"C" battery book, 306th FA., 77th div., 1917-1919 . of the hring line. Passes had been given out to Bordeaux. Some ofthe boys nuist have turned the city inside out, for anorder came suspending the passes. And then they weregranted again. No doubt some funny things happened,but the boys kept nuim about them. So shall we. On June 3d, we received our first jolt in the ac-cidental death of Irivate John J. Wallace. He was al^ood soldier and a better comrade. He was buried withfull military honors. A firing s(|uad of his friends firedthe last salute. Target practice 1)egan, and under the hot sun wew
"C" battery book, 306th FA., 77th div., 1917-1919 . of the hring line. Passes had been given out to Bordeaux. Some ofthe boys nuist have turned the city inside out, for anorder came suspending the passes. And then they weregranted again. No doubt some funny things happened,but the boys kept nuim about them. So shall we. On June 3d, we received our first jolt in the ac-cidental death of Irivate John J. Wallace. He was al^ood soldier and a better comrade. He was buried withfull military honors. A firing s(|uad of his friends firedthe last salute. Target practice 1)egan, and under the hot sun wewere lugging heavy ammunition and firing the prob-Incidentally a few fires broke out in the brush,3MTLIN6, and the whole camp hadto turn out to extin-guish the fast spreadingflames. We had great funpracticing w i t h g a smasks, especially ChiselRobinson and Deutch,neither of whom hadteeth enough to hold the mask on. Twas here that Battling White earned his title andreputation by knocking out all comers in a battery box-ing contest. lems. BE N ;?. C BATTERY HISTORY At times bread was short and jam was always anunknown quantity, but there were a few in the batterywho partook in the parties o-iven by the Mess Serjeantin his barracks where l)eaucoup l)read and jam were inevidence. We were paraded in Bordeaux on July 4lh, and thenwe heard that we were to .^o to the front. Prepara-tions were made and on the ni,L;ht of the 12th, westarted to roll packs and clean up the barracks. \\ ewere up at 3 and went to the kitchen to !.;et breadand coffee into which Gulianti had spilled kerosene assuciar was scarce. Under way at last, and boarded the cars about noonthe next day. This time we were more comfortable asonly 20 men were in each car and we had our bed-sacks to sleep on. A ride of two days took us to Bac-carat in the Lorraine Sector, where we detrained inthe darkness.
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