. History of Joseph Born and his descendants . d, Nev- YorK, tlie i^dfllo of Sept.¥e then trained until and nere jsent overseas. We landed in Liverpool,Sni^. :on tlie 20Va of Nov. and after spendington dayR in Er^^land i^cre sent acrosn theEnglish Channel to Le Havre,France, whereafter one night ^s stay xre ^rere put aboo-rda train and traveled for three days andnights to a little toFn naiaed Vancoloirs,about fifteen Liiles from the front linetrenciies, where it Tras easy to hear thereport of the heavy artilleri-. ¥e cangpedthere till ffhen v:e start^^d on aten da3- march wit
. History of Joseph Born and his descendants . d, Nev- YorK, tlie i^dfllo of Sept.¥e then trained until and nere jsent overseas. We landed in Liverpool,Sni^. :on tlie 20Va of Nov. and after spendington dayR in Er^^land i^cre sent acrosn theEnglish Channel to Le Havre,France, whereafter one night ^s stay xre ^rere put aboo-rda train and traveled for three days andnights to a little toFn naiaed Vancoloirs,about fifteen Liiles from the front linetrenciies, where it Tras easy to hear thereport of the heavy artilleri-. ¥e cangpedthere till ffhen v:e start^^d on aten da3- march with all equipment and thrutwo feet of sno^j for a tovrri called Chalan-es about 120 liiiles avray. At this place wegji^ned till T;hen rre entrainedfor the Lorraine front, on wetook over our first sector. On March 3rd vrewere attacKed for the first tine oy thefamous Gernan Pinissian Guard but repuls-ed the attacK in a half hour vrith our cas-ualties nuLibering 21 and the Genaan^: deadlying all over no inan*s land. No other 2f. in France,about 75 miles away, at a tovncalled aievi?es(pronounced Jevs). I stay-ed there until Aug,i9t j^hen I left forport of erabarkation for transportation tothe tr. S, for intiediate disc^iarce. On I had teen apt)ointedSergeant. I was discharged on Sept,4,1919 atCamp Zachary Taylor* Louisville^ Ky. The followinc Tras T^ritten a ehorttime after iiy wife^s death, A TrilDUte to ny Grandj;iother,Mrs^,iDy her Grrandson, Clarence Ruscell Hinlile,-My Grandmother ^ras a jenelUpon which there wa?: no roay have seen more handsorae ones;But none that vrere so nice. When I*d go dovm to Grand:iia*8It surely was a treatTo get outside her coohingThat never has been l^eat* Whenever there was jolcingYou^d find Grandma on the spot;And when it cane to dutyWell- she was rlfjht up to the dot. And to her helpful hustjand She shoTxed love that had no end. She vras not just his wif ie But was his dear and closest friend. How rriuc
Size: 1196px × 2089px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidhistoryofjos, bookyear1920
