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Days as a Cannoneer

其他書名	The World War I Diary of Private Herbert T. Tinker, Battery A, 103rd Field Artillery, Rhode Island National Guard, 1917-1919
出版	1917
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RYfwjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋World War I diary of Private Herbert T. Tinker, Battery A, 103rd Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919. Communicated in letters sent to his family, from which this typed transcription was made. "He kept this diary religiously as a record home of his life in Battery A. Such a diary was, of course, frowned upon by military regulations lest they fall into enemy hands but the Battery Commander, apparently dilatory in his paper work for the unit's reports, looked the other way and in fact frequently referred to Private Tinker's diary when catching up with his own military log and daily reports. The entries were sent home as often as possible where his younger brother, Harold, typed them up--first at home in Nashua, later when he too was a student at Brown during the War."--Harold L. Tinker, Brown University Class of 1921. In his letter of conveyance to the John Hay Library, Brown University, Harold Tinker notes that Herbert's unit "was made up largely of Providence persons plus many graduates of Brown University, Classes of 1916 and 1917."