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Description: | Privately published ts copy of his heavily edited and amended 1917 - 1918 diary (58pp) covering his enlistment, at the age of 18, as an ambulance driver in the American Ambulance Field Service, and his service in France, mainly in the Verdun - Chalons area of the French Sector, with Section Sanitaire Etats-Unis 15, attached to 32nd French Division (April - September 1917) and with 130th French Division (October 1917 - November 1918). The diary provides some insight into the attitude of an American towards the French Army, and includes interesting references to mutiny in the French Army at Verdun in April 1917.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1980-11-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | American Ambulance Field Service American Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Preston, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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