Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attached to various divisions of the French armies and do the work of the regular military field ambulances. Since the war began the cars have been used at the battle of the Marne, at Ypres during the great second battle, and along the Yser Canal, on the Somme, at Verdun, at Hartmansweilerkopf, in Alsace and in the Balkans. Today on practically every front where the French troops are in action these cars will be found close behind the lines...
...others ready to go out as soon as the necessary drivers are obtained. One of these sections, commanded by Lovering Hill '10 who has been given a lieutenant's commission in the French army, has recently gone to Salonika after 18 months service in Alsace and in the Verdun region. A. B. Mason '08, Carleton Burr '13 and H. M. Luckley '10 are in command of units in the Verdun. Alsace and Somme sectors respectively...
...That was the situation, everything practically ready for the 'big push' which began July 1, when we were given orders to go to Verdun, on June 23. There followed a three-day trip across France, stopping the first night in the outskirts of Paris, traveling through the beautiful and historic Marne valley, camping on the banks of the river the second night and then on to Bar-le-Duc, through town after town in complete ruins as a result of the first onrush of the Germans...
...three or four days were we sent to our headquarters four miles from the town of Verdun. At that time five sections of our Field Service were working in different parts of the Verdun sector and their work has been admirably described by Mr. Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post of September 2. Our runs carried us through the outskirts of Verdun on to le Cabaret, our chief post, and occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least...
...Verdun itself is absolutely deserted save for a few important looking gendarmes. Some streets and sections are completely laid waste, others alongside are untouched. As for German prisoners I saw about 50 or 75 in all. It was great sport to see the French soldiers surrounding a German prisoner or two, drawing their knives and slashing off buttons, shoulder straps, insignia--anything for a souvenir. We could look in vain for a hungry or weak looking German to best out stories of hardships. But they looked healthy, and, above all, greatly pleased that they were headed away from the lines...