The War Seen By Roosevelt and Allied Action
Lt Col Theodore Roosevelt describes German advances through a gap and the allied response as troops entrain for new sectors. The report highlights Cary's notable feat and first decorations, plus a supply officer's efficient journey by military train from Chaumont to Montdidier during four days of the march.
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Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Gap
Cary
France
Chaumont
Montdidier
Wheeley
MPL
Wheeler
Nan
Average Americans in Olive Crab Chapter VI Battle Memoir
Theodore Roosevelt recounts late March 1918 activities of the Twenty sixth Infantry during a German breakthrough and retreat to Montdidier. He details moving trains, frontline rumors, decorations for Lieut Holmes and Sergeant Murphy, and life among officers, cooks, and mules amid unsettled marching through Chaumont to Montdidier.
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Toul
Iere
Cary
Holmes
Murphy
Lieut
Gustafson
Wheeler
Death in La Porte City after influenza epidemic
O H Run del died at his La Porte City home Monday morning from complications after a severe bout with Spanish influenza during the epidemic last winter. He leaves a widow and several children. The town reports a family reunion at Mrs Emma Bruce’s home with most children present. Various residents, travelers, and workers are noted, including Mrs Lola Bruce Keyes visiting from Shepard Michigan and Harold Bruce at Urbana. A local sorghum factory opened, producing amber sorghum, run by Mr and Mrs Scott.
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la Porte City
O. H. Rundel
Emma Bruce
Glen Bruce
Alberta
Lola Bruce Keyes
Shepard
Mich
Key
Doris Bruce
Ienesha
Wis
Aubrey Bruce
Celwein
Harold Bruce
Urbana
Clayton Vaislett
Freeman Twatslett
Dan’ Batsch
Audrey Isdeil
Ervin Cutler
West Concord
Dodge County
Minn
Clayte Uaislett
B. O. Wilcox
Garden Grove
Wilcox
Town City
David Cole
William Cote
Walter, Nation Farm
Main Street
M Panjed
Is. D. O. Madlex
Accomasephine Goodwin
Cleveland
Goodwin
Sisie and
Clyde
Mary Boyer
George Rover
Shermansdale
Frank Tu
Rover
Dows
Mr. McAlister
M Royer
Shermandale
Lyman
McAlister
Royer
Tl. 1
Scott
Fragmentary wartime note on a German sergeant
A fragmentary wartime line notes a German sergeant commanding the party, claimed killed, with the text continuing in the next section. The garbled OCR suggests a battlefield or unit command reference amid irregular transcription.
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Sér‘geant
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