331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . Before The band led the regiment through Cherbourg on the entry onto French soillater and cheered the wounded warriors at the Belgian hospital at Cherbourgwith a concert for which we were rewarded with the biggest bunch of the biggestchrysanthemums anyone ever saw, all dolled up with the Belgian colors and lookinglike a billion dollars. The company men were just plain green-eyed jealous whenthe doggoned band returned bearing the trophy. Oh, yes! Cherbourg was theplace where the Frenchman kissed our Johnny Goggin! (And do you rememberhow th
331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . Before The band led the regiment through Cherbourg on the entry onto French soillater and cheered the wounded warriors at the Belgian hospital at Cherbourgwith a concert for which we were rewarded with the biggest bunch of the biggestchrysanthemums anyone ever saw, all dolled up with the Belgian colors and lookinglike a billion dollars. The company men were just plain green-eyed jealous whenthe doggoned band returned bearing the trophy. Oh, yes! Cherbourg was theplace where the Frenchman kissed our Johnny Goggin! (And do you rememberhow they cheered and sang when we played Le Regiment de Sambre-et-Meuse?Oh, Boy!) At Camp Hunt regular rehearsals were again resumed, the entire library havingbeen brought along. The collection was one of which any organization might. THE BAND 5511 Field Artillery,f^f ,- well be proud, including as it did six hundred selections with a large number ofthe best concert numbers valued at $1,000. Daily routing and Y. A. concerts occupied the next two months and then came the departure forhome. Generous recognition came to the band at Bordeaux, both from the audiencesof other regiments and from the camp commander, Col. Spike Hennessey,who was desirous of holding the outfit for his camp band. The boys finally gotaway, but only after playing everywhere day and night for weeks around bothcamps, at Bordeaux and at the Bassens docks for Y concerts, dances, dinners,funerals, a war orphan show and the departure of a hospital transport, the rewardbeing everything from three cheers to a cup of cocoa and sometimes both. Poor Christie was unlucky enough to get the mumps at the last minute andwas left behind. And plucky Goodwin Canfield, ill for months in the hospitalat Camp Hunt. Wed have given anything to have brought him bac
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