Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Field and staff officers are assigned to battalions as follows...
...official unit of the American Ambulance Field Service, composed of members and graduates of the University, will leave New York on June 2. This unit will be known as the Harvard unit, and will keep its identify during the six months' period it is in service at the front...
...pursuance of an order from the War Department, Battery C, 1st Massachusetts Field Artillery, N. G., is recruiting new men to bring the enrolment up to war strength. Only a small number of vacancies remain. This battery was organized only a short time ago. It is officered by former members of Battery A, and contains, like that organization, many graduates and undergraduates of the University. It is expected that these batteries will be called out very soon. Information may be obtained from C. E. Mead 2L, Wadsworth 13, any afternoon. Men who intend to enlist are to report...
...game of war has started on Soldiers Field for fair. The work of drill, squads-right and platoons-left-front-into-line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies...
Thirty members of the University are scheduled to sail from New York today for France, to serve in the American Ambulance Field Service. These men will go to Bordeaux on the steamer Chicago of the French Line, the same ship that carried the contingent from the University last February. The sailing of the boat has been held over since last Saturday. Beside the men from the University, the Chicago will take two units from the University of California, one from the University of Illinois, one from the Washington University of St. Louis, and 80 other men from colleges and universities...