Robert J. Godbey Collection - Journal, Vol. 4

**Note: Item number corresponds to page number.
 
Box Item # Description Thumbnail
2 godD0000 Cover-"The Experiences of Robert J. Godbey Army Field Clerk As A Member of the American Expeditionary Forces From February 18, 1918 to August 12, 1919 Vol. 4."
2 godD000A Handwritten notes.
2 godD0001 Text: "Y.M.C.A....two Sergeants..."

Picture (2) Top: Verdun

                 Bottom: Verdun
2 godD0002 Pictures (2) Top: Verdun Sur-Meuse

                   Bottom: Verdun La Rue Bea
2 godD0003 Pictures (2) Top: Le Grande Guerre Verdun

                   Bottom: Le Grande Guerre Verdun

 
2 godD0004 Pictures (2) Top: Verdun Sur-Meuse

                   Bottom: Verdun La Rue St. Pierre

 
2 godD0005 Pictures (3) Top: Le Grande Guerre Verdun

                   Bottom: Untitled

                   Bottom: Untitled

 
2 godD0006 Text Only: "Y.M.C.A man...Cathedral...Seminary......"

Pictures (2) Top: Le Grande Guerre Verdun

                   Bottom: Le Guerre 1914-18 Verdun
2 godD0007 Text: "...Underground City...Verdun...large fort underground...large tunnel"

Picture (1) La Guerre 1914-18 Verdun
2 godD0008 Pictures (2) Top: Verdun-Sur-Meuse

                   Bottom: Verdun-Sur-Meuse
2 godD0009 Text Only: "...fort called Citadel...underground...tunnels...troops...machine guns...smoke stacks from the vicinity of Verdun....Y.M.C.A....ammunition..."
2 godD0010 Picture (1) Center: Verdun
2 godD0011 Text Only: "...thickness of the walls...fort....Y.M.C.A....machine gun...several small cannon...two sergeants...bombarded town..."

Picture (1) Top: La Guerre 2924-28 Verdun
2 godD0012 Text Only: "...ruins of Verdun...germans...shelling...Reims..."

Pictures (2) Top: Le Grande Guerre Verdun

                  Bottom: Le Grande Guerre Verdun
2 godD0013  

Pictures (2) Top: Verdun-Sur-Meuse

                   Bottom: Le Grande Guerre Verdun
2 godD0014  

Pictures (2) Top: Verdun-Sur-Meuse

                   Bottom: Verdun-Sur-Meuse 
2 godD0015  

Pictures (2) Top: Verdun-Sur-Meuse

                   Bottom: Verdun-Sur-Meuse.

 
2 godD0016 Text: "...matches from K of C....sergeants...Y.M.C.A....back to the states...Fort Douaumont...camouflage...war..."

Picture (1) Top: Untitled.
2 godD0017 Text: "...germans...electric power plant...automobile engines...French....April 5th 2929...great guns inside the fort..."

Picture (1) Center: Le Grande Guerre  Fort Douaumont.
2 godD0018 Text Only: "...see of the guns...piece of iron...burial ground...237th Regiment of the French Infantry...trenchs..."Death Valley"...."

 
2 godD0019 Text: "...barb wire..."Death Valley"...Shell holes, barb wire, rocks, duds, ..."

Picture (1) Top: Untitled/Faded.
2 godD0020 Pictures (4): Untitled/Faded.
2 godD0021 Text Only: "....American helmuts...Y.M.C.A. man...Bras...Lerouville...Lieutenant in the Medical Corps...A.F. Dunsmore from Barnesboro Pennsylvania...train at St. Mihiel..."
2 godD0022 Text: "...officers...train came to St. Mihiel...Y.M.C.A....9th Corps had moved..."

Pictures (2) Top: St. Mihiel Le Pont Et Sa Passarelle.

                   Bottom: St. Mihiel Avenue De La Gare.
2 godD0023 Text: "...Y.M.C.A. man...Zone Major..."

Pictures (2) Top:  St. Mihiel

                 Bottom: St. Mihiel Meuse
2 godD0024 Text: "...Zone Major...Hotel du Gygne...Public Market Building..." 

Pictures (2) Top: St. Mihiel Plaude Holles.

                    Bottom:  St. Mihiel Le Marche Couvert.
2 godD0025 Text Only: "Zone Major's Office...Lieutenant... germans made the civilian population...American coffee...troops...Company of M.P.s...."
2 godD0026 Text: "...K of C...germans were short of munitions...real trench..."

Pictures (1) Top: St. Mihiel Meuse Statue Du Sculpteur Richier.
2 godD0027 Text: "...type of trench that was used at St. Mihiel...germans...dug out...electric wire strung across the trench...trench mortars...boxes of hand grenades of the potato masher type...Lieutenant found a german helmut...Ford came along...Y.M.C.A...."

Picture (1) Top: St. Mihiel Fort Du Camp Des Romains.
2 godD0028 Pictures (4) Untitled/Faded.
2 godD0029 Text: "...Verdun was bad off in "Death Valley" between St.Mihiel and Aprement...trenches...dugouts...American Artillery...Lugers..."gats..."

Picture (1) Center: Untitled.
2 godD0030 Text: "...American Artillery and the german artillery...number of bones...parts of skulls...lots of german and French rifles...Ordinance department excepting pistols...hand grenades...Armies...duds...allied or german..."
 

Picture (1) Center: Untitled/Human Remains-Skulls.

2 godD0031 Text: "...trenches...concrete dugouts...piece of gas mask...clip of machine gun bullets...germans have made shells from paper..."

Picture (1) Center: Untitled.
2 godD0032 Text Only: "The Lieutenant...german ammunition dump...aeroplane bombs..."

Picture (1) Center: Untitled.
2 godD0033 Text: "...what german barb wire looks like...Lieutenant...came upon the camp and found Americans..."Commanding Officers"...

Picture (1) Center: Untitled/Barbwire.
2 godD0034 Pictures (4) Untitled/Highly Faded.
2 godD0035 Text: "...Captain...Soldier...Lieutenant...war, politics...Ford..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Apremont Meuse Un Fue.
2 godD0036 Text: "...Apremont...Camp...St. Nazaire...St. Mihiel...helmut..."

Picture (1) Center: Untitled/Faded.
2 godD0037 Text Only: "...Zone Major's Office...train..."

Pictures (2) Top: St. Mihiel Rue General Pershing.

                   Bottom: St. Mihiel Place De Halles.
2 godD0038 Text Only:"...Coblenz on the way to Brest...42nd Rainbow Division...American...Officers...Lerouville...Sergeant...President Poincare, the President of France...germans...St. Mihiel...Pagny-Sur-Meuse...French government...Lieutenant...office of the R.T.O....M.P. Corps..."

 
2 godD0039 Text Only: "7th Division...Coblenz...2 Lieutenants...Iowa...Delta...Mr. Crawford...Toul...Red Cross...M.P.'s..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Toul Illustre La Gare.
2 godD0040 Text Only: "Officers Rest House...Officers Hotel...M.P...."

Picture (1) Bottom: Toul
2 godD0041 Text Only: "Y.M.C.A. lunch counter..."Officers Only"...comissary...Mike and I...Fatima Cigarettes...Army...Toul Aerodome...Yandell...Porte Moselle...Moselle River...Engineers..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Toul Illustre.
2 godD0042 Text: "...meats...bridges...cannons and bullets...French are such a warring nation..."

Picture (2) Top: Toul Illustre

                 Bottom: Toul Illustre
2 godD0043 Text: "...2 Soldiers...Toul Aerodome...Ford...Field Number 1...287th Aero Squadron...Sergeant Yandell..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Untitled.

 
2 godD0044 Text Only: "..."Laughing Debutante Yandell"...german Fokker...American ships...(June 15th 1919)....Eiffel Tower...barracks...Squadron...ambulance...Lieutenant the Pilot...Sam Browne Belt...Toul...Air Service...Porte de Metz...Place de la Republique...enlisted men's Y.M.C.A...."
2 godD0045 Picture (4) Untitled/Faded "German Aeroplanes.
2 godD0046 Text: "..."A.P.O.N."...Comissery...russet shores...hobnailed shoes..."

Picture (2) Top: Toul

                  Bottom: Toul
2 godD0047 Text: "...fountain and the church...Nice..."

Picture (2) Top: Toul Illustre

                 Bottom: Toul La Porte Metz
2 godD0048 Text:"...French Restaraunt where Yandell...Red Cross..."

Picture (1) Top: Toul Illustre Place De La Republique.
2 godD0049 Text Only: "...Yandell...Notre Dame Church at Paris...Tours...Joan of Arc..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Toul Cathedrale Et Hotel De Ville.
2 godD0050 Pictures (2) Top: Toul

                   Bottom: Toul La Cathedrale
2 godD0051 Text: "...Fountain...barracks...Yandell....Infirmary...Sergeant in charge...Chicago...Lieutenant...hospital...Lieutenant Usrey a doctor from Blytheville, Arkansas...Liberty ship...a Spad, a Fokker, some French ships...wireless machine..."

Pictures (1): Bottom: Untitled.
2 godD0052 Picture (1) Center: Liberty Ship.
2 godD0053

Pictures (1) Center: 287th Aero Squadron, U.S. Army.
2 godD0054 Text: "Yandell...Nancy...Y.M.C.A....Camp..."

Picture (2): Top: Toul Rue De La Republique

                  Bottom: Toul La Rue Gamboth.

2 godD0055 Text: "...79th Insignia (The Lorraine Cross)...304th Supply Train...Moon's Outfit...Yandell...Signal Office...French Post Office...Lieutenant Graves...Park Field...Moon...Nancy...Toul...passenger car...M.P....Pilots..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Toul Le Fort Saint-Michiel.
2 godD0056 Text Only: "...canal...Toul...barges...monument to the soldiers of the war of 180-71...."

Pictures (2) Top: Toul Faubourg Saint Mansuy.

                  Bottom: Toul Le Monument Commemoratif.
2 godD0057 Text: "...Metz-Toul Road...Lieutenant Graves...M.P....Nancy...St. Nazaire..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Nancy.

Train Ticket Top.
2 godD0058 Text: "...Place Stanislas...Square...statues...

Pictures (2) Top: Nancy Porte Sainte-Catherine.

                   Bottom: Nancy Place Stanislas.

 
2 godD0059

Picture (2) Top: Nancy.

                 Bottom: Nancy Place Stanislas.
2 godD0060

Picture (2) Top: Nancy Arc De Triomphe.

                 Bottom: Nancy Place Stanislas.
2 godD0061

Pictures (2) Top: Nancy.

                   Bottom: Nancy Place Stanislas.
2 godD0062

Pictures (2) Top: Nancy Fountaine D'Amphitrite.

                   Bottom: Nancy Place Stanislas.
2 godD0063 Text: "...Y.M.C.A....Yandell's Barracks...mechanics had made from the propellor of a Liberty, a Spad, and a Fokker...Toul..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nancy Place De La Carriere.

                   Bottom: Nancy Statue Du Roi Stanislas.
2 godD0064 Text: "...Comissary...Portinas...Yandell...Rue St. John..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nancy Place St. John.

                   Bottom: Nancy Rue St. John.
2 godD0065 Text: "...Yandell...French Market...Swift's Land...Beale Street Market...frog legs..."

Picture (1) Top: Nancy Basilique St. Epvre.
2 godD0066 Text: "...Market here at Nancy...St. Nazaire or Memphis...bomb...during the war...Yandell...swimming pool..."

Picture (1) Top: Nancy Bombardement Par Avions.
2 godD0067 Text: " ...Yandell...Y.M.C.A....St. Nazaire..."

Pictures (1) Bottom: Nancy Eglise Saint Leon.
2 godD0068 Text: "...wounded soldiers...officers...Yandell...A.P.M.....field clerk....steeple of a church..."

Pictures Only (1) Top: Nancy La Cathedrale.
2 godD0069 Text: "...Y.M.C.A....Eiffiel Tower...Toul...Yandell..."

Picture (1) Top: Nancy Tour De La Commanderie.
2 godD0070 Text:"...Y.M.C.A....A.E.F....female impersonators...."

Pictures (2) Top: Nancy La Gare.

                  Bottom: Nancy La Gare. 

2 godD0071 Text Only: "...Yandell...American Soldiers...Toul...Aerodome...Red Cross...Lieutenant Ponderlick...Pilots...St. Nazaire..."
2 godD0072 Document: "DIVISION MOVING THURSDAY MEET ME HERE IN RIMAUCOURT..."
2 godD0073 Text Only: "...telegram from Moon...R.T.O....Rimaucourt....between Neufchateau and Chaumont...American Trains...Toul to Tours...304th Supply Train..."
2 godD0074 Text: "...see Moon and Perry...barracks...79th division...General Pershing or the President...Sergeant Moon...Portinas that Yandell and I bought in Nancy...Dakotan...193rd with Moon's Company..."
2 godD0075 Text Only: "...193rd boys...Earle Arkansas..."Shorty" Turner..."Carranza" Cannady and Ted McCallum...saw Johnny McClure...Moon...Q.M...."A.P.O.N."....barracks..."
2 godD0076 Text Only: "...barracks...Moon and Percy...limousine Dodge...Johnny McClure...Ford truck...Haynes cars...Park Field...Carranza...Annanias Club...79th Division was to be reviewed by General Pershing..."
2 godD0077 Text: "...General was to come by...Moon...Infantry...Sergeants...barracks..Percy...Paris...Opera...St. Nazaire..."

Pictures (1) Bottom: Untitled.

 
2 godD0078 Text Only: "...pictures of Moon and Percy...Dodge...St. Nazaire...Chaumont the G.H.Q.  of the A.E.F....General Pershing's Chateau...Paris...Officer...Americans or French...Rockfellow Institution..."

                     

2 godD0079 Text: "...from Philedelphia...Paris...M.P....R.T.O. Office...Pryor..."

Receipt (1).
2 godD0080 Text Only: "...Quai D'Orsay...Place de Concorde...Champs Elysees...Arc DeTriomphe...Red Cross...Miss Morrisy...St. Nazaire...Crowd of Americans..."

                        
2 godD0081 Text Only: "...trip from Nice...Finland came in and Neely...Mr. Cris Evans of Pantaze...G.H.Q....Athletic Officer...Pornichet....Family Hotel..."

 
2 godD0082 Text: "...The pictures following are different of the beach..."

Picture (2) Top: Pornichet.

                 Bottom: Pornichet.

 
2 godD0083 Pictures (2) Top: Pornichet Family Hotel

                   Bottom: Pornichet Family Hotel.
2 godD0084

Picture (2) Top: Pornichet Les Pins Family Hotel.

                 Bottom: Pornichet Devant Family Hotel.
2 godD0085  

Pictures (2) Top: Pornichet La Plage Pres Family Hotel.

                 Bottom: Pornichet Family Hotel.
2 godD0086  

Picture (2) Top: Pornichet Les Villas.

                 Bottom: Pornichet Family Hotel Et Villas.
2 godD0087  

Picture (2) Top: Pornichet Vue De La Plage.

                 Bottom: Pornichet Le Kursaal.
2 godD0088 Pictures (2) Top: Pornichet Les Rochers De La Pointe.

                   Bottom: Pornichet Vue De La Plage.
2 godD0089 Pictures (2) Top: Pornichet Le Plage.

                   Bottom: Pornichet La Plage.
2 godD0090 Pictures (2) Top: Pornichet Les Rochers De La Pointe.

                   Bottom: Pornichet Hotel.
2 godD0091

Pictures (2)  Top: Pornichet Le Plage.

                   Bottom: Pornichet Le Plage.
2 godD0092  

Pictures (2) Top: Pornichet Avenue De Maze.

                   Bottom: Pornichet Avenue De La Gare.
2 godD0093 Pictures(2) Top: Pornichet Le Bois D'Amour.

                  Bottom: Pornichet Le Bois D'Amour.
2 godD0094  

Picture (2) Top: Pornichet La Chapelle.

                 Bottom: Pornichet Avenue De La Chapelle.
2 godD0095 Pictures (2) Top: Pornichet Avenue Yolande.

                   Bottom: Pornichet Vue Generale.
2 godD0096 Document Text: "...following named officers, Army Field Clerks, and enlisted men...entitled to wear War Service Chevrons..." By Command of Brigadier General Rockenbach.
2 godD0097 Text: "...This is our mess Officer 2nd Lieutenant Patrick E. Sineath..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Untitled-2nd Lieutenant Patrick E. Sineath. 

2 godD0098 Lunch Menu Text: "HEADQUARTERS OFFICERS MESS BASE SECTION NO. 1 ST. NAZAIRE....Brigadier General Rockenbach...."
2 godD0099 Pictures (1) Top: Untitled-OFFICERS MESS BASE SECTION...

                   Bottom: Pass for Officers Mess for Robert J. Godbey.

2 godD0100 Text Only: "...the following named officers and Army Field Clerk will proceed...to Nice (Alpes Maritime)...S.O.S. swimming tournament...2nd Lieutenant Fred L. Wilson, 2nd Lieutenant Leslie C. Hudson...Army Field Clerk Robert J. Godbey...by command of Brigadier General Rockenbach..."
2 godD0101 Text: "I saw Lieutenant Wilson....Captain Chomeley-Jones...Captain Hart...Sergeant Brown...Montoir...Nantes...Paris...Gare de Austerlitz..."

 
2 godD0102 Text: "...Lieutenant Hudson...Lieutenant Wilson...Gare de Lyon...Red Cross...Pryor's office...Secretary Lansing...Cadillac Limousine....Notre Dame Church..."
2 godD0103 Picture (1) Center: La Cathedrale Eglise Notre Dame.
2 godD0104 Text Only: "...Church....Catholic Church..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Paris-L'Eglise Notre Dame
2 godD0105 Pictures (2) Top: Paris Notre Dame

                   Bottom: Paris Notre Dame
2 godD0106 Pictures (2) Top: Paris Notre Dame

                   Bottom: Paris Notre Dame
2 godD0107 Pictures (2) Top: Paris Notre Dame

                   Bottom: Paris Notre Dame

 
2 godD0108 Pictures (2) Top: Paris Notre Dame

                   Bottom: Paris Notre Dame

 
2 godD0109 Text Only: "...Notre Dame Church...Palais de Justice...Hotel de Ville...Jardins de Luxembourg...Base Hospital No. 57...Captain Oursler...Pryor...Dr. Sanford...Dr. Ellot...Pantheon..."

Picture (1) Top: Paris Palais de Justice
2 godD0110 Picture (1) Center: Paris Le Pont Au Change Et Le Palais De Justice.
2 godD0111

Picture (1) Center: Le Pont D'Arcole Et L'Hotel De Ville.
2 godD0112

Pictures (1) Center: Le Rue Sofflot Et Le Pantheon.
2 godD0113 Text: "...famous statue....Pantheon de la Guerre..."

Pictures Only (2) Top: Paris Le Rue Sofflot Et Le Pantheon.

                           Bottom: Paris Le Pantheon.
2 godD0114 Text: "...Pryor...tombs of M. Carnot...President of the French Revolution..."

Pictures (2) Top: Paris-Rodin.

                 Bottom: Paris-Le Pantheon.
2 godD0115 Text: "...tombs...history of France..."

Pictures (2) Top: Le Pantheon.

                   Bottom: Le Pantheon.
2 godD0116 Text: "...buildings in Paris...French Government..."

Pictures (2) Top: Paris Le Pantheon.

                   Bottom: Paris Tombeau De Carnot.
2 godD0117 Text: "...Pantheon...Rue de Rivoli...Tower of St. Jacques...Y.M.C.A....Red Cross...Paris to Nice...Dijon..."

Picture (1) Top: La Tour St. Jacques Et La Rue De Rivoli.
2 godD0118 Text: "...Lieutenant Wilson...Commanding Officer...whip-cord trousers..."

Business Card? Hotel Beau-Rivage Nice.
2 godD0119 Text: "...Sergeant...Casino...Nice..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nice Palace De Jetee.

                   Bottom: Nice Palace De Jetee.
2 godD0120 Text: "...beauty of the palace..."

Pictures Only (2) Top: Nice Palace De Jetee.

                          Bottom:.Nice Palace De Jetee
2 godD0121 Text: "...Casino...VilleFranche..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nice Le Quai Des Etats Unis.

                   Bottom:  Nice Le Quai Des Etats Unis.
2 godD0122 Text: "...St. Nazaire..."

Picture (2) Top: Nice Le Mont Boron Et Les Villes.

                 Bottom: Nice Le Mont Boron Et Les Villes.
2 godD0123 Text: "...Mont Boron..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nice Le Port De Quartier De Riguer.

                  Bottom: Nice L'Eglise Du Port.
2 godD0124 Text: "...Villefranche....Captain..."

Pictures (2) Top: Cote D'Azur Villefranche Sur-Mer .

                  Bottom: Cote D'Azur Villefranche Sur-Mer .
2 godD0125 Text: "...Army...Villefranche...Americans..."

Pictures(1) Center: Untitled. Godbey's Swimming Race.         

2 godD0126 Text: "....100 meter backstroke....200 meter breaststroke..."

Pictures (2) Untitled.
2 godD0127 Text: "...clothes worn by the French People..."

Pictures (2) Untitled.
2 godD0128 Text: "...800 meters..."

Pictures (2) Untitled.
2 godD0129 Text: "...Captain...Villefranche..."

Pictures (1) Center: Nice Place Beatrix Monument Gambetta.
2 godD0130 Text: "...Lieutenant Wilson...Ambulance..."
2 godD0131 Text: "...Casino...A.E.F....Villefranche...Ambulance..."

Picture (1) Center: Villefranche Le Rue De L'Eglise.

2 godD0132 Text: "...Villefranche...USS Gregory..."

Pictures (2) Top: Cote D'Azur Villefranche Sur-Mer.

                   Bottom:  Cote D'Azur Villefranche Sur-Mer.
2 godD0133 Text: "...King of Belgium...California..."

Pictures (2) Top: Villefranche.

                    Bottom: Cote D'Azur Villefranche.
2 godD0134 Text: "...French Boats..."battle wagons"..."

Pictures (2) Top: Villefranche La Rade Un Jour De Fete..

                   Bottom: Cote D'Azur Villefranche Sur De Mer.
2 godD0135

Pictures (1) Center: Villefranche.
2 godD0136 Text: "...swimming races..."

Pictures (2) Top: Villefranche Le Rade El L'Escadre.

                   Bottom: Villefranche Le Rade Un Jour De Fete.
2 godD0137 Text: "...breast stroke...100 meter..."

Pictures (2) Untitled Swimming Events.

2 godD0138 Text: "...Belgian soldier, a French civilian, a Y. M.C.A. woman, a 2nd Lieutenant,...American soldiers..."

Pictures (2) Untitled.
2 godD0139 Text: "...A.E.F. swimming races...Coblenz...Monte Carlo..."Duke"...automobile...Englishman...Grasse...Laundelet type...chaffeur..."

Picture (1) Center: Nice.
2 godD0140 Text: "...Telephone operators...Chauffeur...St. Nazaire...Grasse...Car..."

Ticket: "Y.M.C.A. Automobile Excursions."
2 godD0141 Text: "Perfume factory...salesroom..."

Pictures (2) Top: Grasse Vue A L'Est.

                 Bottom: Grasse Sainte Francios.
2 godD0142 Text: "...perfume...driver..."

Pictures (2) Top: Grasse.

                   Bottom: Grasse .
2 godD0143 Text Only: "..St. Nazaire..."mess"..."

Pictures (2) Top: Grasse.

                   Bottom: Grasse.
2 godD0144 Text Only: "...Americans...Grasse..."

Pictures (2) Top: Grasse Fragonard.

                   Bottom: Grasse Fragonard.
2 godD0145 Text Only: "...Chaffeur...Grasse..."

Pictures (2) Top: Le Bar Gourdon.

                   Bottom: Le Bar Sarree.