. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . remendous roar. Fromhere we went to Bois de Lolime, then to Cotede Roches, to Bois de Brabant, to dOrmont^back to Cote de Roches, from there to Boisde Consenvoy, to Bois de Etraye, where wewere holding a position along the MeuseRiver, and made several attacks in a placeknowTi as Death Valley. I dont knowwho originated the name of Death Valley,but it certainly fitted the place, as a fellowcouldnt stick his head up without getting dug-outs wer>e scarce, and the men hadto dig in and put up their shelter- halves andsleep in th3m. It was a common
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . remendous roar. Fromhere we went to Bois de Lolime, then to Cotede Roches, to Bois de Brabant, to dOrmont^back to Cote de Roches, from there to Boisde Consenvoy, to Bois de Etraye, where wewere holding a position along the MeuseRiver, and made several attacks in a placeknowTi as Death Valley. I dont knowwho originated the name of Death Valley,but it certainly fitted the place, as a fellowcouldnt stick his head up without getting dug-outs wer>e scarce, and the men hadto dig in and put up their shelter- halves andsleep in th3m. It was a common thing to seea shall drop, a shelter half go up in the airand several men with it. The Germans,who occupied Hill No. 360, had wonderfulobservation for miles around, and could seepractically everything that we did. In fact,the few dug-outs that w^ere up there were facingthe German lines, and naturally a fellow hadto make himself scarce in the daytime, orelse his name would be among the our artillery finally got set, we drove. Sergeants J. B. Moriarity and C. O. HealyFormerly of the Baltimore Division, overseas with the 333rd Labor Battalion, Q. M. C. 76 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE the Germans out, and after we took possessionof the hill, we readily saw why they left—the woods were very much torn up by ourartillery. We were up on this front, which was calledthe Meuse, until the Armistice was signed, andthen we went back to a place called OrmontFarm, where we stayed for a few weeks; thenjourneyed to Verdun, rather south of Verdun,to a place called Caserne Niel. At this placewe had charge of the American French who were there had charge of theRussians, French, Italians, Roumanians, andthe English took charge of their own , I never saw so many different kinds ofsoldiers in my life, and from the looks ofsome of them, one could readily see thatthe Germans treated them pretty this place thousands of prisoners of allnations c
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