Linthwaite, Fred A. survey sheet - handwritten Date of Enlistment: June 23, 1917
Military Camps to which went:
* Ambulance Camp. Allentown, Pa.
* Camp Devens, Ma.
Units to which belonged:
* S.S.U. 580, United States Army Ambulance Service, attached to the French Army
Date of trip overseas: Jan. 8, 1918
Service there: Jan. 15, 1918-May 6, 1919, Battles
* Aisne defense
* Champagne-Marne defensive
* Meuse-Argonne offensive
* Oise-Aisne offensive
Date of return: May 6, 1919
Date of demobilization: May 23, 1919
Honors received: Croix de Guerre, with regimental citation NOTES World War I: The Ambulance Service (U.S. Army. Medical Department.
Office of Medical History)
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/HistoryofUSArmyMSC/chapter2.html
Mobilization and Training Camp for Medical Department Units: Camp Crane,
Allentown, PA
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/VolVII/ch03.html
U.S. Army Ambulance Corps: Camp Crane, at Allentown, PA (Ghosts of the
Gridiron)
http://home.comcast.net/~ghostsofthegridiron/Ambulance.htm
Camp Devens - World War I Cantonment - AEF Training Center (GG Archives)
http://www.gjenvick.com/Military/ArmyArchives/TrainingCenters/CampDevens/DescribedAndPhotographed/1918/index.html#axzz2bre2tWUV
Green, Marty. "Harvard History: The 1918 Flu Epidemic Hit Camp Devens
Hard." (The Harvard Press, July 6, 2012)
http://www.harvardpress.com/Home/AllArticles/tabid/2190/ID/8836/Harvard_History_1918_flu_epidemic_hit_Camp_Devens_hard.aspx
SSU 580. In The History of the United States Ambulance Service, 1917-1918-
1919. Appendix C: Section Reviews, Service in France, continued)
http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Smucker/usaac09.html |
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