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Title: "I was there"
with the Yanks in France.

Author: C. LeRoy Baldridge

Release Date: May 29, 2005 [EBook #15937]
Last updated: January 27, 2009

Language: English

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"I was there"

with the
Yanks
in France

Sketches by

C. LeRoy Baldridge
Private, A.E.F.

[Illustration: Audsurade Belgium - Nov. 11/1918]

"I WAS THERE"

WITH THE YANKS
ON THE WESTERN FRONT
1917-1919

BY
C. LEROY BALDRIDGE
PVT. A.E.F.

TOGETHER WITH VERSES
BY
HILMAR R. BAUKHAGE
PVT. A.E.F.

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1919

Copyright, 1919
BY
C. LEROY BALDRIDGE

TO OUR MOTHERS

Ours the Great Adventure,
Yours the pain to bear,
Ours the golden service stripes,
Yours the marks of care.

If all the Great Adventure
The old Earth ever knew,
Was ours and in this little book
'Twould still belong to you!

PREFACE

These Sketches were made during a year's service as a camion driver with
the French amry in the Chemin-des-Dames sector and a year's service with
the A.E.F. as an infantry private on special duty with "The Stars and
Stripes," the official A.E.F. newspaper. Most of them were drawn at odd
minutes during the French push of 1917 near Fort Malmaison, at loading
parks and along the roadside while on truck convoy, and while on special
permission to draw and paint with the French army given me by the Grand
Quartier G