Sidney D. Light's WWI Diary, Postcards & Letters, 329th Battery Book Accounts

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Please feel free to add comments in this section if it concerns the 329th, individuals mentioned, or history concerning events mentioned in the articles directly. General remarks about WWI may be made under the modem entitled Reader's Interest in and Comments about WW I

Battery B and E accounts are representative of most units. In the end, I transcribed far more of the book than I originally intended.  The original book has now been returned to my uncle, but the bulk of material is now available to family members and WWI enthusiasts.

This fabulous book (the 329th Barrage, 1917-1919) was written shortly after the war, printed and distributed to the men who returned home. There is no indication of publisher or publishing date. I believe my great-grandfather (Sid's father-in-law), who ran a book-binding shop, may have helped in turning these men's accounts of a soldier's life into a printed book. 

I have resisted changing grammar, spelling or punctuation. However, I have taken the liberty of dividing a single entry of the Battery's experiences into sections, to allow readers to locate specific sections that may be of most interest. In places where there seemed to be typos in the book itself, the words are enclosed {as such}.