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The Diary of an AEF Engineer in the Great War Ebook

by William Charles Austin

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William C. Austin (1885-1954), from Oneida Castle, New York, served in Company E of the 6th Engineers of the Third Division of the US Army in the American Expeditionary Force during World War One. Austin wrote a diary, which he kept in code lest it fall into enemy hands, recording notes of daily life and hazards he and his particular friend Arthur St. Clair Jones faced while in the AEF. Engineers were responsible for building the infrastructure needed by soldiers to prosecute the war with Germany: trenches, bunkers, gun emplacements, razor wire fences, pontoon bridges, roads, and hospitals. Then, near the end of the war, when the regular infantry was wiped out in the Battle of Clare Chenes Wood near Cunel, France, the 6th Engineers would be called upon to take up arms and fight to conquer Hills 297 and 299, a battle which many of them would not survive.
Features & Details
  • Primary Category: History
  • Version Fixed-layout ebook, 44 pgs
  • Publish Date: Jun 20, 2018
  • Last edit Jun 21, 2018
  • Language English
  • Keywords Great War, AEF, Engineers, Meuse Argonne, WWI
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About the Creator
SDKeirstead
Steven D. Keirstead
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Steven Keirstead was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1965. His family lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Brevard, North Carolina. Steven’s aunt Patricia Austin and grandfather William C. Austin were professional photographers. At Rice University, Steven studied photography with Geoff Winningham and Peter T. Brown. He crafted photocollages inspired by David Hockney’s Cameraworks and simpler 35mm diptychs. Steven had a work study job for Peter Brown as a color printer. He earned a BA in 1987 (Biology and Art & Art History) followed by a BFA in 1988. Steven lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his husband, potter Lansing Wagner. Steven has shown his photography at Rice University's group show Light and Vision II during Houston Fotofest 2010, in the Fresh Works show at FlashForward Boston in 2011, in Night Becomes Us at the Art Complex Museum, and his solo show Quarries of New England has been at the Blue Hill Public Library in Maine, and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA

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