memoir

The wanderings of a temporary warrior

Alban F. L Bacon, 1922

Named on the page for Battle of Belleau Wood.

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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.

1–26 June 1918

Battle of Belleau Wood

THE ATTACK ON VAUX-VRAUCOURT
Vaux-Vraucourt, up to the outskirts of which our advance had brought the line.

THE ATTACK ON VAUX-VRAUCOURT
The battalion had done all that it had been called on to do. In all its French fighting it had some six periods of attack, ranging from four to ten days each in duration. Its casualties in the Vaux operations were the third highest, and the difficulties it encountered were, in some respects, as great as any in the whole series.

THE ATTACK ON THE HINDENBURG LINE
We, however, marched towards nightfall, and arrived at ruined Bapaume; which had been re-taken, following the capture of Vaux, during our week of " rest," and a few walls were all that remained.

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