Breif [sic] Diary of Army Life
Title
Breif [sic] Diary of Army Life
Creator
Hickman, Thomas
Subject- LOC
Veterans -- Illinois ; World War , 1914-1918 -- Biography ; United States . Army . American Expeditionary Forces
Subject [IDA]
Military World War I
Description
Letter from Thomas Hickman to the DeWitt County War Records Committee , detailing his military service . See also DeWitt County War Service record 6-3_WWI-6-2010-57_003
Contributing Institution
Vespasian Warner Public Library District
Date
ca. 1920
Type
text
Format
1 typed page
Identifier
6-2_WWI-6-wrph-2010-49_001
Language
English
Transcript
Breif Diary of Army Life . Left Clinton , Ill . on Sept.20 . 1917 , for Camp Dodge Ia . Arrived at camp same day and was assigned to Company “M” 349th.Inf . Was in training here just 2 months and was transfered to Camp Pike , Ark . on Nov.20.1917 . Arrived in Camp Pike on Nov.22 , and was assigned to Company “L” 346th . Infantry , and with this organization I spent the rest of my army life , only while on detatched service and was then a member of the company . After about seven months when most all the privates were transfered away from us and in a few days the remainder of the division (mostly Officers and Non-Commisioned Officers) moved to Camp Dix,N.J . on June 15,1918 arriving at the camp three days later . In a few days our companies were filled with men fron the east for us to train as these were the men we were totake overseas with us. After about three months training we left Camp Dix for New York where we embarked at Peir #60 on the LLanstephen Castle (an English Liner) Within just 14 days on the water we landed at Tilbury , England on Sept.9th and after 3 days in a rest camp near Winchester England we crossed the English channel to Cherburg ,France . Three more days in a rest camp here and we were put in freight cars (Homme 40 Chaveux 8) for a three days trip to Parignac , France After a few days here I was sent to the 3rd.Corps School near Clamecy to take special training in the uses of Automatic Rifles and Pistols After one month training here I was sent back to my company and was instructor in a Regimental School of the same nature as the one I had Just attended . This work continued until about the first of Dec.1918 , when the boys couldnot take interest in the school as it was time to come home . We were put on detail work at Montoir France and was kept busy until we left St.Nazaire for home on Mar.15,1919 . We spent 16 long days on a remodeled U.S.Freighter “Alaskan” and landed at Peir #1 Hoboken,N.J . on April 1,1919 . Then to Camp Merritt N.J.for about 10 days and from there to Camp Grant ILL . and was discharged on April 17th 1919 , Thomas . S . Hickman .
Coverage- Geographical
United States -- Illinois -- DeWitt County -- Clinton
Coverage-- Temporal
1920s (1920-1929) 1910s (1910-1919)
Rights
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Collection Name
DeWitt County World War I Collection
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