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Letters from a Yankee Doughboy - Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker in World War I (Hardcover)
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Letters from a Yankee Doughboy - Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker in World War I (Hardcover)
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Letters From a Yankee Doughboy is a collection of more than 125
letters written by Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker, to his
sister, Eva, a county nurse living in Framingham, Massachusetts,
describing his everyday service in combat during World War 1. These
letters, edited by Private Maker's grandson, Major Bruce H. Norton
(USMC retired) are accompanied by 365 pocket-diary entries that
Raymond religiously kept throughout the year 1918. Private Maker
was assigned to Company C, 101st Field Signal Battalion, as a
wireman, whose duty was to repair and replace the communications
lines that were destroyed by artillery and mortar barrages during
the horrific battles that took place between German infantry forces
and the 26th "Yankee" Division of the American Expeditionary Force
(AEF), in France, from October of 1917 until the end of the war.
Assigned to the 104th Infantry Regiment, Private Maker saw the very
worst of ground warfare. He fought at the Battle of Belleau Wood;
was gassed by German artillery forces at the Battle of
Chateau-Thierry and was wounded by artillery fire outside of
Verdun, just one day before the Armistice was signed. The theme of
his letters will vividly evoke memories in the tens of thousands of
men and women who have served their country and their friends and
loved ones. As a postscript, toward the end of the war, Raymond
took the key to the North Gate of Verdun as a battlefield keepsake
and mailed it home to his sister, instructing her to "keep that
key, as someday it will be of value." On November 11, 2018 - the
centenary of Armistice Day - the author returned that key to
Thierry Hubscher, the Director of the Memorial de Verdun, to be
placed on display in that great Museum, closing a 100-year chapter
in Raymond's life.
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