قراءة كتاب "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919
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"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919
“I WAS THERE”
WITH THE YANKS
ON THE WESTERN FRONT
1917-1919
BY
C. LEROY BALDRIDGE
PVT. A. E. F.
TOGETHER WITH VERSES
BY
HILMAR R. BAUKHAGE
PVT. A. E. F.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1919
Copyright, 1919
by
C. LEROY BALDRIDGE
TO OUR MOTHERS
These Sketches were made during a year's service as a camion driver with the French army in the Chemin-des-Dames sector and a year's service with the A.E.F. as an infantry private on special duty with "The Stars and Stripes," the official A.E.F. newspaper. Most of them were drawn at odd minutes during the French push of 1917 near Fort Malmaison, at loading parks and along the roadside while on truck convoy, and while on special permission to draw and paint with the French army given me by the Grand Quartier Gènèral during the time I was stationed at Soissons. The rest were drawn on American fronts from the Argonne to Belgium as my duties took me from one offensive to another.
It has been a keen regret to me that my artistic skill has been so unequal to these opportunites. The sketches do not sufficiently show war for the stupid horror I know it to be.
I hope, however, they may serve as a record of doughboy types, of the people he lived with in France, with whom he suffered and by whose side he fought.
Many appeared first in "The Stars and Stripes," "Leslie's Weekly", and "Scribner's Magazine", through the courtesy of whose editors I am now enabled to reprint them.
C. LeRoy Baldridge
Private, Am.E.F.
June 1919
I WAS THERE
Warming up the "corned willy" over the "corned heat" (solidified alcohol)
Rain overhead and mud underfoot
Baldridge Near Montfaucon / 18
Seicheprey.
America's old home sector—first trenches entirely under their own command.
THE LINE
The lids we wear—
Dungeree style...
The tin derby with winter knitted helmet...
Old "rain-in-the-face"...
The charming red-and-white effect...
Fuzzy-wuzzy...
The tank helmet...
Some managed to hang on to the old reliable...
With the French army...
With its canvas overcoat on
He used to hunt rabbits in Kentucky
