314 Machine Gun Battalion History: Blue Ridge 80th Division 1919 ~ World War I ~ Western Front ~Meuse, Argonne ~American Expeditionary Force

Title: 314 Machine Gun Battalion History : Blue Ridge (80th) Division

Author: the Officers and Men of the Battalion

Description: Papered boards with pictorial illustration and division insignia on front cover. Boards are worn and soiled; corners a bit rounded; some loss of surface paper along spine. Some scattered page soiling, else interior is unmarked and generally clean. Illustrated. 77, [5] p. Placed in an archival mylar sleeve.

A detailed history of the 314th Machine Gun Battalion (80th Division) in the First World War. The narrative begins with its organization in the summer of 1917 and the training at Camp Lee, and follows its progress across the ocean, arrival at Calais in June 1918, training with the British, arrival at the Western Front, and its movements and actions in France with the First Army. Concludes with the Armistice and return to the states in June 1919. [Note: most of the soldiers in the battalion hailed from Pennsylvania and the Virginias.] Includes a multi-panel fold out group photo of the battalion (taken in May 1919 at Brest, France); rosters of officers and enlisted of Company A and B and the HQ and Medical detachments; portraits of the headquarters and companies' officers and battalion sergeants; and four maps at the rear showing the battalion's movements in France.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

Publisher: Published as a Matter of Record by the Officers and Men of the Battalion
Year: 1919

Keywords: 314th Machine Gun, regimental history, World War I, WWI, First World War, 80th Division, First Army, American Expeditionary Force, Western Front, Meuse, Argonne,