Water for Soldiers: New England Villages Answer the Call in World War I Uniforms as Wilfred Owen

as Wilfred Owen

In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20

the leader of a British patrol is shot and killed

the United States established the Silver Star citation

including Eisenhower

Water for Soldiers: New England Villages Answer the Call in World War I Uniforms as Wilfred OwenDescription by Shirley Lawton Houde Paperback When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the Army immediately authorized the construction of 16 cantonments across the country to be used for training new recruits. Camp Devens, the first of these bases to be established, was the point of induction and training of recruits from New England and eastern New York. The Army urged citizens living near Camp Devens and other new cantonments