Robert J. Godbey Collection - Journal, Vol. 5

**Note: Item number corresponds to page number.
 
Box Item # Description Thumbnail
2 godE0000 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. 5."
2 godE000A Handwritten notes.
2 godE0001 Text: "Our next stop, for dinner, was at Gorges Du Luop..."

Picture (2) Top: Gorges Du Loup

                 Bottom: Gorges Du Loup
2 godE0002 Text: "...Our next trip was up this gorge..."

Pictures (2) Top: Gorges Du Loup

                   Bottom: Gorges Du Loup
2 godE0003 Text: "...The road continues up the loop for quite a distance..."

Pictures (2) Top: Gorges Du Loup

                   Bottom: Gorges Du Loup

 
2 godE0004 Text: "...The waterfall is shown in the picture below...

Pictures (2) Top: Gorges Du Loup

                   Bottom: Le Loup

 
2 godE0005 Text: "The falls are about 250 feet high...Restaurant..."

Pictures (1) Center: Gorges Du Loup

 
2 godE0006 Text Only: "...Some of the Second Lieutenants in this army..."Duke" and I gave him five francs..."

Pictures (1) Center: Gorges Du Loup
2 godE0007 Text: "...Those in the picture are: (Left to Right) Sgt. Barger, Brest; AFC Godbey, St. Nazaire; Sgt. Oswald, Brest; Sgt. Schenkel, St. Nazaire; and Sgt. Dedham, St. Nazaire (laying down)..."

Picture (1) Untitled
2 godE0008 Text: "The picture below is a hotel directly in front of the casino..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nice

                   Bottom: Nice
2 godE0009 Text Only: "..he told me he was a Memphis boy...It was Dan Bianchi....The next day Duke and I decided we would go down to Cannes...See no Americans...Y.M.C.A..."
2 godE0010 Text: "...so we went over to the Y.M.C.A....Duke and I started..."

Picture (1) Center: Cannes
2 godE0011 Text Only: "...Duke would want...Y.M.C.A...."

Picture (1) Top: Nice

                 Bottom: Nice

 
2 godE0012 Text Only: "...came from Raleigh, North Carolina...Some 2nd Lieutenant..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nice

                  Bottom: Statue Massena
2 godE0013 Pictures (1) Center: Panorama de Nice
2 godE0014 Text: "...trip I made here in October 1918..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nice

                   Bottom: Nice 
2 godE0015 Text: "...the cascade was working when we were here..."

Pictures (2) Top: Nice   

               Bottom: Nice

 
2 godE0016 Text: "...Duke and I came back by the Hotel Suisse to see Dan Bianchi...next morning-May 11th, Mother's Day..."

Picture (1) Center: Nice
2 godE0017 Text: "...so we went outside and wrote our mothers letter...The Y.M.C.A...R.T.O.'s office...commanding officer..."

Mother's Day Card.
2 godE0018 Text : "...there was no 2nd class department...."

Picture (2) Top: Nice

                  Bottom: Nice
2 godE0019 Text: "...told of the three sergeants...Nice...St. Nazaire...A.E.F. swimming pool meet...Duke was the only banker while Sgt. Schenkel...les Arcs ..."
2 godE0020 Text: "...asked the Red Cross man in charge of the Canteen...PORTINAS..."Steeple Chase"....
2 godE0021 Text: "...Duke and I engaged a taxicab...Hotel de Crillion...to see Pryor...Bois de Bologne...Overton Park...Cafe de la Paix...St. Nazaire..."
2 godE0022 Text: "...See my captain...Pornicet for a swim...I had a message from Moon at Camp #1...Sgt. Long...See Percy...Delousing Plant..."
2 godE0023 AFC Godbey Identity Card
2 godE0024 Text: "...Mike and I went...Sgt. Schenkel, Dedham and AFC Godbey...Capt. Hart...Pornicet..." 

Pictures (1) Bottom: Untitled
2 godE0025 Text: "...Sgt. Schenkel...impersonating Ruth St. Denis..."
2 godE0026 Text: "...towards La Baule...St. Marguerite and St. Nazaire...Hotel l'ocean at Pornichet on the left is Sgt. Dedham and on the right AFC Godbey..."

Pictures (4) All untitled
2 godE0027 Text: "...in France...Month of May 1919...."

Pictures (3): 2 Top, I Bottom: Untitiled.
2 godE0028 Pictures (4) Untitled/Faded.
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Picture (3): Untitled.
2 godE0030 Text: "...Pornichet talking to Dedham, or rather Duke....Kodak..."
 

Picture (2) Bottom: Untitled
2 godE0031 Program: "Contest for Prizes Aquatic Stunts" of the Motor Races and Athletic Stunts Events at St. Nazaire & La Baule May 30, 31, and June 1, 1919. Sgt. Don Daugherty R. P. Band. Base-Section-No. 1
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Picture (2) Top: Pornichet. Bottom: Pornichet.
2 godE0033 Text: "...La Baule-Pornichet....American Aviator...K of C...Hotel de l'Ocean...consisted of Sgt. Schenkel, Sgt. Dedham, M.E. Greene, and AFC Godbey...Paris...A.E.F. Finals..."
2 godE0034 Travel Requisition...the following named officer and Army Field Clerk will proceed, without delay, to Paris (Seine)...A.E.F. swimming meet...2nd Lieutenant Henry Elbert MTB, AFC Robert J. Godbey, By Command of Brigadier General Rockenbach.
2 godE0035 Text: "...leave for Paris Duke and I went out to Pornichet...train to St. Nazaire...American money...English lady...Nantes...American soldiers..."
2 godE0036 Text: "...we reached Paris...Pullman...Gare d'Orleans...Y.M.C.A....Red Cross...Metro...Chief Athletic Officer..."

Picture (1) Top: Paris
2 godE0037 Text Only: "...Y.M.C.A....Clingnancourt Barracks...Gare St. Nazaire...le Havre...Athletic Officer..."Cohens"...Y.M.C.A....Paris...Duke..."

Picture (1) Center: Paris
2 godE0038 Text Only:"..Athletic Officer...Sacred Heart Church...Paris...City of Paris during the war of 1870..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Untitiled
2 godE0039 Text Only: "...Hotel de Crillion...Ministre de la Marine...Madeleine Church...Champs Elysees...Soldier and Sailor Club...Mr. John Wannamaker of Philadelphia...Casino de Paris...Place Concorde..."

Picture (1) Center: Untitled
2 godE0040 Text Only: "The obelisque shown above is called the Oblisque de Louqsor and was a present to Louis Phillippe in 1836 by the Sultan of Egypt...."

Picture (2) Top, Bottom: Untitled
2 godE0041 Text Only: "We secured very good seats..."

Program: "Casino De Paris"
2 godE0042 Text: "...Trinity Church...Hotel de Crillion...Athletic Officer...Eiffel Tower...Trocadero...Cathedrals all over France..."

Picture (1) Top: Paris
2 godE0043 Text: "...Soldiers and sailors club..."

Picture (2) Top: Untitled.

                  Bottom: Paris
2 godE0044 Text Only: "...Opera..."Faust"...."

Picture (1) Center: Untitled
2 godE0045 Text: "...some American nurses...representative of the D.C.I....Pryor had fixed it with Mr. Atwood...Dr. Ourlser and Dr. Sanford...Memphis...Dr. Elliot..."
2 godE0046 Text: "...Luxembourg Gardens...Eiffel Tower...Sgt. Schenkel and M.E. Greene...Bois de Cologne...Seine River..."

Picture (1) Top: Paris
2 godE0047 Text: "...triumph...Lake St. James..."

Picture (2) Top, Bottom: Untitled
2 godE0048 Text:"...Lake St. James...Bois de Cologne, Paris..."

Picture (1) Top: Untitled

  
2 godE0049 Text Only: "...S.O.S. Championship Swims...Place de Concorde...Pryor...Field Clerks...Admiral Benson...Soldiers and Sailors Club...Champs Elysees..."A.P.O.N."...Y.M.C.A....A.E.F...."
2 godE0050 Program: "K of C" 100th Joyful Time For the Musical Show of 1,000 Laughs.
2 godE0051 Text: "...Theatres in the states..."The unequallyed Female Impersonator of the A.E.F."...Julian Eltinge...Dr. Sanford...Bois de Bologne..."  
2 godE0052 Text: "...Place de L'Opera...Duke...Hotel de Crillion...Champs Elysees...French girls..."

Program: "The place Rue Moga-Dor Doris Regine Flory"

  
2 godE0053 Receipt: Hotel Richepanse
2 godE0054 Text: "...Hospital...Dr. Sanford...Palais de Glace...Y.M.C.A...."

Program: "Glorious Teddy" By Henri Robas

  
2 godE0055 Text: "...benefit of the French Orphans...Paris...Secretary Lansing...Pryor...Champs Elysees...K of C...St. Nazaire...Ambassadeurs Theatre..."  
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Pictures (1) Untitled
2 godE0057 Text: "...Theatres in Paris...Welfare Organization...Hotel de Crillion...President of the United States and Colonel House...Pryor...Eiffel Tower..."

Program: "Ambassadeurs" Oscar Dufrenne Directeur
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Pictures (1): Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower

 
2 godE0059 Text: "...Pryor and I...I'll never be an aviator..."

Picture (1) Bottom: Paris
2 godE0060 Text: "...to the Champs Elysees...Alcazar...Skating Rink...Chair Company...Pryor and I went to the Theater Imperial...."Why the boys of the A.E.F. go wrong in Paris"..."
2 godE0061 Text: "...leave the crillion..."La Bourse"-The French Stock Exchange..."

Program: "Theatre Imperial"
Direction: Aimee Favre

 
2 godE0062 Pictures (2) Top: La Bourse

                   Bottom: La Bourse
2 godE0063

Pictures (1) Center: La Porte Boulevard St. Denis
2 godE0064 Text: "...City of Paris...Porte St. Martin...Boulevard des Italians...."

Pictures (1) Top: Paris
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Picture (1) Center: Boulevard Des Italiens
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Picture (1) Center: Les Greve Des Transports.
2 godE0067

Pictures (1) Top: Untitled

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Pictures (1) Top: Untitled

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2 godE0069 Picture (2) Top: Untitled

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2 godE0070 Text:"...strike on the subway...to the Champs Elysees and met Duke and Sanderson...Alcazar Skating Rink...going to Germany...Athletic officer...Gare D'Orleans...Palais de Glace...Pryor...." 
2 godE0071 Text Only: "...Mr. Atwood, the DCI man...the New York Herald...Paris...Champs Elysees...Galeries Lafayette...Y.M.C.A....Pantheon De La Guerre...Tomb of Napolean..."
2 godE0072 Text: "...Bridge Alexander 3rd...Tuleries Gardens...Palais de Justice..."

Pictures (2) Top: Untitled

                   Bottom: Paris
2 godE0073 Text: "...Palais de Justice...old church..."

Pictures (2) Top: Paris

                   Bottom: Paris
2 godE0074 Text: "...Y.M.C.A....Church the Royalty..."

Pictures (1) Center: Paris
2 godE0075 Text Only: "...Y.M.C.A...ruler of France...Louis XIV..."

Pictures (2) Top: Paris

                   Bottom: Paris Sainte Chapelle
2 godE0076 Text Only: "...Can you beat these Frogs?...church..."

Pictures (2) Top: Paris

                   Bottom: Paris
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Pictures (1) Center: Paris Sainte Chapelle
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Picture (1) Center: Untitled                     

2 godE0079 Pictures (2) Top: Paris Sainte Chapelle

                   Bottom: Paris Sainte Chapelle
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Pictures (2) Top: Paris Sainte Chapelle

                   Bottom: Paris Sainte Chapelle

             
2 godE0081 Text Only: "...prison in which Marie Antoinette....guilloutine...Place de la Concorde...Obelisque..."

Pictures (2) Top: La Conciergerie

                   Bottom: Cour De La Conciergerie

 
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Picture (2) Top: La Conciergerie

                 Bottom: La Conciergerie
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Picture (2) Top: La Conciergerie

                 Bottom: La Conciergerie
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Picture (2) Top: La Conciergerie

                 Bottom: La Conciergerie
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Picture (2) Top: La Conciergerie

                 Bottom: La Conciergerie
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Picture (2) Top: La Conciergerie

                 Bottom: La Conciergerie
2 godE0087

Picture (2) Top: Paris Statue de la Republique.

                 Bottom: Paris Notre Dame
2 godE0088 Text: "...Y.M.C.A. Garden...Nice...from North Carolina...Greene..."

Pictures (1) Center: Untitled
2 godE0089 Text: "...street cars...metros...Champs Elysees...Soldier and Sailors Club...Pryor...Palais de Glace...Greene...Red Cross..."Tent City" near the Eiffel Tower..."

Pictures (1) Center: Rue de Rivoli
2 godE0090 Text: "...went to the Canteen...St. Nazaire...subway..."
2 godE0091 Request Form-June 22, 1919-"Permission to visit Pornichet and la Baule"
2 godE0092  

Pictures (2) Top:  1) Charles Mckee; 2) 1st Sgt. Ceole; 3) Mc; 4) ?; 5) Godbey; 6) Private Meyer; 7) ?

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2 godE0093 Pictures(5) Top-2: Untitled

                  Center: Mckee, Ceole, McElroy

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2 godE0095 Pictures (5) Top-2: Untitled

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2 godE0096 Pictures (3) Top: Untitled

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2 godE0097 Receipt from Family-Hotel Pornichet Les Pins
2 godE0098 Text: "..."PARIS"...ruins of druids...Roman...St. Nazaire..."

Pictures (2) Top: Untitled

                   Bottom: St. Nazaire
2 godE0099 Pictures (2) Top: Sainte Nazaire Dolmen

                   Bottom: St. Nazaire Dolmen
2 godE0100 Request Form July 6th, 1919- "Permission to visit Pornichet"
2 godE0101 Pictures (5) Top-2: Untitled

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2 godE0102 Pictures (4) Top-2: Untitled

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2 godE0103 Pictures (4) Top-2: Untitled

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2 godE0104 Text Only: "...Captain Chomeley-Jones....Sgt. Bemison....Base Surgeon...Class "D"...Hospital Centre at Saveney...Watson...Lieutenant Feely...Lieutenant Strong...."
2 godE0105 Text: "....Watson...Captain Chomeley-Jones...Lieutenant Strong...Washington...Montoir...States...replacement outfits...Mike...Headquarters..."
2 godE0106 Text: "...I had been officially relieved and would report to Camp Montoir no later than July 20th, 1919...St. Nazaire...to New York...Boston...Southern troops...Charleston, South Carolina...General's stenographer...Bailey...Field Clerk named Gingrich...Embarkation Camp..."
2 godE0107 Document: "Special Orders No. 197"-...services are no longer required with the American Expeditionary Forces, are relieved, upon completion of present duties, not later than July 20th, 1919....AFC William J. Acker, Lawrence M. Brian, Arthur T. Christie, Orlando A. Easterling, Benjamin J. Feldman, Ross A. Gingrich, Robert J. Godbey, James B. Heanue, Robert F. Hutchinson, John A. O'Connell, Samuel T. Roeder, James J. Sanders, Edgar S. Wise. By Command of Brigadier General Rockenback, Thomas J. Johnson, Chief of Staff.
2 godE0108

Text: "...Gingrich...Mike...ARTEMIS...a freighter...Montoir...Headquarters..."
2 godE0109 Text Only: "...Blois...New York..."All out for the U.S.A."...docks at St. Nazaire...Montoir...Paris...Brest..."
2 godE0110 Document: "Special Orders No. 82"...the following named officers...will proceed without delay on board the U.S.S. Artemis to Brest...for return to the United States..."
2 godE0111 Text: "...St. Nazaire...Villes Martin...Roche de Lion, St. Marguerite, Pornichet, and La Baule...Belle Isle...Bay of Biscay...Lighthouse...ARTEMIS..."
2 godD0112 Pictures (5) Top-2: Untitled, Center: Untitled, Bottom: Untitled
2 godE0113 Text: "..Kodak...St.Nazaire..."

Pictures (2) Top: Untitled

                   Bottom: Untitled.
2 godE0114 Text: "...French Wives...Kodak...Brest...fathoms...Pontanezen Barracks..."
2 godE0115 Text: "...harbour of Brest...American Ships...30 ships...Uncle Sam..."

Pictures (1) Top: Brest

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2 godE0116 Text: "...Pontanezen Barracks...American Roads...2nd Division...Field Clerks...Major Comstock...100,000 men here..."

Pictures (2) Bottom: Untitled
2 godE0117 Text: "...in our tent..."

Picture (2) Top: Untitled

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2 godE0118 Text: "..."good southern boy" from Louisiana...russett shoes...Embarkation Camp..."For Officers Only"...McElroy...St. Nazaire...Shawhan..."

Picture (1) Center: Untitled
2 godE0119 Text: "...Major Comstock, Gingrich and I...Lieutenant Moss...Finland for Robert Neely...St. Nazaire...Marseille or Bordeaux..."

Pictures (1) Bottom: Brest.
2 godE0120 Text: "..."Main and Madison Streets"..."

Pictures (2) Top: Brest

                   Bottom: Brest
2 godE0121 Text: "...Gingrich and I...Brest...I.P. (Intelligence Police)...Kodak...Y.M.C.A..."

Pictures (4) All Untitled
2 godE0122 Text: "...Great Northern, the ship that was beached at Fire Island New York on January 1st, 1919...The Leviathan...Y.M.C.A...St. Nazaire..."

Picture (3) All Untitled
2 godE0123 Text: "...picture above...gives a good idea of Brest..."

Pictures (2) Top: Brest

                  Bottom: Brest
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Pictures (2) Top: Brest.

                  Bottom: Brest.
2 godE0125 Text: "...pictures above show a type of French Gunboat...Y.M.C.A....Officers...Camp Pontanezen..."

Pictures(2) Top: Brest

                  Bottom: Untitled         

2 godE0126 Text: "....Embarkation Camp at St. Nazaire..."

Pictures (2) Untitled.
2 godE0127 Text: "...Visit the Leviathan...visit the Levi..."

Pictures (2) Top: Brest

                   Bottom: Brest
2 godE0128 Text: "...Field Clerk...Gingrich...Major Comstock...Lieutenant Moses...Levi...The FINLAND..."

Pictures (1) Untitled.
2 godE0129 Text: "...American make...Baldwin...Levi...Gingrich..."

Pictures (2) Top: Brest

                   Bottom: Brest
2 godE0130 Text: "...the Levi...coaled by the Jerry's...Gingrich and I..."

Pictures (2) Untitled
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Picture (2) Top, Bottom: Untitled
2 godE0132 Text: "...the Levi..."G" Deck..."

Pictures (2) Top: Untitled

                   Bottom: Brest
2 godE0133 Text: "...Officers and Field Clerks...the Levi...boat AGAMEMNON, AMERICA and NORTHERN PACIFIC...Major Comstock...War Department...Welfare workers...Y.M.C.A....Gingrich...2nd of August 1919..."
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Pictures (2) Top: Brest

                   Bottom: Brest
2 godE0135 Text: "...picture above shows some fo the 2nd Division (Marines)...U.S.A...."

Pictures (4) Untitled.
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Pictures (2) Top: Brest

                   Bottom: Brest
2 godE0137 Text: "...good view of the Northern Pacific..."

Pictures (3) Untitled

2 godE0138 Text: "...telegram to Deeta...St. Nazaire...on my way home...the N.P...."

Pictures (1) Center: Untitled.
2 godE0139 Text: "...officers...boat..."

Picture (2) Untitled
2 godE0140 Text: "..."war paint"...way to the U.S.A..."

Pictures (2) Untitled
2 godE0141 Text: "...officers had dogs...Captain...not dogs...French sub chasers...N.P....Y.M.C.A. men...to the U.S.A..."

Pictures (1) Center: Untitled
2 godE0142 Text: "..."balled the Jack"...passed by AGAMEMNON...NORTHERN PACIFIC...Great Northern Steamship...Jim Hill...Railroad...Field Officers..."

Pictures (1) Center: Untitled
2 godE0143 Text Only: "...1600 men aboard the ship..."A" Deck...boat small in comparison with the Levi..."
2 godE0144 Text Only: "...pictures of the deck..."

Pictures (1) Center: Untitled
2 godE0145 Text Only: "...sailors held a boxing match...wrestling matches..."

Pictures (3) Untitled

 
2 godE0146 Text: "...band came on deck...inside the salon...Kodak..."

Pictures (3) Untitled
2 godE0147 Text: "..."way to France"...St. Nazaire to Brest...N.P...."

Pictures (2) Untitled
2 godE0148 Text: "...saw a whale...pictures shows some of the dogs that a captain..."

Pictures (2) Untitled
2 godE0149 Text: "...9th of August...Kodak...lecture by Personnel Adjutant...11th of August...gulf stream...Ambrose Channel...Light Ship..."
2 godE0150 Text: "...close to the U.S.A....Pilot...Light-Ship..."

Pictures (2) Untitled
2 godE0151 Text: "...sight of land...August 12th....Coney Island...Levi...New York...March 14th, 1918...New York Harbour...Woolworth Building..."
2 godE0152 Pictures (2) Top: Untitled

                   Bottom: Statue of Liberty, New York.
2 godE0153 Text: "...San Francisco earthquake...seeing the "Old Girl"...Levi...Pier Number 4 Hoboken..."Mayors Committee of Welcome"...

Pictures (2) Untitled
2 godE0154 Text: "...got of the N.P....Chief Clerk's Office...N.P. tied to pier number 3 Hoboken..."war paint"...(August 12th 1919)...Field Clerk named Smith form Los Angeles...New York...Y.M.C.A....Brest..."

Picture (1) Top: U.S.S. Northern Pacific
2 godE0155 Document: Headquarters for Embarkation Hoboken New Jersey "INSTRUCTIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION FOR CASUALS FROM ABROAD"
2 godE0156 Document Continued: ....By Command of Major General Shanks D.A. Watt Lt. Col., Port Adjutant
2 godE0157 Document Continued
2 godE0158 Document Continued
2 godE0159 Document Continued: Train Schedules
2 godE0160 Document Continued: Army Field Clerks Returning from Abroad...Signature of Robert Jackson Godbey..."
2 godE0161 Document: War Department, A.G.O., July 22, 1919, to Commanding General...to discharge temporary Army Field Clerks...on their own request...By Order of the Secretary of War J. T. Kerr Adjutant General..."
2 godE0162 Document: Special Orders No. 82 July 18th 1919...Army Field Clerk Robert J. Godbey...by order of Lieutenant Colonel Wills...W.E. Griffin 2nd Lt. CAC Acting Adjutant..."
2 godE0163 Document: Headquarters Port of Embarkation Hoboken New Jersey August 13, 1919...this is to certify that Army Field Clerk Robert J. Godbey has been honorably discharged...Hoboken to Memphis...DA Watt Lt.-Col, A.G.
2 godE0164 Document: Record of Service of Army Field Clerk...Godbey, Robert Jackson...Honorable Discharge effective August 22, 1919...
2 godE0165 Text: "...chief Clerk's Office...the Lieutenant...civilian again...bright red chevron sewed on our uniform as well as some service stripes...to New York, Smith...locate Watson...I met Deeta...My opinion of the French People?...The End.