CHRONOLOGY OF AMOS N. WILDER’S
WORLD WAR I SERVICE
“” 1916
“Enlists in New York as volunteer ambulance driver”
“Sails for France”
“Begins three-month assignment, American Ambulance Hospital in Paris (“the Paris Service”)”
“” 1917
“Transfers to American Field Service (AFS)”
“Begins three-month assignment, AFS Section 2, at the front in the Argonne, west of Verdun”
“United States enters war against Germany”
“Begins seven-day leave in London and the Lake District”
“Following reenlistment in AFS, departs Paris for Macedonia and service with the Army of the Orient”
“Begins assignment with AFS Section 3, attached to Second Serbian Division, encamped at Bistrika, Serbian Front”
“Departs Salonika for Paris from AFS in Paris”
“Released from AFS in Paris”
“Enlists in Paris as private in U.S. Army, assigned to Field Artillery Training School, Valdahon”
“” 1918
“Reassigned at Valdahon to A Battery, Seventeenth Field Artillery, Second Division; promoted to corporal”
“Departs Valdahon for the front, Rupt Sector, southeast of Verdun”
“Division rushed to Chateau-Thierry/Belleau Wood defense to repel massive German thrust toward the Marne and Paris”
“Regiment placed in reserve during Second Battle of the Marne”
“Begins forced march for Soissons/Viller-Cotterets mobilization and decisive attack of 18 July”
“Division rusticated near Nancy”
“Hospitalization, convalescent camps, influenza quarantine in southwest France”
“American-led victory at St.-Mihiel”
“Returns to A Battery behind the front at Blanc Mont Ridge”
“Moves to the front in Argonne Forest for attack of 1-2 November”
“Foch gives terms with 72-hour armistice for German answer”
“Armistice officially declared”
“” 1919
“- Discharged from the U.S. Army at Gievres
- Discharge Depot after duties at Bendorf and Coblenz with the Army of Occupation and release for studies at University of Toulouse”
“Begins senior year at Yale”