'I was there' with the Yanks in France by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
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'I was there' with the Yanks in France
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Title: "I was there" with the Yanks in France.
Author: C. LeRoy Baldridge
Release Date: May 29, 2005 [EBook #15937]
Language: English
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"I was there"
with the Yanks in France
Sketches by
C. LeRoy Baldridge Private, A.E.F.
[Illustration: Audsurade Belgium - Nov. 11/1918]
"I WAS THERE"
WITH THE YANKS ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1917-1919
BY C. LEROY BALDRIDGE PVT. A.E.F.
TOGETHER WITH VERSES BY HILMAR R. BAUKHAGE PVT. A.E.F.
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1919
Copyright, 1919 BY C. LEROY BALDRIDGE
TO OUR MOTHERS
Ours the Great Adventure, Yours the pain to bear, Ours the golden service stripes, Yours the marks of care.
If all the Great Adventure The old Earth ever knew, Was ours and in this little book 'Twould still belong to you!
PREFACE
These Sketches were made during a year's service as a camion driver with the French amry in the Chemin-des-Dames sector and a year's service with the A.E.F. as an infantry private on special duty with "The Stars and Stripes," the official A.E.F