JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2465
JOHN HALE CHIPMAN'S DIARY ENTRY FOR OCTOBER 8 1917
France (JFK+50) One hundred years ago, October 8, 1917, American soldier John Hale Chipman* wrote an entry in his daily diary from camp here in France.
He wrote...
"October 8, Monday, Cold
The only good thing that I can say about this weather is that it makes a great season for football. This morning I cleaned up the car a bit then cleaned up our 'shalley'.
After dinner...the Marechal (French equivalent of English marshal) ...heard me read him a French story and I had him correct my pronunciation. It all helps.
I got a letter yesterday from Howdy Cole and Max Norton (Dartmouth** class of 1919). Max said he heard I lost a leg. Well it doesn't seem so. I walk as when you first taught me how, only with surer steps."
*John Hale Chipman (1896-1972) served as a driver in the U.S. Army in France during WWI serving from June 2 1917 to November 18 1917. He was a member of the Dartmouth class of 1919.
**Dartmouth is a private Ivy League research university located in Hanover, New Hampshire.
SOURCES
"A Daily Diary of the Great War--October 8, 1917," by John Hale Chipman, Library Muse, October 8, 2014, www.sites.dartmouth.edu/
"Chipman, John Hale", The Archive, American Field Service, www.the-afs-archive.org/
Hugh A. Ball
JOHN HALE CHIPMAN'S DIARY ENTRY FOR OCTOBER 8 1917
France (JFK+50) One hundred years ago, October 8, 1917, American soldier John Hale Chipman* wrote an entry in his daily diary from camp here in France.
He wrote...
"October 8, Monday, Cold
The only good thing that I can say about this weather is that it makes a great season for football. This morning I cleaned up the car a bit then cleaned up our 'shalley'.
After dinner...the Marechal (French equivalent of English marshal) ...heard me read him a French story and I had him correct my pronunciation. It all helps.
I got a letter yesterday from Howdy Cole and Max Norton (Dartmouth** class of 1919). Max said he heard I lost a leg. Well it doesn't seem so. I walk as when you first taught me how, only with surer steps."
*John Hale Chipman (1896-1972) served as a driver in the U.S. Army in France during WWI serving from June 2 1917 to November 18 1917. He was a member of the Dartmouth class of 1919.
**Dartmouth is a private Ivy League research university located in Hanover, New Hampshire.
SOURCES
"A Daily Diary of the Great War--October 8, 1917," by John Hale Chipman, Library Muse, October 8, 2014, www.sites.dartmouth.edu/
"Chipman, John Hale", The Archive, American Field Service, www.the-afs-archive.org/
Hugh A. Ball
United States Army (1918)
Private Collection of David Ball
Private Collection of David Ball
