A.S. Green's service in WW I

A.S. Green's WW-I Dog Tags

Albert Sidney Green's World War I account.

On January 20, 1918 I resigned teaching of Providence School, to get myself ready for army duty, and on May 28^th 1918 I was inducted into the Army. (I) started for Camp Pike, Arkansas, on May 29^th. (and was) there at camp until the later part of July, then sailed from Hoboken, N.J., on Aug. 3^rd on the captured ship Voterland. 15,800 (were) on board the ship. Arrived in Brest, France, on Aug 11, 1918. Moved on to the front lines in the “Argone Woods” the night of Oct 26^th. I was buried by shell fire on Nov 4^th. My Co, 60^th Inf, lost 42 men our of 104 in the company on Nov 4^th. We moved on up I was looking strait at the (enemy) on Nov 11, at 11 O'Clock when it was all over. I was transferred to Machine Co. 165^th on Sunday Nov 17^th 1918 and hiked from (the) “Argonne Forest” to Remagen Germany on the Rhine River doing guard duty. Spent my 24^th birthday at Remagen. I did guard duty on the Rhine River until April 1919. Loaded on ship at Brest, France, sailed to U.S.A. arriving at Hoboken, N.J. In May 1919. Receiving my discharge on May 23^rd 1919 at Hatisburg, arriving home at Booneville on May 24, 1919.

My son “Sidney Fay Green” and his mother met me at Camp Shelby, Miss. My first time to see my son.

(Written by A.S. Green, about 1975, at the request of his grandson Ronnie Burrage)

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( Picture of training company ) These men were given six weeks training and shipped to France. At least 42 of them did not return.

(Download a full size picture of dog tags) Note the MG added to the dog tags, indicating he was given Machine Gun training. After the Armistice, he was assigned guard duty on the Rhine River for 6 months.