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Ex Buck Private Returns to France Tales of Food and Friendship
The piece recalls Francois Villett of Nogent en Bassieny buying a raincoat from a former buck private and Gonzalue Crazat near St Nazaire buying a car from an officer. It recounts a lively 1918 village feast with trading, soups, stews, and 100 apple pies baked by Gorge Miskowicz. It also covers a Mezieray soap cache raid, butter obsessions in French dining, and a roadside grave of H. H. Houston Woodward. The article links memories of the Second AEF to a 1926 meeting between Fleurus and a German major in Compiegne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Adams
A.ef
Francois Villett
Nogent-en- Bassieny
Gonzalue Crazat
St. Nazaire
Gorge Miskowicz
Grand Rapids
Mich
St. Quentin
Prederic Bilaudin
Jules Gadelorge
Bendarmerie of
Montdidier
H. H. Howse Woodward
Tricot
Ward
Fooly Legion
Fooly Legion's
France
H. H. Houston Woodward
Lafayette Flying Corps
Stad
Lake Flying Corps
Fieurus
Tracy
Dive
Fleurus
Compiegne
Oise