Friends of France

How lonely my old house must be when the winter storms surge round it at midnight. How the great flakes must swirl round its ancient chimney, and fall softly down the black thro...

_December 3._ To Thoms--enormous amount of heavy artillery on the road--eternal convoys of mules on way up. Kept getting stuck--finally got through--found Galatti--terrible weat...

During one bombardment, some time ago, however, a considerable number of women and children were killed. A couple of the American ambulances were on the spot immediately after,...

From all the foregoing it must not be imagined that Section Y has a sinecure, or that strolling around gardens is a habit. Far from it. The regular daily service is arduous enou...

THE Section which is here designated as the "Section in Flanders" has at least two distinguishing characteristics. This was the first Section of substantial proportions to be ge...

That was a typical instance of the kind of accident that was happening, and there were about three "Ford casualties" every day. Thanks to the simplicity of the mechanism of the...

In this hospital--which is one of the best--they need very badly beds for men who have had their vertebræ broken. These men live from two to six months in a frame on their backs...

On Thursday, the 22d, we had a quiet day. In the evening several of us stepped across to the house where Smith and Ogilvie lived, to have a little bread and cheese before turnin...

Alsace has been for forty years German territory. For forty years young Alsatians have been forced to learn German in the schools, to serve in the German army, to be links in th...

This place was popular among the Americans, at first, at least, before the Germans captured a colonel with telltale maps upon his person, and their guns began to find and make u...

Nowhere else are foreign soldiers upon German soil. Nowhere else, from Ypres to Belfort, do the lines face each other in a mountain range of commanding summits and ever-visible...

So April, 1916, finds the three old Sections still on duty at the front, the fourth already making its reputation there, and a fifth being fitted out. Confidence has been gained...

The Section we relieved told us what to expect. It began strong. The first night the fellows worked through a gas attack. I was off duty and missed out on one disagreeable exper...

The outlying country was full of lowlands and streams which in many places during the hard rains covered the roads to such a depth that the usual type of French cars could not o...

Our trip has been full of touching and appealing impressions crowding one upon the other. As our picturesque convoy ran through the little villages, and we stopped here and ther...

I cannot possibly praise too highly the courage and devotion manifested by the members of the Section, and I should be obliged to you if you would kindly transmit to them my con...

John R. Abbott July'16 Andover, Mass. 2 Eustace L. Adams Feb.'15 June'15 Newtonville, Mass. T.C. 3 Harry Adamson Jan.'16 June'16 Pittsfield, Mass. T.C. 4 Fred Hunter All April'1...

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EDWARD VAN D. SALISBURY _Section Commander_ Sept.'14 Sept.'16 Chicago H. 2,1[2] Roswell S. Sanders Jan.'16 Newburyport, Mass. 4 Daniel Sargent Mar.'16 Wellesley, Mass. H. 3 Jame...

Volunteer automobilist Douglas MACMONAGLE of American A. S. S. No. 8: A shell having fallen in the middle of a poste de secours, he retained his self-possession, and with the ut...

ROGER M. L. BALBIANI WILLIAM M. BARBER EDWARD O. BARTLETT ROBERT BOWMAN LESLIE BUSWELL JOSHUA G. B. CAMPBELL A. GRAHAM CAREY JOHN W. CLARK EDMUND J. CURLEY BENJAMIN F. DAWSON ST...