Research: Military: Records Relating to World War I
Records Relating to World War I
Appendix B --- List of Series Available on Microfilm
A0412. World War I Veterans' Service Data and Photographs, 1917-1938 (bulk 1919-1924). 33.4 cubic feet (53 microfilm reels)
A3166. Working Files for a Publication on New York in World War I, 1917-1925. 1.5 cubic feet (6 microfilm reels)
A4234. Correspondence Files, 1917-1918. .8 cubic foot (3 microfilm reels)
A4235. Correspondence of County Home Defense Committees, 1917-1918. 2 cubic feet (5 microfilm reels)
A4237. Correspondence with Council of National Defense, 1917-1918. .8 cubic foot (3 microfilm reels)
A4238. Health and Hospital Resources Files from the Adjutant General's Office, 1917. 2 cubic feet (5 microfilm reels)
A4239. United States Public Service Reserve Correspondence Files, 1917-1918. .8 cubic foot (3 microfim reels)
A4240. Correspondence with State Agencies, 1917-1918. .3 cubic foot (1 microfilm reel)
A4241. Subject Correspondence Files, 1917-1918. .5 cubic foot (1 microfilm reel)
A4242. Administrative and Correspondence Files, 1917-1918. .5 cubic foot (2 microfilm reels)
L0031. National Civil Liberties Bureau Subpoenaed Files, 1917-1919. 5.25 cubic feet (10 microfilm reels)
L0035. Newspaper Clippings Files, 1919. 14 cubic feet (28 microfilm reels)
L0036. Suspected Radical Propaganda Files, 1890-1919. 10.9 cubic feet (31 microfilm reels)
Aftermath
By Siegfried Sassoon
Have you forgotten yet? ...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked awhile at the crossing of city ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heavens of life; and you're a man reprieved to
go,
Taking your peaceful share of
Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same-- and war's a bloody game ...
Have you forgotten yet?
Look down, and swear by the slain of the war that you'll never forget.
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at
Mametz--
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench--
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, "Is it all going to happen again?"
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack--
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your
men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads-- those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?
Have you forgotten yet? ...
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget.
March, 1919
Siegfried Sassoon: The War Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1983. George Sassoon, 1983.
