Sunday, August 5, 1917:
Rose at 7:45. Breakfast 8:00 A.M.--bacon and fried eggs and chocolate. Rainy. Cleaned car, played bridge, read The Afterhouse by Mary Roberts Rhinehart. Received letter from Dad enclosing 300 francs in American Express draft. Feel fine! Can now look the world in the face again. Dad asks for more livid details of work and France. Should I give them to him? I think it just as well to keep many of these things to myself until after the war any way.
We received orders of movement this evening. We are attached to 42nd Infantry [of the French Army], one of the best armies in France, now in repos. We join them at Revigny and follow them wherever they go. They will probably be in repos for a c
ouple of weeks.
ouple of weeks.
Monday, August 6:
[Written at 8:45 A.M.] Arose at 6:30. Breakfast at 7. Shaved and have car all cleaned up ready to go. Are now waiting for our load which consists of Frenchmen’s personals. Each car has to help on baggage so as not to overload the camion. We were off about noon after having spent the morning in preparation. From Erizé-la-Petite we went southwest to Brabant-le-Roi through Rembercourt, L’Isle-en-Barrois, Villote, Laheycourt, arriving about 4:30 this afternoon. We lined up and were talked to by the Lieut. of the Ambulance section whom we are replacing. He said they had done good work and had one of the best armies of France to work for and he hoped we would be able to fill their “boots” successfully. Their section didn’t look badly shot up, but most of the drivers were men over 
30 years of age. They also drove Fiats.
30 years of age. They also drove Fiats.
We parked our cars in a little park and most of us slept right there. Some of the fellows went up to a barracks to sleep.
Outside of most of the towns through which we passed being almost totally wrecked by shell fire, we didn’t see so very much. The car ran perfectly. I drove the whole distance.
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