Excerpts from 'Notes A Soldier's Memoir of World War 1 (Private Clifton J. Cate, First Massachusetts Ambulance Corps)'
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Title
Excerpts from 'Notes A Soldier's Memoir of World War 1 (Private Clifton J. Cate, First Massachusetts Ambulance Corps)'
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Identifier
6554.pdf
GWA_5601_Archive_Text-392KB_copy.pdf
Creator
Cate, Clifton J.; Cate, Charles
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Abstract
It was not until after my father's death that his Notes on his service in the First World War and the Kit Bag full of his souvenirs came into my possession, and then my own life was so full of what I thought were more important things that it was years more before I gave these artifacts their most deserved attention. I have embraced them now and marvel at the tour-de-force effort my father's original manuscript demanded (hand typed at four ms. pages per sheet, collated into folded sections, with over 40 miniature pen and ink drawings, sketches, cartoons, and maps”some in full color painstakingly placed in and around the text), and can scarcely hold back my sadness knowing that the wonderment, the questions that I might have asked, want still to ask, can never be properly expressed. The story that I have submitted is Clif Cate's. Included are portions of his original Notes, and some of many letters written by him to his grandmother (who, fortunately, saved the lot). I have corrected some of the typos, misspellings, and here and there (but not in all cases) made a grammatical change. For the experience this work has given me, I remain thoroughly humbled by and grateful to the author, and am pleased to finally have the opportunity to share his words.
Date
May 1917 - November 1918
Date Created
1910-01-01
Temporal Coverage
1912-12-31
Source
Multiple
Medium
Other
Type
Memoir
Contributor
Admin
Charles Cate
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford