Troop I With The A.E.F.
TacomaDave May 24th, 2008
By Captain Stephen H. Sherrill
On July 29th the Troop entrained for Dommartin-en-Goele, to join the 3rd Army Corps, and detrained at Chateau Thierry on August 1st. That afternoon we marched to Gland on the other side of the Marne and went into camp there. The following morning the Troop Commander reported to Major General Bullard, the Corps Commander, at Mont St. Pierre. General Bullard asked if the men and animals were ready to proceed at once to the front and join the French cavalry, at Coulonges. When the troop was called together and told what was before them, every man let out a yell.
By the time the troop arrived in Coulonges, it was dark, the road beyond was being heavily shelled, and no one knew where the French Colonel had his P.C. On either side of the road on the march up we had passed by dead Germans and Americans, and so by the time we reached Coulonges -“ which had been evacuated by the Boche only the night before -“ we commenced to feel that we were really at the front. Continue Reading »
