"News, great news!" April 27, 1918, Dr. Norris was told to report to a hospital in Neufchateau, in the Toul Sector in Northeastern France.  After all the hardship and suffering which he witnessed at Le Tréport, a change of pace must have felt like a glimmer of hope.  On April 31 he noted that Neufchateau's weather "…was…pleasantly warm and sunshiny in striking contrast to that of Normandy on the Channel where we had spent the first year of our overseas service."

Norris is in center with fellow physicians at the Army Hospital in Toul Sector, 1918.

From April to October 1918, Norris worked at the Evacuation Hospital in Neufchateau, attended frequent meetings at the Toul Sector Red Cross station, shown here, and gave lectures on the treatment of poison gas to newly arrived American medical staff.

"Under the guise of studying industrial intoxications. The Hun had experimented extensively with chlorine, bromine, ….long before the beginning of the war." Norris continued, "The knowledge…gained was first employed….in April 1915, when large quantities of chlorine gas were discharged….with such ghastly effect against the Canadians….at Ypres. At that time gas masks were, among the Allies at least, unknown."