From Ilwaco to the Russo-Japanese War
A local physician departs for the front to serve as a surgeon for the Russian government.
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Ilwaco, Wash.—Dr. Raymond Klamke, a practicing physician and surgeon, left on the Empress of Japan on her last trip for the Orient. He has been appointed by the Russian government to a position in the hospital service at the front. He will proceed from Shanghai directly to Harbin and Mukden. Dr. Klamke is of Danish birth and received his medical education in Copenhagen. He has been in America for the past three years, practicing medicine with great success. He has a strain of Russian blood in his veins and is in deep sympathy with the trouble of the Czar. He says it has been the dream of his life to see active surgical service on the field. Dr. Klamke speaks English and German fluently and can make himself understood in French.
“He says it has been the dream of his life to see active surgical service on the field, and when the news of his appointment came he was overjoyed.”
This story highlights the global reach of early 20th-century life in Washington, where residents could, and did, find themselves swept up in major international conflicts, illustrating a level of global connection often overlooked in local history.
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