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Summer of 1917 -- Autumn of 1917 -- Winter of 1917-1918 -- Spring of 1918 -- Late spring and summer of 1918: the Ludendorff Offensive -- Epilogue: Final letters -- Glossary of terms.;This volume details Avery Royce Wolfs stream of letters describing the experience of frontline combat. It includes comments on strategy and the countries he entered as well as the Allies prospects for success all while he was a volunteer ambulance driver with the French Army within the Verdun sector. Wolf reports his day-to-day perceptions, analytical, and emotional in turn.

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Published in the United States of America and Great Britain in 2009 by

CASEMATE

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Copyright 2009 William C. Harvey and Eric T. Harvey

ISBN 978-1-932033-94-6

eISBN 978-1-61200-0282

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Acknowledgments

Katherine Calabria Harvey generously provided the materials for this volume, and we are equally indebted for her unstinting support and encouragement. We also wish to thank Jane Nearing of the Richardson, Texas, Public Library Research Section for her invaluable assistance, William L. Foley for additional materials from the archives of the William L. Foley Collection, and to Rita P. Harvey for technical assistance.

Enlistment and discharge papers Afterword More than 4 million men died on the - photo 4

Enlistment and discharge papers

Afterword

More than 4 million men died on the Western Front in the First World War out of a total of 15 million casualties suffered by both Allies and the Central Powers. One out of every six men who served in the war was a fatality.

The Versailles Convention met in Paris in January 1919, barely two months after the general armistice declared on November 11, 1918. The Treaty of Versailles would prove to be only a temporary truce that endured barely a generation prior to the Second World War.

Avery Royce Wolfe returned to the United States in May 1919, almost two years after his departure to join the voluntary ambulance service. He had enlisted for the duration of the conflict. On his discharge in May 1919 he returned to the United States and completed his course in mechanical engineering at Lafayette College. He married Florence Braithwaite, a book publishing editor in New York. The couple never had children. Wolfe would continue his personal journals for the rest of his life. After a long and successful career in the mining industry he died from cancer in Tucson, Arizona in 1977. He left an enduring legacy of service to his country.

Bibliography and Reference Material

Ayres, Leonard P. The War With Germany: A Statistical Summary (Washington, 1919).

William L. Foley Collection, American Volunteer Ambulance Drivers in World War I: 19141918 (Hamden, CT, 2007).

Hansen, Arlen J. Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War, August 1914September 1918 (New York: Arcadia Publishing, 1996).

Hart, B.H. Liddell, The War in Outline: 191419 (New York: Random House, 1936).

History of the American Field Service in France, as Told by Its Members (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920)

Heyman Neil M., Daily Life in World War One (Westport, CT).

Shermer, David. World War I (Secaucus, NJ: Derby Books, 1975).

Smucker, John R. Jr. The History of the United States Army Ambulance Service, 191719181919 (United States Army Ambulance Service Association, 1967).

Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1962).

Tuchman, Barbara W. The Proud Tower (New York: Macmillan, 1966).

Dedication

In memory of Avery Royce Wolfe,

18981977,

a patriot and soldier who left an enduring legacy of military service.

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Epilogue

Final Letters

24 Aout 1918

My Dear Mother,

Quite unexpectedly I was permitted to go on permission. I have just arrived in Paris where I expect to spend a few days. OBrien, our top sergeant, is with me and we expect to have quite a pleasant furlough. He is an older man than myself, about thirty-eight, and he was in the coal business at Salt Lake City before coming over. It has been unusually hot the last few days but we were lucky in having it rain this morning, so our five hour trip to Paris was not so uncomfortable as it might have been.

Everybody here is enthusiastic over the brilliant success of our troops. After the last fracas things have been rather quiet in our sector but we hope to see some more action soon.

I think I told you that the section has won a Croix de Guerre with a palm. We are all very proud to receive this distinction but I wouldnt want to go through what we did again to win another palm.

The mail has been very tardy of late but I hope there will be lots of letters from you waiting for me when I rejoin the section. Any others dont count as you are the only person I am writing to now. I hope Milton keeps his head and doesnt get into this thing until he has to. This life would ruin anybody.

With love to Father, Spencer, Milt and you especially, I remain your son,

Royce

August 28th, 1918

My Dear Mother,

Still in Paris but expect to pull out tomorrow night. Have met quite a number of old friends, and am incidentally having a good time. Hope if I cable for a little gold it will not be inconvenient for you to send it. Costs quite a little to live over here.

Love to all, your loving son,

Royce

January 2nd, 1919

My Dear Mother,

Have been at Nice for the last two days. Menton was a bit dead so I ran down here to see the New Year in. Quite a success. Plan to go back to Menton tonight and leave for section Saturday. Met Milt Potter yesterday and through him learned a lot of news from Buffalo. He is certainly leading a hard life in this war. A softy job in a base hospital miles behind the line, a two month permission home and then, after a month, another permission of two weeks at Nice. I wish I had been wise and joined something like that.

It is very wonderful down here. The only thing that I have against it is that there is too much scenery that greets you at every turn of the head. The promenade on New Years afternoon was a remarkable sight. French women certainly know how to dress. Had picture taken and will send same at earliest opportunity. Hope I find some money waiting for me at the section because I am terribly low. There is a good rumor afloat that we are posting February. I hope its true.

Love to all,

Royce

January 20th, 1919

My Dear Mother,

We have moved to Mzires where we are rather comfortably installed in a private residence. Some time ago we lost our division, and since then not a car has moved. We do nothing but wait patiently for the time when we will be able to go home.

There are no definite rumors about this and no one seems to think that we will get home within the next four or five months. It all seems so utterly foolish. Here we are, not doing a thing, using up the countrys money when we really should be back there with you. I have become so discouraged that I am seriously contemplating joining the Red Cross. This would mean another six months over here, but at least would get an immediate discharge from the army.

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