Need information about transfer records.

[Guest Westerman]

I'm trying to find out locations that a US soldier served before he was tranfered. Is there anyway to find out what unit he was attached to before transfer. Following is copy of his tranfer papers.

[Guest Westerman]

Here is transcript of a letter he sent home just after transfer.

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May 26, 1918.

Dear Mother

Well I have not

written you for a long time

and I expect you are worrying

about it. I did send you however

a card giving my new address.

Well I have been rotten unlucky

and through no fault of my own

have been transfered to the

graves Registration Service.

Will be incharge of an advance

Unit at the front will receive

all the shells and things

with out the satisfaction

of replying. It can't be helped

however as they will not let

me out of it.

I have been on the

front for three months

and have been on three

different sectors, the last

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of which is probably one

of the hottest on the whole

front. I was pretty lucky

and did not get a scratch.

It was a lot of fun though

we were shelled all the

time - even more at night

than in the day time.

Everything from 77's up to

210s. A 210 hit just

10 yards from the cellar

where we slept and we thought

sure it was coming in.

It isn't so bad though after

you get used to it. As a

rule you can stay under

cover if the shells are too

close. One day some shell

splinters dropped into a kettle

of "????" the cook was

making for dinner. He

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kicked so hard that we

had to move the kitchen. Not

until a shell had taken the

corner off the kitchen. They

took part of the roof off the house

we slept in too. someone

stole all my toilet articles so

I had to buy some French things.

Have had but one carton

of cigarrettes since Christmas.

I cant't understand why they took

me out of the artillery which I

know something about and put

me on this job which an officer

fresh from the states could handle

while an artilleryman from

the states knows nothing. If

I have to I will join the "tanks"

to get out of this. Am

sending a piece of a german

plane that I saw shot down

and which landed near us.

That was in March. Am

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also sending a picture

I found in my pocket. It

is one of some I had taken

last fall for my identification

card. Hope you and Mary

are getting along fine.

Please remember me to

Charlie and to the Campbells.

Good bye.

Your son

Oliver Grosvenor

2 Lieut F.A.

Graves Reg. Service

Unit 302,

OK

Oliver Grosvenor

2 Lieut

[Guest Westerman]

Here is image of souvenir from downed German aircraft he sent home with the above letter.

I would like to pin point areas he served and then try and identify the airplane this came from.

More detailed images here:

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthre...?t=24277&page=2