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The Diary Pages 71-80 - chronology - The Armistice & Home
Nov 8 Left Chemery for
Sedan arrived on
outskirts of Sedan at 9 p.m.
Third Platoon in
Sedan all night. Hell.
9 Left Sedan at 1 p.m.
and arrived in Chemery
at 6 p.m. spent night.
10 Left Chemery at 8 a.m.
and arrived in Sam-
mouth at 5 p.m. 25 K
all in.
11 Left Sammouth at
8 a.m. arrived at 2 p.m.
in Beffu. Noise stopped at 11am
12 Big noise stopped at
11 am
12 Rest. |
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Nov.
13 Left Beffu at 2 a.m. hiked
to St. George camped
on a hillside out of town.
14 Rest wind.
15 Hiked to a bunch of
holes. Town unknown.
16 eft holes hiked to
French Barrick on
out skirts of Stenay.
17 Rest.
18 Rest.
19 Got paid 2 months
cloth at 12 A M.
20 Left Stenay hiked to
Thornells more cloths
at 12:00 p.m.
21 Left Thornells at
12 O'Clock cross border. |
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Nov
21 Into Belgium hiked
to Belfountain.
22 Left Belfountain and hiked
to Tonches.
23 Left Tonches and at
1 p.m. crossed border
into Luxenbourg at
3 p.m. arrived at Rip-
Weiler.
24 Rest.
25 Rest. Luxenbourg.
26 Drill Pack
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Dec
1 Left been Ripweiler at 11AM
hiked to Frisch where we
stayed at all night
2 Left Frisch at 9 a.m. hiked
to Christnach stayed
all night.
3 Left Christnach at 8
hiked to Frachweiler which
is in Ger. Crossed Ger.
border at Bellondorf at
11am.
4 Left over at Frachweiler
supplies to far behind
have good place people
talk English. Ger. treat
us fine.
5 Left Frachweiler for
Briersdorf. |
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Dec 6th Left for Schoneken.
7th Left for Dollendrof.
9th Left for Schuld
layover at Schuld for
4 days.
14 Left for Mayschoss.
15 Left for Wnbebback.
Hiked along Rhine for
some sights.
16 Stay in billits all
day.
17 Stay in billet all day.
18 A little drill
19 Stay in billet all day
20 Little drill washed
packs after noon.
21 Delnseption
22 Nothing. |
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December 23rd Worked on a rifle range that is the Co. did.
December 24th Left Wklebach for a chateau on the Rhine River some fine
place got my Christmas box wrote with my new Pen.
December 25th Christmas morning ground covered with snow. Capt. Baker
wish the Co. a Merry Christmas. Y. Gave us a little remembrance. Good
man. Christmas dinner: pork chops. Spaghetti and macaroni.
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Peach cobbler.
Butter
Coffee
Sugar
Milk
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Potato salad
Bread
Had a Sgt. table.
Sgt. Otter Garace
went to Unkelbach
and took the key to
the room.
26 left chateau went
to Winlebach and
loaded on truck
to school went to
Coblenze. From there
to Metz. |
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Dec
27 Left Metz for Paris
on Paris limited.
28 Arrived in Paris stayed
till next day.
29 Left Paris for Dijon
arrived in Dijon at.
Went to Ponast M.
30 Left Dijon for
Le Sur Tille. Left
Le Sur Tille at 7:20
for Chattian Sur
Saine.
31 Nothing to do but
try and get an bath.
Nothing doing.
Students raised hell
at 12 O'Clock
Mud ass deep |
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1919
Jan 1st New year. Nothing
doing.
Jan 2nd School started. some
school. drilled in P.M.
lecture in A.M.
1918 I. D. R.
School on grenade
for 2 weeks.
Jan 16 Changed to auto
rifle.
Jan 26 Homesick
as hell. Snowing.
Can't figure why I'm
homesick.
Jan 29 Last day of school
will soon leave. |
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Comments: Here we have mention of the grenade training and automatic rifle training. The first pages in the journal have notes from the hand grenade training and the later pages (87-95) notes from the automatic rifle training.
Also note that the handwriting in the journal now changes day by day. The form changes as well as ink to pencil. Now he is keeping a record in this book, day by day. |
Feb 1 Left Chattian
Sur Scine for the
company.
Feb 3 Arrive back to the
Co. 10p.m. at Roland
sect. Ger.
Drill till another
entry.
Feb 5 Second Rlitter.
March 10 back to three platoons
as R. Gurde.
April 7 Left Rolanded
Ger.
April 10 Arrived in Brest.
April 16 Load on Leviathan
April 18 Left Brest.
April 25 Land at Hoboken.
April 26 Went to camp
Merritt, N. J. |
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| Comments: The last entry is too blurred to really read, but we know that they went to Camp Merritt, N.J. when they left the dock at Hoboken. |
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