Seltzer, Solomon
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: May 29th, 1918
Military Camps to which went:
* Camp Upton
* Camp Johnson, Jacksonville, Fla.
* Newport New[s], Va.
Units to which belonged:
* Motor Supply Train 418 M.T.C. 469
Date of trip overseas: Aug. 2d, 1918
Service there: Chauffeur
Date of return: July 2d, 1919
Date of demobilization: July 3d, 1919
Honors received: St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne, Two Stars

 

 

NOTES
Camp Upton (Longwood's Journey)
http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/upton/uptonhome.htm

Camp Johnston, An Antique Army Base (Jacksonville Story)
http://www.jaxhistory.com/Jacksonville%20Story/picture%20of%20c%20johnston%20one.htm

Camp Joseph E. Johnston: Jacksonville, Florida (Florida. Department of
State. Division of Library and Information Services)
http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/4607

World War I (The Old Dominion Land Company and the Development of the City
of Newport News)
http://cdm15904.contentdm.oclc.org/ui/custom/default/collection/default/resources/custompages/odlcexhibit/index/ww1.html

Motor Transport Corps (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Transport_Corps#Wartime_operation:_1918.E2.80.931919

Supplying the Troops: The Services of Supply (Doughboy Center)
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/freidel.htm

St. Mihiel Offensive (U.S. Library of Congress. American Memory. Today
in History: September 12)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep12.html

Path of Fire: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918 (firstwordlwar.com)
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/pathoffire.htm

Note: Chauffeur, but for whom? Not just anyone rated their own chauffeur.