Read the Diary in Order

Read Margaret Sheldon’s diary from start to finish, in the order she wrote it. Each link below takes you to one day’s entry, from her departure from New York in September 1917 through her visit to occupied Germany in January 1919.

September 1917

📍 New York → Atlantic crossing → Bordeaux → Paris → Lorraine

October 1917

📍 Demange-aux-Eaux, Meuse department, France

November 1917

📍 Demange-aux-Eaux, Meuse department, France

December 1917

📍 Bure / Meuse department, France

January 1918

📍 Meuse department, near Demange-aux-Eaux, France

February 1918

📍 Near Menaucourt, Meuse department, France

March 1918

📍 Lorraine sector, near the front lines

April 1918

📍 Lorraine sector, France (frequent moves)

May 1918

📍 Picardy / Aisne sector, France

June 1918

📍 Noyers-Saint-Martin, Oise, France

July 1918

📍 Marne sector, France

September 1918

📍 Varennes-en-Argonne (Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins)

October 1918

📍 Fléville / Château-Chéhéry, Ardennes, France

November 1918

📍 Cornay / Châtel-Chéhéry (Armistice, November 11)

December 1918

📍 Cornay, Ardennes, France

January 1919

📍 Cornay → Paris → Soissons → Reims → Verdun → Koblenz, Germany