Front Line Echoes of Arthur Empey War Memoir
In a first person narrative, Arthur Empey recounts enlisting in France after the Lusitania sinking, enduring trench life, and a daring plan with teammate Cassell to fire on German troops using a ruse. The tale details Old Pepper's disciplina ry rule and a dramatic artillery strike that tops off their defiant gambit.
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Lusitania
Arthur Guy Empey
Torses City
England
Tuah
Empey
France
Fokker
Tommy
Emey
Fumrey
Tiaetk
Empry
Suicide Ditch
Empy
Sturge
The
Borane Ag
Tommmy
Ounter Gerran
Old Pepper
Qld Pepper
Pepper
Harry Cassell
D 288
Fritz
Yank
Seattle
Thether
Tery
Jess
Cassell
Elville
Signalers
Frits
CIA
King’s Arms
Rye Lane
Reichstag
Cptain
Hke
Blighty
Bowies
Nice
Wilson
Svenporta
Andi
Diary Excerpt From Battery D 238 Front Line Dugout
A soldier records moving into a machine gunner dugout near an artillery post. He befriends Bombardier Wilson of Battery D 238 and recalls wartime hardships including two Christmas dinners in the trenches and longing for home amid grim losses.
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Dryas
R. E.8
Royal Field Artillery
Bombardier Wilson
Christman
Fritz
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Listening Post
Una
Leutenaont
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Jupiter
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Heten
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Neith
Duzent
Woolworth
Niagara Falls
Denner
Kritten
Jack Johnson
Paris
Cc. M. Bubeck
J. E. Callacher
Embalaers