Documents
Just a few U.S. newspaper articles about Vauquois:
- Official Reports of War Operations, Germany (New York Times, 2 March 1915)
- Official Reports of War Operations, Germany (New York Times, 3 March 1915)
- French Now Hold Key to Argonne (New York Times, 15 March 1915)
- Fierce Fight at Vauquois (New York Times, 15 March 1915)
- Win a 15-Day Battle: French Take Vauquois Hills after Desperate Fighting (Washington Post, 15 March 1915)
- Band Slaughtered As It Led Charge (New York Times, 27 June 1915)
- Band as War Heroes (Washington Post, 11 June 1916)
- 10 of 15 in Band Fell (Washington Post, 20 May 1917)
These are some short excerpts dealing with Vauquois that I have translated:
- "The Assault on Vauquois" (28 February - 5 March 1916) from La Grande guerre du XXe siecle (1915)
- Councillor of State Collignon, soldier in the 46th infantry
- Lettre d'un soldat
- Some images of Vauquois, including a Glorious Feet of Arms, and translations of captions
- Jean Arbousset, some poems dealing with Vauquois
- Image from La Baïonnette (Paris. 1915),
1917/07/28,
Source gallica.bnf.fr; caption reads:
The Attack at Vauquois. The 331st regiment. “By my word, those pigs are shooting at us from above.” - "Vauquois" from A History of Companies 5/1, 5/51 and 5/71 of the 1st regiment of engineers