An amusing reminiscence written by an anonymous Doughboy recalling his days as an M.P. in war-torn France during the First World War:
“Now that it is all over I wonder what did I gain from my experiences as an M.P. in the great Army of Newton Baker’s Best?…Watching the dawn coming rosily up over snow-clad barracks roofs and rows of tents; informing careless privates, sergeants, lieutenants and even majors to ‘button that there button’; listening to the dull bang-slamming of artillery barrages on crossroads; jotting down the names of high-spirited young men found in cafés at the wrong hours -such things aren’t of much lasting value.”
Click here to read an article about the sexually-transmitted diseases among the American Army of W.W. I – and the M.P.s in particular…
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