Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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JOYCE KILMERS GRAVE IN FRANCEKilmers grave is the one at the right later came men of the Graves Registration Service to put upa small wooden cross with an aluminum name plate, fiveinches long by two and a half inches wide. A level lawnwas usually chosen for a cemetery, each grave being six and 244 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES three-quarters feet long and two feet wide, the graves onefoot apart, wdth two rows, head to head, with a forty-inchpath between rows. When there were 800 graves in a ceme-tery, a flagstaff was provided.^^ Suggestions were made thatthese consecrated spots should be made less like cemeteries
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i:) FRtN^H PICTORIAL SERVICE. QUENTIX ROOSEVELTS GRAVE IX FRANCE and more like beautiful gardens, w^ith flowers, fountains andpleasant resting-places, in which Americans whose boys sleptin the land they helped to save might linger with great tran-quillity, and a sense of more profound peace, than in any nec-ropolis, however stately. Such memorial grounds might becomethe best beloved shrines among the holy places of the world.At Romagne, in the Argonne, a large cemetery was laid out.For four months, almost to a day, the Germans had knowm,with rare exception, only forward movements, with capturesof prisoners, thousands of guns, and piles of equipment.Now their enemies had turned upon them wdth lightningquickness and a smiting power of attack against which they 10 Cable dispatch from Raymond (i. Carroll to The Sun (Xew York). 245 ON THE WESTERN FRONT could not stand up. The German offensive that was to com-pel peace had become an Allied offensive seeking- a decisionin what the German ran

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