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Empey's World War I Saga From Front Lines to Homeward Hope
Arthur Guy Empey recounts enlistment in Britain during World War I, his pull into front-line trench warfare, and the harrowing ambulance and hospital journeys in France and England. He details life in the American Women's War Hospital, nursing care, camaraderie among soldiers, surgeries, blood transfusions, and his eventual discharge as physically unfit.
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Lusitania
Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
Empey
France
No Man's Land
Old Pepper
No Alan's Land
Poinllets
Somme
Tommy
Cee da Theron Cuths
Royal Irish Rifles
Rk. A. M Oc
Red Cross
Panama
Southampton
Munsey Ward
S. W
Royal Field Artillery
Royal Engineers
Jock
Frost
Palmer
Cambridge Military Hospital
Aldershot
Paignton
Munsey
New York
Alantic
Aoe Erty
Oyer