Word: chasseur
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bill Bingham "went up" to Captain--so wherever Harvard is she marches on. Four days later I was back in a well-remembered pays with a new-to-me Section. The men are a splendid bunch--the French staff congenial--and the division is a crack one. Two Chasseur Battalions and two infantry regiments--all but one of the Chasseur groups wear the Medaille Militaire fourrageres, and that group has the Croix de Guerre fourrageres, so it is quite a division. I have not been through any great excitement yet--but have hopes...
...face and timid sweet gestures--but he wore two blesse stripes, had a yellow-and-green four-ragere, several croix-de-guerres, innumerable service stripes, and embroidered on his arm the insignia that denoted he belonged to a machine gun squad. And he seemed girlish--ye gods. Also the Chasseur Captain next to me more only five wound stripes--and he looked young and happy--anticipating the next drive, I suppose. I am humble...