[Genealib] WW I query

[Gwyneth Duncan]

Wild guess - how about Philippine Territory?  The Philippines were a US 
territory at that point.

Gwyneth

--On Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:17 PM -0500 "Hayes, Alice" 
<ahayes at crystallakelibrary.org> wrote:

> I have a patron who is stumped by notes she has found regarding an
> individual who was in the army preceding WWI.  This individual enlisted
> in the Army on October 24, 1914 and was in the service for some 5 years.
>
> Two separate notes that she has found regarding his enlistment record
> have notations that are similar (she assumes they were copied from the
> same document) but she cannot decipher exactly what is written (because
> of the script) nor can she interpret what the notation means.
> The first notation reads:  Left US for P T (or J--this is where the
> script confuses her) 12/5/1914
> The second notation reads:  Arrived US from P T (or J) 10/8/1917
>
> She knows that he was in France from 1918-1919 and was eventually
> discharged in June 1920.  Her question is: What is the destination
> between 1914  and 1917.
> Any help on this would be appreciated.  Thank you.
>
>
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