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Description: | 50 ms letters (131 folios including some envelopes, with ts transcriptions of 12 of them) written to his family in New York whilst serving with 165th Infantry Regiment (69th New York), 42nd Division AEF, October 1917 - November 1918. The letters cover the journey to France and training in the Harte-Marne (October 1917 - February 1918), and service at the front, in the Luneville Sector (February - March) including during the German Spring Offensive; in the Baccarat Sector (April - June); at Chalons (July) and taking part in the Battle of the Ourcq; in camp at Bourmont (August), taking part in the St Mihiel Offensive (September) and then the Argonne Offensive (October), during which he was slightly wounded and sent to hospital.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1980-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 3rd Battalion 69th Infantry Regiment (New York) (165th Infantry Regiment) United States Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ross, Samuel Martin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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