Robert Schalles Memorial: Time Line

In Memory of
Robert E. Schalles

Time-Line

The calendar pictured above was in my Grandfather's boxes of World War One material. No dates are marked. The only writing in the calender is of a list of men to whom my grandfather loaned money--a fair amount in 1918 terms.

What follows is a time-line(in progress) that I'm constructing from my grandfather's letters, documents and any history that I can find about his ambulance company.

1893
April 27: Born in Cortez, Colorado
1917
June 5: Registers for the Military in Cortez, Colorado.
July 10: First day in Military
September 27-29: Las Cruces, New Mexico: Dona Ana County Fair
September 30: Camp Baker, El Paso, Texas
October 5: Las Cruces, New Mexico
October 7: Camp Baker, El Paso, Texas
November 24: On Train headed east in Texas
November 25: 11:00 a.m. San Antonio, Texas(stopover)
December 21: Arrive in France
1918
February 1: In France
March 30: France: At the front in a dugout
April 5(?)France: Helps bury three German soldiers
April 8: France: At the front
May 12: Writes Mother's Day letter
June ?: France: Gets button from German pilot who was shot down.
June 7-9(?): 48 hrs at the Front/"difficult" & "exciting conditions"
June 11: France: Back from the front a couple days ago.
July 11: France: Watches French Farmers harvest grain.
August 18: In France
October 4(?): Wounded, shrapnel in lower left leg above ankle.
October 8: American Red Cross Hospital, No. 5 in Paris.
December 29: Back with Company in Engers, Germany.

1919
Feb. 8: Engers am Rhien(sp?), Germany
March 26: Engers
July 2: Sayn, Germany
August 3-9: Trip home to America on U.S.S. Imperator
1992
January 22: Died in El Cajon, California