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Appendix A lists notable Oxford writers from 1829 to 1929; another gives the names of A.E.F. soldier-students at British universities in 1919.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2019

Appearing first in the Army’s newspaper “Stars and Stripes,” the poem was published in 1919 with 83 others by American Doughboys in “Yanks; A.E.F. Verse.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018

Pershing dove back into his career; he chased Pancho Villa with the Mexican Punitive Expedition a year later and took command of the A.E.F. in 1917.

From New York Times • May 12, 2018

“I wish that every officer and soldier of the A.E.F. would write a letter home on Mother’s Day,” Pershing declared.

From New York Times • May 12, 2018

The losses of the A.E.F. during the entire period of its activities up to November 18, 1918, were by death 53,160; the wounded numbered 179,625.

From The United States Since the Civil War by Lingley, Charles Ramsdell