"25 Weeks to ARMISTICE 100" is a World War I Armistice blog that will continue to the end of 2018, with a posting each week. My goal is to share factoids about the war and the people involved in it. Hopefully you will find the short blog posts interesting. If not, maybe the next week. Those following other pages of this site know that my uncle fought in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign and was killed in action.
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The soldiers in the banner above are members of Company D of the 347th Machine Gun Battalion of Camp Lewis. Curiously the photograph is attributed to a location in France, March 1918. However this company of the 91st did not arrive in France until July 1918. Prior to that time, only a skeleton crew of the 91st was in Europe.
In March many of them were in the camp hospital fighting mumps. Nonetheless, they are a fine looking group that did make their contribution in St Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne. My uncle is a little behind the front row on the left side, Count over four men. See the fellow with a darker complexion just to the fourth's right shoulder? That is him. I wonder how many fell out of a hospital bed to be in this photograph.
You are welcomed to subscribe to the blog. Scroll down this page to see the subscription request on the right sidebar. The first email may appear in your spam/junk folder which you can add to your safe mailing lists.
The soldiers in the banner above are members of Company D of the 347th Machine Gun Battalion of Camp Lewis. Curiously the photograph is attributed to a location in France, March 1918. However this company of the 91st did not arrive in France until July 1918. Prior to that time, only a skeleton crew of the 91st was in Europe.
In March many of them were in the camp hospital fighting mumps. Nonetheless, they are a fine looking group that did make their contribution in St Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne. My uncle is a little behind the front row on the left side, Count over four men. See the fellow with a darker complexion just to the fourth's right shoulder? That is him. I wonder how many fell out of a hospital bed to be in this photograph.
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