Depew First Front Line Trench Experience at Dixmude
Albert N. Depew recalls service in the United States Navy ending as chief petty officer first class gunner. He enters World War I early, joins the Foreign Legion, serves aboard the dreadnaught Cassard, earns honors for marksmanship, then moves to the land forces on the Ypres front.
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Cuis-Navy
Foreign Legion OF France
Cassard
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Beinon Ca
Spackal Aruceimera
George Manhew Adanm
Synopals
Albert N. Depew
United States Navy
Navy
France
Foreign Legion
Wlinders Front
Fritz
Mills
Thane
In the communication trench and frontline life report
A wartime letter describes trench routines from Dixmude to No Man’s Land. Details include distance, camouflage, billets, rationing, lice and cootie culture, and daily cycles. It notes snipers, listen posts, and discipline, plus French 75s and German artillery dynamics shaping front lines.
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Dixmude
Ginger Brown and the 75mm at Dixmude Front
The narrator recalls Ginger Brown a tall red headed infantry sergeant in the Legion famed for his slow manner and sharp tricks. In a dawn excursion near Dixmude Brown leads him to a hidden 75mm gun emplacement where Brown instructs, fires, and explains gunnery, impressing the crew and the narrator.
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Legion
United States Infantry
Ike
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Oll Dopey Brown
Dixmude
Old Fritz
Vengeance Sworn by Foreign Legion After Belgian Civilians Shielded
Gunner Depew recounts the Foreign Legion soldiers of fortune swearing vengeance upon witnessing Germans place Belgian women and children as shields against fire. The story continues in the next installment.
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Foreign Legion
Gunner Depew
Cockney Students See The Merchant of Venice
A fragment from London Tit-Bits recalls senior boys from a Vauxhall school visiting the old Vic to watch The Merchant of Venice. During Shylock’s pound of flesh scene a cockney pupil cries out to the judge to “Ask him for his meat card.”
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Vauxhall
Old Vic
Shylock
London
Turtle egg counts vary widely in early nests
Turtle eggs range from 60 to 100 in number per clutch. Early eggs resemble damp parchment as they begin incubation.
Etah Alaska Village Described By Arctic Explorer
Etah is the northernmost town in the world visited by MacMillan. The Eskimo mother carries her baby on her back while cooking and tending tasks. Eskimo superstition holds that bathing babies makes them cross, with explorers noting infants may never have been washed.
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Etah
MacMillan
Lemon Juice For Freckles Advertisement Remedy
A home remedy claims squeezing the juice of two lemons into three ounces of orchard white creates a cheap freckle sunburn and tan lotion. The lotion is marketed as harmless and suitable for face neck arms and hands to fade freckles and brighten skin.
Germanic Lingo Echoes in Stable Call at Dawn
A college professor at a liv ery stable addressed a hostler with pomp while instructing him to extricate a horse, feed it, and await a morning aurora to receive a monetary reward. The groom retreats inside as a man shouts that a Dutch speaker wishes to talk. By June 29 the US had spent 13.8 billion dollars fighting Germany.
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Roy
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