Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-02-14
NEWS FROM ACROSS THE SEAS,

Mrs. Tenant has received word
that her son Benjamin who was ex-
pecting to be home by this time. was
taken sick justeas they were ready to
leave France, and was taken to a
hospital instead of walking up the
gang plank homeward bound. Doubt
less he was much disappointed as are
his family and their friends.
Corp. Archie Glawe. Co. L, 312th
infantry, A. E. f., in writing to his
parents under date of Jan. IL, 1919,
saws, We'll, I've got a new job in the
army and it is much like the position
hau at the Continuation School, Eight
classes have been formed and we have
an enrolment of about 120. Because
of my previous experience, was
made superintendent of the whole
thing. It's my job TO see that the stu
denls are properly graded, tnat the in
structors are on the job and that the
necessary materials are obtained. In
our company of $50 men we found two
college men, six high school men and
twenty-five men who had finished the
graded school So you can see the
lack of education, about 10 per cent
are really nliterate and many of them
cannot write their own name. l had
some supper tonight; had some real
eggs, too, that bought at so centimes
each, that is 10 cents in American
money. For my breakfast lately have
bread and milk; can buy milk at
cents a cup and piece OF bread at
cents. Yesterday we were given a
sIoye for our bliiet and will be able to
get a box of coal every day. Feels
fine to have a fire and besides we can
now have toasted bread again" Jan.
18TH he wrote: For entertainment
lately we have had some acts that
have been arranged by the boys in the
different companies and some of them
have been professional actors and
some of them are real good. The
names of men interested in college
courses have been asked for and of
course / submitted by name; l don't
expect that anything will come of it,
but | really believe l would grab a
chance TO attend college over here,
especially ii my expenses were to
be paid"
A letter recently received from Don
aid NJ Dewey, dated Jan. 4th, 1919, is
postmarked Grevenbroich, a town near
Dusseldorf on the Rhine. He men
lions that his German comes handy"
and further writes as follows: The
Division (41st French Army has re-
ceived orders that they are to leave
here on the goth and march back to
Dunkilk. This does not please us as
it (marching) is the worst thing for
us now, as it will take about 40 days
and about % different stops. We are
an hours ride from Cologne and /
went down for the day last Monday.
We strolled about the town and along
the Rhine The shops there are full
OF tempting expensive things, so diff
ferent from anything we saw in
France" He gives an account of all
his service and movements since his
arrival in France on Sept. 20, 1917,
from which the following extracts are
taken: Landed at Bordeaux on Sept.
26. Arrived in Paris Sept. 27. Enlist
ed in U. S. Army Sept. 49, Assigned
to U. S. Army Ambulance Service Sec
ton Sanitaire Sept. 80. Joined section
in cantonment near Toul ION eastern
border of France) and ON Oct. this
section was attached to the 18th Di-
vision of the French Army. Here l
got first sight of the war but it was, a
quiet sector. From Oct. to Dec. 80,
1917, was in Nancy and at little
town on the Moselle river. Dec. 81,
1917, our ambulance corps was trans
ferred to 41st French Division. The
division took over quiet sector in
Lorraine at Dombasle, remaining there
till April 20, 1918. Here We had only
zone days work" which was Feb. 20,
when the division made a raid and
took 200 prisoners. Here the ambu-
lance men went to post twice a
week for "a hours. On May 80 they
took train for the West front to join
the army defending Anliens in Picardy
1.-THE German attack on Amiens failed),
and the division then went in the lines
in front of Mt KENNEL on May Is.
Our post was at Westoutre; here we
got our first taste of real war and
work We rolled our ambulances
down an almost continuously-shelled
road and back to the Hospital about
as fast as we could. lasted ten days
and then came down with the fever
and was evacuated (after a few days
in hospitaD travelling to Rennes, ST.
Nazaire, Tours Blois and back to the
saf
(near Flanders horder) where they
had been zen repos'' since about a
week after / left. Here we enjoyed
ourselves doing nothing for about a
week and then went back in the lines
June 25th. There we stayed till July
10th. Then the Division went by train
and we conveyed to Genlis. From
there we went in the lines in front Of
Yillers-C otterels for the big attack on
July 18th Here the Division attacked