France Through War Years A Soldier Tells His Village
A serviceman writes from Base Hospital No 32 about a year in France. He recalls first impressions of springtime Belle France, the hardening of discipline, and the steady arrival of wounded to the hospital. He notes rain, cold December, and expected Allied offensives with Yank courage, maps the front, and describes evacuation trains and Red Cross hospital convoys shaping daily life.
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Pairfield
France
Bernie
Parise
Fance
Hindenburg
American Red Cross
War letters from France describe unit life and sacrifice
A World War I diary notes Red Cross huts, leave plans, and a soldier's awe at a funeral held in Aix-les Baines. It recalls gas attacks, improvised hospital life, and the cost of liberty as Turner writes to his parents about health, weather, and hopes for home.
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Red Cross
Edmund Hunt
Merle Caris
Rob Anstead
A. E
France
Aix-les Baines
Cy. Lamson
Harv Gaumer
Q. K
Eome
U. S
A. E. Turner
Food Conservation Urged for War Needs
The federal food administration states 250000 prisoners on western battlefields and millions of months of troops in France require feeding. It urges rigid nationwide conservation to share food with allies and feed our own population and armies, plus German prisoners, by sending as much again as before.
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New York
Federal Food Administration
France
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Anthony E. Turner
Fred Turner
John T. Davies
Ren
Gable Lumber Go
Frank D. Kerrick
Tribune
Blue Grass Tire Shop
J. L. Smith
West
Burlington Street
Kodak
West Pocket
Gaumers’ Drug Store
A. W. Switzer
Third St
Kenyon
Wm. S. Kenyon
Iowa
United States Senate
Muscatine
J. Goldman
Cedar St
Des Moines
Evening Tribune
Des Moines Evening Paters
Dessone
Oines
The
Fairfield Daily Journal
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