CHRONOLOGY OF AMOS N. WILDER’S
WORLD WAR I SERVICE

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1916

Enlists in New York as volunteer ambulance driver
— 26 SEPTEMBER
Sails for France
— 21 OCTOBER
Begins three-month assignment, American Ambulance Hospital in Paris (“the Paris Service”)
— 6 NOVEMBER

1917

Transfers to American Field Service (AFS)
— 31 JANUARY
Begins three-month assignment, AFS Section 2, at the front in the Argonne, west of Verdun
— 7 FEBRUARY
United States enters war against Germany
— 6 APRIL
Begins seven-day leave in London and the Lake District
— 16 MAY
Following reenlistment in AFS, departs Paris for Macedonia and service with the Army of the Orient
— 7 JULY
Begins assignment with AFS Section 3, attached to Second Serbian Division, encamped at Bistrika, Serbian Front
— 3 AUGUST
Departs Salonika for Paris from AFS in Paris
— 19 OCTOBER
Released from AFS in Paris
— 15 NOVEMBER
Enlists in Paris as private in U.S. Army, assigned to Field Artillery Training School, Valdahon
— 26 NOVEMBER

1918

Reassigned at Valdahon to A Battery, Seventeenth Field Artillery, Second Division; promoted to corporal
— 2 JANUARY
Departs Valdahon for the front, Rupt Sector, southeast of Verdun
— 8 MARCH
Division rushed to Chateau-Thierry/Belleau Wood defense to repel massive German thrust toward the Marne and Paris
— 1 JUNE
Regiment placed in reserve during Second Battle of the Marne
— 7-8 JULY
Begins forced march for Soissons/Viller-Cotterets mobilization and decisive attack of 18 July
— 15 JULY
Division rusticated near Nancy
— 29 JULY
Hospitalization, convalescent camps, influenza quarantine in southwest France
— SEPT. – OCT.
American-led victory at St.-Mihiel
— 12-13 SEPT
Returns to A Battery behind the front at Blanc Mont Ridge
— 20 OCTOBER
Moves to the front in Argonne Forest for attack of 1-2 November
— 31 OCTOBER
Foch gives terms with 72-hour armistice for German answer
— 8 NOVEMBER
Armistice officially declared
— 11 NOVEMBER

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
— 28 JUNE
Begins senior year at Yale
— SEPTEMBER