$75.00 CAD
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Lot of 14 French postcards, most dating ~1919, sent by US AEF military in France back home, multiple states.
Cities: Barstow CA, Rheims, Nice, Saintes, Paris, Bordeaux, Saint Aignan...
Units: Marine Corps Supply Depot, HQ 77th Div, HQ CO 58th Inf, co 232…, 36th Division, US Navy High Power Radio Detachment, 1st Army Corps School Det. , US Naval Forces Base #20
Comments: “hiked over the battlefields this afternoon”, Soldier’s Mail, “here with the band for 2 weeks… was over to Monte Carlo…play 2 hrs a day...the YMCA is located in this building”, “St Mihiel, Verdun & the Argonne…my division (36th) move for embarkation centre May 2 & will probably go home in June”, Marines Mail, “was out to Rheims, the whole city is destroyed”, “have moved to a different hospt. this month”, “this is out towards the outskirts of town where the sandy shores screened with marshes at cat tails permit us to dip in the cool refreshing water”
