World War I, the Medical Reserve Corps had a strength of 9,223 doctors, dentists, and veterinarians.

"The first representatives of the Medical Department to go overseas did not wait for Pershing. While Gorgas was answering his own telephone amidst piles of unopened mail, the Red Cross base hospitals, now part of the Army, and various unattached medical personnel were crossing the Atlantic. By 25 May all six of the base hospitals promised to the British had sailed.

~• seems to have died childless

Medical Practice

Practice Dates Places:

• Ashbourne, PA, Nov 29, 1911, Jan 2, 1915, Philadelphia, PA, Jul 1, 1912, Jacksonville, FL, May 29, 1915, May 17, 1915, Oct 20, 1925, Birmingham, AL, Dec 4, 1916, May 15, 1919, Savannah, GA, Jan 2, 1924 Hospital: Samaritan Hospital, Philadelphia, 1912 < this is when James married Grace.

Faith

U.S., Presbyterian Records, 1743-1970 for James R. Bean Pennsylvania • Elkins Park • Ashbourne Presbyterian Church • Baptisms, Births, Marriages, Deaths 1919 - 1965

Sources

• https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a438001.pdf