1st (Gondrecourt) Training Area, January 1-23, 1918, First Division

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French 155's are loaded and fired. Firewood is cut. The 1st Engineers and the 2nd Field Signal Bn. march from the camp. The 1st Engineers construct a bridge. Everett Colby, Julius Lincoln, E.F. Trefz, Roscoe Mitchell, John Lord, and Daniel Read (members of the Commission for Relief in Belgium) visit the camp; witness a demonstration of a 37-mm gun; examine an airplane; view bayonet and hand grenade practice; and review the 16th and 18th Inf. Reg'ts marching in snow.

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