Graham guardian., 1919-02-14
FROM LOVER THERE"
CouvERTPUITs, FRANCE,


revised so that we can tell prac-
tically all the details of our travel
while with the American Ex-
peditionary Forces.
came across the Atlantic on
the S. s. Cashmir, an English
steel freighter, which l noticed
"a few weeks ago had the mis-
fortune of colliding with an
other transport, causing the death
of several hundred American
soldiers.
Our trip across, which occu-
pied about fourteen days, was
without any startling incidents.
Several shots were fired from
anti-submarine guns located on
the transport, at what was
thought to be submarines. If
any results were obtained, l
don't know of it, as the trans
port in the convoy kept going at
full speed in a zigzag course.
There were about seventeen ships
in the fleet and were conveyed
over by two large battle cruisers.
When we arrived in the Irish
sea, we were met by a large mos
quito feet of submarine chasers,
which were constantly darting
in and out among the ships avoid
ing all possible danger of sub
marine attacks.
The first sight of land was
Scotland's shores, and for us,
who had seen nothing but a wide
expanse of water for two long
weeks, it was a very welcome
and cheerful sight.
We arrived at Liverpool, Eng
land, at night, but did not un-
load until the afternoon of the
following day. The day of our
arrival in England was August
%, 1918.
From Liverpool we went to
Winchester. England, and spent
a couple of days at an English
rest camp. While there we Wis.,
tied many places noted for his
torical events.
From Winchester, we went to
Southampton and across the
English channel to the port of
Cherbourg, France, landing there
September l. 1918. We spent a
couple of days there at another
English rest camp.
Our trip across the channel
was also without incidents of i'm
portance, except that practically
the entire battalion got a good
dose of seasickness. We made
this trip on the Maid of Orleans,
a fast mail boat, and it sure
could split the water some, max
ing from thirty to thirty-five
miles an hour.
After resting up for several
days, we were loaded in box cars
and started on our journey thru
France. We spent about two
days on the train, passing thru
Versailles, which is not far from
Paris, and the nearest | have
been to that city.
Then we stopped at Morigny
lie Cahouet; which is northeast
of Dijon. Here we spent nine
days getting intensive training.
From Morigny LIE Cahouet, we
|.went on hobnails Under full pack
| to LIE Lournes, where we spent
part Of the night In our pur
tents, and boarded the train In
the early morning.
| Our next stop was at Heri
court, which is in the extreme
eastern portion of France. From
there we hiked to Luze, which is
only q few kilometers from Heri
court. At Luze we were billetet
| for about two weeks and agar
went into strenuous training
While at Luze, we received oul
full equipment Of Browning ma
Ichine guns and were fitted ur
| for the battle line.
| Leaving Luze at night, as VIZ
were now in a territory that wa:
in constant observation of Ger
man aeroplanes we passed thr,
Relfort and went to Bessoncourt
where we arrived in the early
morning, at $40 O'Clock. w
spent that day, which was Sun
day, October 9Th, sleeping ant
lresting up. At this place we saw
lour first airplane battle.
| From Bessoncourt, we con
tinued our journey that night
During this trip no one was al
lowed to talk loud or smoke. w,
went up into Germany, or which
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