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Hist Mss 1-360
Roy Buchanan Collection
Manuscripts, circa 1966
contained in 1 Box (Green)

Introduction

This manuscript was transferred to the Archives of the Mennonite Church in October 1966 by Roy Buchanan, Eureka, Illinois. As far as it is known, this manuscript has not been published.

Inventory

Manuscript: [World War I Experience, 1917-1918] (Circa 1950, 125 pages)
Preface
Chapter I: How I Became a Mennonite
Chapter II: Going to Camp
Chapter III: First Army Camp Experience
Chapter IV: Transferred to the Remount Depot
Chapter V: Taken to the Guard-House
Chapter VI: Other Guard-House Experiences
Chapter VII: Cooking and Eating Outside
Chapter VIII: The Dark Hour
Chapter IX: Released from the Guard-House
Chapter X: From the Remount Depot to the 163rd Depot Bridge
Chapter XI: First Experiences in the Depot Brigade
Chapter XII: The Two Spies
Chapter XIII: Second Guard-House Experience
Chapter XIV: Interviewed by the Board of Inquiry
Chapter XV: To Fort Leavenworth
Chapter XVI: To Fort Riley, and Last Days of Army Camp Experiences

Manuscript: "Experience in Relief and Reconstruction Service During and following World War One, 1918-1919." (Circa 1950; 149 pages)

Chapter I: From a Military Training Camp to a Relief Unit
Chapter II: In Waiting Before Going to France
Chapter III: Trip to France
Chapter IV: Paris, The Hub
Chapter V: Some Bits of History
Chapter VI: At Ornans
Chapter VII: A Trip into the Juras
Chapter VIII: Discharged from the Army
Chapter IX: From Ornans to the Verduin Sector
Chapter X: At Grange-Le-Compte
Chapter XI: A Trip to Verdun and Over Battle Fields
Chapter XII: Little George
Chapter XIII: At Aubreville and Avocourt
Chapter XIV: Diary of One Week
Chapter XV: A Trip to the Alps Mountains
Chapter XVI: A Trip to Germany and other Places
Chapter XVII: Last Days in France, and Back to America



March 15, 2004 / Reformatted by Kathryn Yoder
August 6, 2001 / Update by Monica Zimmerman
March 19, 2001 / Typed into computer and posted on web by Erin Wilson
August 3, 1995 / Processed by Dennis Stoesz
File: "Hm1-360.doc"
Archives of the Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana

 

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