Boston Teen’s Grim Chronicle Of War Service In France
William J. Robinson profiles a twenty two year old Boston boy who served fourteen months in France as a dragoon guardsman dispatch rider and motor car driver under the British flag. Of thirty one motorcycle dispatch riders, he was one of four survivors.
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War memories of a young American in British service
William J. Robinson recounts enlisting in a British cavalry, serving at Ostend and Ypres, driving armored cars, and fighting across Kemmel and Dickebusch. He describes nurse workers, hospital dangers, mail practices, a dramatic brewery siege, and a trek to Paris with vivid frontline episodes and rare glimpses of theInspectors and the Prince of Wales.
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Troubles, a Right Bird Man Defends Liberty
An excerpted line from Uncle Eben in the Washington Star portrays Troubles as a mischief subject and asserts that a rightful owner will not tolerate liberties, framing the issue as a moral stance or jurisdictional claim.
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