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Collection: Directories and Documents > Pamphlets

Rhymes of a Lost Battalion Doughboy (PH 3-11)(1919) (35 pages)

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we ee. psicbaltip TS “Rhymes Well, for nine days we hiked 2 Sig Up and down hills, Lost Battalion Till finally we landed In Pointlaville. Doughboy” Why grumble now? You know it’s all over, And no doubt you're back home In the land of clover. So whenever you think ’ That things are going tough, Just remember “THAT HIKE,” boys, “THAT’S ENOUGH!” “THAT HIKE”—Is a true and accurate description of the hike that not only the Ist Battalion (or Whittlesey’s Battalion, as it was better known), but the entire 77th Division made. It took 15 days’ time and covered a distance of \ about one hundred and fifty-five miles. We were S Ne hiking on Thanksgiving day, and grub was very Nee Re short, while our kitchens followed us they hed practically little or no food at all. Our Thanksgiving breakfast consisted of from four to five stewed prunes each and hard tack—and for supper some sliced cold beef and hard-tack, with coffee—but we hiked twelve miles that day in the rain,