"C" battery book, 306th FA., 77th div., 1917-1919 . CHAPTER VII HOMEWARD BOUND? WE move back a short distance taking- billets inan abandoned Hun Barracks near La we sent our horses to another divisionand prepared for home. Some bets were offered thatwe would be home by Christmas but nobody said whatyear. On the 20th we started for Marcq; all our stuff wastaken in motor trucks, so we were traveling one night in Verpel and on the next day arrivedat Alarcq where we found OBriens circus billeted verycomfortably. After policing the area as usual we set-tled down to drillin
"C" battery book, 306th FA., 77th div., 1917-1919 . CHAPTER VII HOMEWARD BOUND? WE move back a short distance taking- billets inan abandoned Hun Barracks near La we sent our horses to another divisionand prepared for home. Some bets were offered thatwe would be home by Christmas but nobody said whatyear. On the 20th we started for Marcq; all our stuff wastaken in motor trucks, so we were traveling one night in Verpel and on the next day arrivedat Alarcq where we found OBriens circus billeted verycomfortably. After policing the area as usual we set-tled down to drilling. Thanksgiving was celebrated bya royal dinner of camoufake Canned Willy and Hard-tack. At night we had Lemon Extract a la Vin , the fine speech of Colonel A\ inn and theMayors of Alarcq and St. Juvain furnished us with someenjoyment and tended to keep up our spirits. 86 C BATTERY HISTORY. C BAlTe*^Y GtT5 AW CAJ^FoLL OP TYPHOID November 30th found us on our way to Autrywhere we slept over night, boarchng l)iL; American boxcars in the morning-. After a twenty-four-hour ride wegot off at Latrecey, staying over night and marchingfor Dancevoir early next morning. Dancevoir is a pretty village settled in l)etween thehills on the bank of the Aube river. Tlie river wasmostly all over the village. After a few days of clean-ing up we started the eternal grind of drilling and learn-ing how to be soldiers. Oh, it was wonderful, the merethought of it, learn how to be a soldier.
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