“Of the 12 men who slept in my squad room, 7 were ill at one time,” a soldier recalled ... The huge Army base was training men for combat in World War I, and within two weeks 1,100 soldiers ...

Pope Pius X was head of the Catholic Church from 1903 until his death in 1914 ... worsened by the event leading to the outbreak of World War 1, which reportedly made the late pontiff “melancholy”.