World War I Buffs, this is a interesting read. daily diary of a bugler in the trenchs

[OutHouse]

My Grandfather was in WWI, assigned to the 112th supply company 28th division. Ive been absorbed in researching his unit and here he was in France. I am having two large photos. 9 inches high and 34 inches long restored that is costing me a lot of money. if i don't get them restored they will not last much longer and will be gone forever. 1 is of camp hancock in Georgia. he has marked his tent and its a fascinating picture to look at because you see the horse drawn wagons and model T's parked in front of the officers tents.

anyway i found this website about a bugler. he kept a daily dairy during his whole army experience. anyway i thought i would share my find with other WWI buffs. my grand father was a bugler as well and i still have his uniform, the sleeves have PFC stripes with a bugle in the middle.

this guy was in the same regiment as my grand father, since both were buglers there is a very strong chance he knew my grandfather. sadly there is no mention of it in this diary but he does say he practices with other buglers out in the woods.

my grand father died in 74 i was 6 and i bearly remember him. my mom told me he was gassed twice just like this guy, luckily my grandfather lived.

these are the battles listed on his discharge papers.
5th german offensive
Ad on Ourcq. Vesle
Muese-argone
Theacort


http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/desilvey.htm



i can not believe they trained the soldiers in the use of the gas mask in a room filled with chlorine gas.... thats some hard core shit right there.

 

[Crono]

This saddened me:

Received word of the baby's death and burial in a letter from May. Very heartbroken and home sick. Walked Co. Street all night long. Some one in the Co. Received the telegram and destroyed it in order to get even.


Sunday, March 17th
Very lonesome and homesick. Couldn't forget the dirty trick played on me by one of the officers of my Co. Can't get the baby out of my mind. Wrote to Mother, Father & May lamenting over the baby's death. And waiting for the time to get revenge.


Monday, March 18th
Baby still on my mind. Despondent over the ill fortune of myself and over the illness of my wife, also of the death of W.W. D. Jr.

 

[OutHouse]

This saddened me:

yea its fucked up the army would not give him a week or so to go home and to take care of him and his wife.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

this is a fantastic read

Tuesday, July 23rd

Were told we had a twenty kilo hike looking us in the face. Started out up and down the hills of the great Salient, through fields, in and out of shell holes, and to make life worth living, raining to beat the band. Reached our destination and went into camp on a steep hillside. Slept with Jocko. Awoke in the A.M. to find a Austrian 77 dud lying between the feet of Jocko and I.

 

[bfdd]

Thanks for the share, love WW1 stuff. It blows my mind that the world was able to have a second World War after the first.

 

[OutHouse]

this is a fantastic read

glad you liked it as much as I did.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

war truely is hell

Sunday, Sept. 29th

Told we were to be relieved. Out Battalion went into the fight with 1929 men; came back with 49 men. Relieved and replaced by the 40th Division. Put in reserve in Death Valley where we were shot off wholesale. Jimmy Borbridge lost his legs here. Jim Summerton and Earl Small each lost an Arm. In twenty-one minutes we had 168 men killed outright and 328 wounded. This place earned the name of Death Valley.

 

[JTsyo]

Here I thought it was about a burglar and was thinking, the trenches would be dumb place to steal from.

 

[Feneant2]

Thanks, I bookmarked it to read later. I did a report in university on the diary of a medic during world war II and it was something else to read.

 

[Mxylplyx]

Actually making it home to only die shortly after...what a bummer. I could only imagine the feeling of arriving back in the U.S. after you had already written yourself off for dead. I will never know such a feeling of exhilaration.

 

[Kelvrick]

I must have missed it. Did he ever get revenge for whoever delayed his telegram?

 

[waggy]

I must have missed it. Did he ever get revenge for whoever delayed his telegram?

i hope the bastard "accidently" took a bullet to the back of the head..

 

[lxskllr]

Thanks OP. Here's a .pdf for anyone interested. It was quick and dirty, so I make no guarantees on formatting, but it should be easier to carry around for those that desire to...

http://ubuntuone.com/5yL3WxKz284eOG5hEI5huC

 

[OutHouse]

whats amazing and the most criminal action on both sides is that up until 11am on the last day of the war both sides shelled the living shit out of each other. thousands died that day for no reason at all.

The Armistice was agreed at 5 a.m. on 11 November, to come into effect at 11 a.m.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

yea its fucked up the army would not give him a week or so to go home and to take care of him and his wife.

This is WW1. By the time he got the letter and would have gotten home, it would literally be a month or 2 later. Mail went by ship, so did soilders. It's not like today where they can literally be home in 48 hours.

 

[OutHouse]

This is WW1. By the time he got the letter and would have gotten home, it would literally be a month or 2 later. Mail went by ship, so did soilders. It's not like today where they can literally be home in 48 hours.

he was in Georgia at camp Hancock training. it was a telegram sent the day of the babys death 7 days prior to him finding out by a letter from his wife but some asshole destroyed the telegram or revenge about something not mentioned.

a train trip from GA to PA is what 12 hours?

please read the diary before commenting further.

Saturday, Mar 9th

Entire Division arranged early and passed in Review before Sec. Of State Lansing and Major Gen. Muir. Lansing expressed great satisfaction in the efficiency of the 28th Division or Penna. National Guard. My son W.W. Jr. Died. Did not receive word of it.

Saturday, March 16th

Received word of the baby's death and burial in a letter from May. Very heartbroken and home sick. Walked Co. Street all night long. Some one in the Co. Received the telegram and destroyed it in order to get even.

 

[amish]

Some one in the Co. Received the telegram and destroyed it in order to get even. [/I]

ugh, i just wish we knew what it was that made the guy "get even". overall it was a great read. the part where he mentions that he crawled back through something squishy and later finding his hand covered in blood was fucked up.

 

[bearxor]

Man, WW1 was hell. It's amazing to just see the contrast between how WW1 was fought and how WW2 was fought.

 

[OutHouse]

Man, WW1 was hell. It's amazing to just see the contrast between how WW1 was fought and how WW2 was fought.

because all the leaders and generals of WWII were junior officers who experienced the horrors of trench warfare and made sure WWII never turned into a trench war.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Outhouse, thanks for this link!!!

I'm not say I'm qualified to consider myself a WWI buff, but I am interested in learning. I've been reading "The Somme" 600 something page book covering the long and devastatingly costly battle of the Somme. It's insane how wave after wave of brave men ran "over the top" (or in many cases, walked directly straight into the face of death, looking death in the eye and never turning back.)

 

[highland145]

:thumbsup:

 

[Ns1]

Outhouse, thanks for this link!!!

I'm not say I'm qualified to consider myself a WWI buff, but I am interested in learning. I've been reading "The Somme" 600 something page book covering the long and devastatingly costly battle of the Somme. It's insane how wave after wave of brave men ran "over the top" (or in many cases, walked directly straight into the face of death, looking death in the eye and never turning back.)

The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the war; by the time fighting paused in late autumn 1916 the forces involved had suffered more than 1 million casualties, making it one of the bloodiest military operations ever recorded.

O_O

 

[zinfamous]

marked

:thumbsup:

 

[The Boston Dangler]

The First World War

i give this program an ultra-rare 10/10. the assassination of franz ferdinand has maximum comedy/tragedy value, and i believe all color in the program is authentic.

 

[OutHouse]

i believe all color in the program is authentic

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