331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . I BATTERY B A 551!? Field Artillery,. The regiment spent but three days at De Souge. There was nothing to dobut stand reveille and retreat, dash through the rain to the airy mess hall,and keep up the fires in the stoves. Everyone will remember how, on the secondevening when Lieutenant Colnon was standing retreat to the music of a neighboringregiment, our own bugles interrupted with the rude regimental call and nearlybroke up the formation. The morning after this event, the 333rd was seen march-ing cut of camp, and late in the same afternoo
331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . I BATTERY B A 551!? Field Artillery,. The regiment spent but three days at De Souge. There was nothing to dobut stand reveille and retreat, dash through the rain to the airy mess hall,and keep up the fires in the stoves. Everyone will remember how, on the secondevening when Lieutenant Colnon was standing retreat to the music of a neighboringregiment, our own bugles interrupted with the rude regimental call and nearlybroke up the formation. The morning after this event, the 333rd was seen march-ing cut of camp, and late in the same afternoon we learned that we should hikefifteen miles the next day to an embarcation camp. The evening was spentbundling extra blankets and overcoats into squad rolls so as to lighten the march-ing pack, and loading them into trucks. A detail of cripples, cooks, and baggagesmashers went ahead with the trucks, while the rest of the battery turned infeeling that the end was not far off. Now there is some dispute as to who suffered most, the advance party, whichspent all night in the rain, on the t
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