Arthur Guy Empey and the Great War Chronicles
The text outlines Arthur Guy Empey’s WWI experiences from enlistment after Lusitania sinking through front-line service in France. Chapters cover training, trench life, charges, gas, executions, hospital, and wartime attitudes including a mock comms and a raid with no prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lusitania
Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
Empey
France
Elim
Trent
Fokker
Bom
No Man's Land
Old Pepper
No Man’s
Cos Company
the Bomme
Meagan
A Scoth Soldier’s Near Death in No Man’s Land
The narrator recounts a brutal trench raid and a day and a half in No Man’s Land. A Scottish ally leapt into the air and died. the narrator was wounded, bandaging failed, and a first aid post and ambulance transfer followed amid shellfire and chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz
Scottie
Jack
Ane
Blighty to Panamus to Munsey Ward A WWI Tale
A wounded American in World War I recalls a long transport to hospital ships and red cross care. He details an eighteen mile ambulance ride, bloodied bandages, and nurses who feel like angels. The journey ends in Munsey ward with stars and stripes and convalescent humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Royal Irish Rifles
Red Cross
Panama
Channel
Jacks
Southampton
Paignton
Munsey Ward
American Women’s War Hospital
S. W
Royal Field Artillery
Royal Engineers
Jock
Not a Great Many of Him
Uncle Eben comments on what makes a real man as generous with others mistakes as with his own optimistic thought. The passage notes that ignorant or corrupt people cannot sustain republican institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Women's
Dti
Eben
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Gommecourt Wood
Blighty
Royal Army Medical Corps
Fred Brooks
Harpers Lodge
A. P.M
F. A. Weatherford
W. M
Wiehrs
Secy
M. Klaff
Wathambr. Co. Andrews
S. C
Danville, Va
Chas. J. Levy
King Street
NEW Shoe Factory
Charleston, S. C
A.C.L. Corporation
the Bank of Andrews
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