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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
    "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

    By Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert) Baukhage and Cyrus Leroy Baldridge

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1972
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      "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919 - Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert) Baukhage

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of I was there, by C. LeRoy Baldridge

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: I was there

      with the Yanks in France.

      Author: C. LeRoy Baldridge

      Release Date: May 29, 2005 [EBook #15937]

      Last updated: January 27, 2009

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK I WAS THERE ***

      Produced by David Cortesi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      Audsurade Belgium

      Nov. 11/1918

      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

      Ours the Great Adventure,

      Yours the pain to bear,

      Ours the golden service stripes,

      Yours the marks of care.

      If all the Great Adventure

      The old Earth ever knew,

      Was ours and in this little book

      'Twould still belong to you!

      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

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