Comments on: Marvin Hunter Taylor — journal of a WWI infantry officer

By: Nat Taylor

Nat Taylor — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:44:12 +0000

Susan, thanks for your comment! I haven’t yet posted the memoir. I have a text file of it, but it still has some typos, etc. The much longer project is going through the handwritten journal books and letters, and preparing a typescript of them.

By: MilesElder

MilesElder — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:58:58 +0000

My name is Susan Elder Vallejo. My grandfather Miles Macon Elder served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France WW1. I am looking forward to reading the memoir of Marvin Hunter Taylor. Where is it posted? My grandfather fought 1916 to 1918. In 1927 he returned to Verdun for a ceremony in which the town Mayor of Vernon presented medals to the american forces in attendance who had fought to save his town 10 yrs earlier. I would like to hear from you.
vallejo@tampabay.rr.com
Susan Elder Vallejo, Bradenton Florida

By: a genealogist’s sketchbook › of wars and rumours of wars

a genealogist’s sketchbook › of wars and rumours of wars — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:56:43 +0000

[...] over Verdun from February to December of 1916. My grandfather was in later action around Verdun (there’s a medal to show for it), but that was in 1918, once the Americans had finally arrived. By then the heroic and costly [...]