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Chronology of Diaries
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1918 March 29 |
Embarkation from Newport News, Virginia by
steamer
DeKalb , camouflaged in
green, buff, and yellow patches, formally German
Prinz Eitel Fredrick ,
three aero squadrans (648th, 649th, 650th)
aboard
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1918 April 3 |
At sea, organize life-boat crews and assign
soldiers to stations
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1918 April 10 |
Death and sea burial of Sgt. Mulligan |
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1918 April 14-19 |
Landed in St. Nazaire-Laire, France; describes
barracks, parts of city, discusses army and personal
activities
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1918 April 20- 28 |
Orders to move to Romorantin; prepare for travel
and garrison rations; train ride; setting up new camp;
describes barracks and camp as well as
Is-sur-Tille
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1918 May 2 |
On way to Base Hospital in Dijon, describes
countryside and hospital setting
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1918 June 6-23 |
Convalescing in Vichy; discusses his
activities
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1918 June 19 |
Trip to Cusset-sur-Allier by trainway (street
railway)
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1918 June 26-July 2 |
On duty again in Is-sur-Tille; appointed
commander of service personnel; anxious to organize a
new squadron out of the 649th detail and three other
detachments
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1918 July 3-9 |
Change in duty; transfer to shipping; describes
life there
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1918 July 12 |
Describes the convoy of two trucks to
Colombes-les-Belles
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1918 July 14 |
Discusses a morning trip to Is-sur-Tille and and
afternoon trip to Dijon, and describes the cities during
a holiday celebration
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1918 July 20 |
Expresses a desire to have a chance to do
something more exciting, to get into real danger
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1918 July 23 |
News of Germans being driven back; death of
Quentin Roosevelt and his German burial with honors;
heavy shipping
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1918 July 26 |
Brief discourse on being Jewish and his theory of
the proper definition of 'Jew'
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1918 July 28-29 |
Paris out of danger; shipments to Paris |
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1918 August 4 |
Great interest in bulletins with French
communique
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1918 August 6 |
Feeling effect of removal of tool department;
Francis B. Sayre, President Woodrow Wilson's son-in-
law, at mess table
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1918 November 8 |
Travels to front with convoy, where he makes a
statement about the horrors: "War reads heroic in the
newspaper and in the list of citations, but a 'close-up'
of it is infinitely disgusting and repulsive. Mangled
men, human filth, stench, vermin, disease--all these
things meet the eye and the mind loses sight for the
moment at the principles for which these things must
be"
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1918 November 11 |
Awaiting Armistice to be signed; feelings about
the war being over--being disconnected and now feeling
relief; celebrations--Allies flags flying in the
streets, crowds singing "Marseillaise," "Star Spangled
Banner" and other favorites
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1918 November 20 |
Third American Army formed and will compose Army
of Occupation; American officers hosted dinner for
French officers, using the Foyer du Soldat Camp
President Wilsons-- description
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1918 November 23 |
Paris, statue of Strasbourg freed from its
"dolorous funeral wreath and aflame with tricolor";
statute of Lille gay with colors and floral wreaths;
discussion of Army and promotions; visit to University
of Virginia room at University Union and sees Lewis D.
Crenshaw of Richmond in charge; description of
celebrations, mentions Fete of St. Catherine
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1918 November 25 |
Paris celebrations on Thanksgiving holiday;
describes Rue Royale--the royal cortege passing by with
the King of England George V
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1918 December 1 |
Word from United States about Armistice Day,
November 11
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1918 December 4 |
View on President Woodrow Wilson's trip to
Europe, his presence at the peace conference
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1918 December 7 |
Received promotion papers with regret |
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1918 December 14 |
City celebrating President Wilson's arrival at
Paris
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1918 December 15 |
Several hundred repatriated French and Belgian
prisoners arrive at the station in Dijon
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1919 January 6 |
Wrote to John Stewart Bryan of
News Leader asking for a
job at Peace Conference in Paris
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1919 January 12 |
Depot clean, winding up records of shipping, in
Dijon now
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1919 February 3 |
Description of countryside during train ride to
Rome, Italy; overnight in Turin
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1919 February 5 |
Arrives in Rome, and is directed to Hotel Milano;
visits the Coliseum, Catacombs of St. Collestus, the
Baths of Caracalla, and the Appian Way, relating these
scenes to historical event
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1919 February 6 |
Calls on Col. H. W. Anderson, director of Red
Cross Balkan Mission, and is offered a job; tour to St.
Paul's and Broken Bridge
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1919 February 7 |
Tour of St. Peter's Church, Sistine Chapel,
galleries of the Vatican, Corso Emmanulo I
memorial
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1919 February 8 |
Arrives in Naples, Italy; tour the Old Tower,
Museum rich on relics of Pompeii, Castle, Vesuvius,
Opera and Madam Butterfly
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1919 February 11 |
Visits Borghese Gallery and sees Bernini
marbles
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1919 February 12 |
Arrives in Florence, Italy, describes as
picturesque; visits Ponte Vecchio and Theatre
Verdi
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1919 February 13 |
Visits Royal Palace and Pitti Gallery |
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1919 February 14 |
Walks across "1,000 bridges to St. Mark's"--many
officers from France in Venice, Italy; visits Cathedral,
Doge's Palace, "Bridges of Sighs," rides gondola through
Grand Canal, sees Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship and
American destroyer
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1919 February 15 |
Arrives in Milan, Italy; visits Cathedral (Gothic
church)
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1919 February 16 |
Visits Royal Armory in Turin, Italy |
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1919 February 17 |
Arrives in Dijon, France and leaves for
Is-sur-Tille
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1919 February 20 |
Visits Red Cross headquarters in Paris, France
and turns over Col. H. W. Anderson's letter of
recommendation to Major Pierce, who writes a letter to
GHQ requesting Jaffé's release
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1919 February 23 |
Orders to go to St. Nazaire, set up camp
(C-2)
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1919 February 26 |
Reports at Effects Depot, Quarter Master Corps
(re casualities' effects, etc.), and describes
tasks
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1919 March 23 |
Summary of last four weeks, still awaiting
release, discouraged by beauracracy red tape, thinking
of asking to be put a sailing list for the United
States, dislikes idea of returning to newpaper work;
self-evaluation; Balkan mission a chance to do some
writing
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1919 March 27 |
Receives orders from GHQ signed by General
Pershing to report to C.O. discharge camp, St.
Aignon
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1919 March 29 |
Last day as a soldier of the U.S. Army;
"Honorably Discharged"
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1919 March 30 |
Leaves for Paris, France via Tours; describes
Chateau country, mentions terraced vineyards
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1919 March 31 |
Visits Red Cross for orders to go to
Balkans
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1919 April 1 |
Sees Captain Wishard, receives paperwork; [Marie]
Queen of Roumania visits
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1919 April 5 |
Disappointment in Peace Conference progress by
countries
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1919 April 8 |
Travels to Rome, Italy; Headquarters of Balkan
Commission moved to Salonica (Thessaloncia)
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1919 April 9 |
Visits American Consulate to get passport
stamped, to Embassy for another stamp, and back to the
Consultate for another stamp; visits Greek, Serbian, and
Roumanian Embassies
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1919 April 10 |
Train leaves Rome; "Rome is in the grip of a
strike"--inflammatory posters calling upon working class
to protest against "the manner in which they are being
despoiled of the fruits of victory"; authorities ask Red
Cross to refrain from using passenger cars
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1919 April 11 |
Arrives in Taranto, Italy, boards
S.S. Campinas |
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1919 April 12 |
Sails for Itea, Greece; seasickness among
men
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1919 April 13 |
Describes Greek coast and Itea |
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1919 April 14 |
Describes countryside and people during motor
truck ride to Bralo, Greece
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1919 April 15 |
Passes Mt. Olympus, arrives at Salonica, Greece
and is taken to Red Cross Headquarters by Lt. Col.
Farnum of Serbian Commission
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1919 April 17 |
Col. H. W. Anderson wants him to go to Serbia and
Montenegro; visits Turkish quarters in Salonica and
describes area and Turks, mentioning differences in
Turks and Jews
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1919 April 21-22 |
Travels to Lake Doiran--barren countryside with
grenades, ammunition, helmets, horses', skeletons, and
scrap--"no man's land"; Major Perkins tells of travel in
Russia as guest of Kerensky
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1919 April 23 |
Arrives at Gevgelija, Serbia [Yugoslavia]--a mass
of ruins, three years in war zone, German and
Bulgar[ian]s carried off everything; mission
trying to help victims, much illness
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1919 April 24 |
Prefect holds Serbian dinner for Red Cross
officers; men "farmed out among townspeople"
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1919 April 25 |
Arrives at
Kavadar[ci] ,
Yugoslavia--overwhelmingly Turkish and white minaret,
Red Cross house in old Turkish habitation; tuberculosis
is problem; describes trip to Monastir, mentioning
roads, tunnels, and railways built by Germans, wrecked
German camps; describes Easter celebration at
Prilep
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1919 April 26 |
Visits American Red Cross Hospital operated by
Drs. Keyes and Flood, in Monastir, Serbia; describes
fire-shelled city; discusses a dance attended by Drs.
Keyes and Flood, Col. Hume, Major Perkins, Lt. Vinton,
Capt. Adams, Miss Saxton, Miss Mountain, Lt. Austin, and
Lt. Pfotzer, with a description of some of the
participants
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1919 April 28 |
Interviews with Prefect of Monastir, getting a
good idea of social, economic, industrial, and food
conditions in southern Serbia; mentions Mary Heaton
Vorse writing for the Balkan Commission; talk of
Adriatic crisis
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1919 April 29 |
Visits market at Monastir--sees women selling
Macedonian costumes; visits Jewish [boys] school and
finds it clean on inspection; mentions Mary Heaton
Vorse
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1919 April 30 |
Arrives at Gostivar, Yugoslavia and meets Lt. T.
B. Reed
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1919 May 1 |
Describes Red Cross House; hospital treats
surgical cases, dispensary treats medical cases, much
tuberculosis
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1919 May 2 |
Visits Vardar, Skoplje, Yugoslavia, an old
Turkish school; mentions Edwin A. Schell, former
president of Iowa Wesleyan University
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1919 May 4 |
Leaves Skoplje for Vranja; stays at Scottish
Women's Hospital
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1919 May 5 |
Inspection of hospital reveals many cases of
typhus and gangrene of extremities due to the illness,
but very clean and efficient hospital; inspection of
orphanage operated by Red Cross reveals crowed but clean
conditions
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1919 May 6 |
Arrives at Leskovatz, Serbia [Yugoslavia]; visits
hospital for Bulgarian prisoners of war, describes care,
conditions, etc.
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1919 May 8- 14 |
Stays in Pirot, Yugoslavia--visits famous Pirot
rug industry; describes a Serbian wedding on the 11th,
where the brides' parents were not permitted in church;
read story [
Polished Ebony ] by
Octavus Roy Cohen
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1919 May 15 |
Arrives at Cuprija, Yugoslavia where there is a
Red Cross Hospital with one doctor, two nurses, and a
field worker (Dr. Thomas A. Lowe, Catherine Williams,
Inez Gilliland, and Capt. S. W. Nevin)
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1919 May 17 |
Describes Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and gives
impressions
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1919 May 20 |
Visits "Serbian government propaganda bureau,"
learns about government's agarian reform projects;
visits Skampchina or parliament and describes physical
and working aspects
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1919 May 23 |
Visits Red Cross Headquarters in Sarajevo,
Yugoslavia; describes principle mosque, which is
attended only by men; describes Sarajevo
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1919 May 26 |
Describes trip to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
up the coastal mountainside; inspects warehouse, food
distribution and hospital; describes trip to Podgorica,
visits hospital
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1919 May 27 |
Describes trip to Niksic--sees armed Montenegro
bands who are "hunting the bandits who have been robbing
people," explains different factions; inspects and
describes Niksic's hospital, poor house, and warehouse;
arrives at Podgorica again
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1919 May 29 |
Arrives at Kolachin, Yugoslavia and inspects Red
Cross hospital and dispensary
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1919 May 30 |
Investigating trip in region of Berane where it
is proposed to establish a Red Cross stat
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1919 May 30 |
Describes native funeral between Kolachin and
Podgorica
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1919 June 2-3 |
Arrives at Scutari, Albania and drives to Red
Cross headquarters, describes conditions at hospital and
dispensary; visits and describes the dispensary, dental
clinic, and sewing room on the 3rd
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1919 June 4 |
Describes food distribution and a bazaar |
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1919 June 5 |
Describes Scutari, Albania |
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1919 June 7 |
Describes travel from Scutari to Tirana,
Albania
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1919 June 8 |
Visits and describes a fakirs' service at a
little mosque
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1919 April-June |
Expense Account to Serbia |