Lieutenant Colonel Alexius M. Forster helped organize the hospital in 1918. The caption dates his command from March 1 to September 14 that year, placing this portrait in the hospital’s first months of Army operation.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
Source: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 31. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
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Silent Grounds Collective, William Wirt Winchester Hospital, SGC-ED085, ED085-P31, “Alexius M. Forster, commanding officer.” Source: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 31. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.. https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-24.