Depew’s Wartime Odyssey From Navy Service to Swiss Release
The narrative traces Albert N. Depew’s path from enlisting in the U S Navy to attaining chief petty officer, then fighting in France with the Foreign Legion, enduring Gallipoli and Dardanelles campaigns, enduring captivity aboard the Moewe and in German camps, and finally securing release with diplomatic help, ending in Switzerland and return to New York.
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Foreign Legion of France
Cessard
Albert N. Depew
United States Navy
Recalling War Memories and Family Tides in Boston
The speaker reflects on prisoners in a German jail, wartime hardships, and bands in town venues. He recalls enlistment pressure from relatives, family pleas, and a voyage from Boston back to St Nazaire after arriving in the Virginian, tying to his grandmother's tears. Murray and Brown join the Foreign Legion, with Brown in infantry and Murray on Cas'ard.
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Germany
Brandenburg
Murray
Brown
Foreign Legion
Cassard
Boston
St. Nazaire
Enlisting for the Foreign Legion The Author's Account
The narrator details his failed passport check at St Nazaire and successful enlistment in the Foreign Legion on January 1, 1915. He records life with the Casard and French navy, rough conditions at Spezia, gunnery tests earning three bars and 250 francs, and a farewell visit to his grandmother. He urges women to send departing soldiers off with a reassuring smile.
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Murray
Brown
Foreign Legion
Legion
C. P.O
la Legion
St. Nazaire
Efe
Berlin
Duty of all is clear in wartime bond drive appeal
A wartime plea states that victory relies not only on soldiers but on American dollars for armaments and supplies. It declares the nation as the atlas bearing global responsibility and urges every citizen to do his full share by buying bonds to fund food, clothing, weapons, and hundreds of essential items for Allied and American forces.
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Cassard
Murray
McLay
Brown
Legion
States
Fritz
Navy
Spezia
Italy
America
Europe
Flanders
Flanders Front
la Havre
St. Pol
Bergues
Dixmude
Pollu
United States Treasury
United States
Flanders Front Diary Delivers Patriotic Ode to Liberty Bonds
The narrator recounts travel from Brest to Bergues and Dixmude with a legion detachment. French girls at stations feed Pollus and boost morale while the author urges saving, sacrifice, and buying Liberty Bonds to fund the war.
Liberty Bond drive urges Ninth District to meet new quota
Narrow wartime appeal stresses patriotism and duty as readers in the Ninth District are urged to subscribe to the Fourth Liberty Loan between September 28 and October 3. The notice warns that failure would endanger allied victory and national morale, calling on citizens to sacrifice luxuries and savings to meet a doubled quota.
Ninth District leads in Third Liberty Loan effort
The Third Liberty Loan campaign mobilized over thirty thousand workers in the Northwest as the region’s financial army directed patriotic energy. The same leaders will head the Fourth Loan drive from September 28 to October 3, under public acknowledgement of their roles.
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Washington
Northwest
Liberty Loan
Coudefy
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Notable Northwest crops pledge strong wartime support
A patriotic message extols the Northwest for satisfactory crops and large anticipated returns. It promises the Ninth District will contribute fully to feeding troops and will also loan the Government money to back the Fourth Liberty Loan, reflecting a confident view of national prosperity.
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Armies of Freedom
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