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Title: Battery E in France
149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division

Author: Frederic R. Kilner

Release Date: July 8, 2010 [EBook #33119]

Language: English

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BATTERY E
IN FRANCE

149th Field Artillery
Rainbow (42nd) Division

By
FREDERIC R. KILNER

CHICAGO
1919

Copyright, 1919
by
FREDERIC R. KILNER

As we shall the more devote ourselves, in peace and in war, to the cause
of our Country's honor because they gave up their lives for its sake, so
do we dedicate this record to them, the memory and the loss of whom its
pages recall:

CAPTAIN FREDERICK W. WATERS
Coblenz, Germany, January 13, 1919

LIEUTENANT JOHN E. COWAN
Jonchery-sur-Suippes, France, July 17, 1918

CORPORAL STANLEY S. STEVENS
Camp Coetquidan, France, November 21, 1917

PRIVATE GUY O. FOSTER
Fere-en-Tardenois, France, August 10, 1918

PRIVATE GEORGE HAMA
Bulson, France, November 9, 1918

PRIVATE AARON F. PARKHURST
Chery-Chartreuse, France, August 8, 1918

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Since a battery comprises nearly two hundred men, and includes
activities of diverse kinds at different places, it is obviously
impossible for a brief narrative such as this, compiled by a single
person, to furnish complete details on all of them. To suggest the life
of the men in their various sorts of work, to trace as accurately as
possible the accomplishments of the battery on the front in France, and
to recount the outstanding incidents and events of its history, is as
much as can be claimed for these chapters. Primarily intended for the
members of the battery, these pages will, I hope, furnish an outline on
which each one can reconstruct the days of his own experiences in France
from the voluminous resources of his memory. To