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Archduke Assassination
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. His death was the event that sparked the chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I. Then Russia intervened against Austria-Hungary by mobilizing its Army in favor of its ally, Serbia on July 30, 1914. In response to this move, the rest of the European Great Powers mobilizes, being one of the main causes of the outbreak.On August 4, 1914, Germany invaded Belgium with the purpose of attacking France. -
Lusitania Sinking
Germany declared a war zone in the waters around the U.K. on February 4,1915, in response to a North Sea military blockade. On May 7,1915, the British ship Lusitania was sunk by Germany, killing 1,128 people including 128 Americans. The disaster led United States to get involved in the World War I. -
Battle of Verdun and Somme
The Battle of Verdun, being the longest and bloodiest offensive of the war, launched by Germany on February 21,1916. Followed by that, the British and French troops launched their own offensive in July 1,1916, the Battle of the Somme. -
U.S. enters the War
At the beginning of 1917 the U.S. was still neutral. On April 6,1917 the United States officially entered World War I on France and Britain’s side. Later, Congress declared war against Austria-Hungary on December 7,1917. -
Roy Crowdy Avery
Roy Crowdy Avery was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, but his home state is Tennessee. He served for the Army in the Belleview Hospital Unit; Sanitary Corps during 1917-1919, England; Vichy, France; Baccarat, and France. He participated in the World War, 1914-1918. -
Observations
July 1,1917, Roy left his experiment for 4 to 5 hours. When he came back, he was impressed with the results, the organism was growing rapidly and when he looked at it was C He covers it up and the next day the same thing happened. -
Life in the Army
Life in the Army was boring and the routine was deadly. They had to be up by 5:45 am every morning. Make beds and clean up around. After inspection they had a drill, and were assigned duties to each men and to the groups. Then he started working on an experiment and dedicated his time to work for the Army as a scientist and not a soldier. -
Serum
July 1,1917, Row C. Avery and his brother had therapeutic serum value for type 3. Their method was to inject the patients spectrum into the abdomen of a mouse and wait until the organism kill the animal. They would know if a patient was type 3 because they would have a 45% chance of survival. -
Bellevue Hospital Unit
n July 3, 1917, was when Roy C. Avery volunteered to serve for the Bellevue Hospital Unit. He took a six-week course to commissioned officers to rank of colonel on down to lieutenant on the bacteriological of war wounds. After he passed the course he went back to the Armory and to his old routine. Later, the unit offered him a project to work on. -
Research Project
The Institute offered him a research project, so he set up his experiment, in the experiment he had to determine whether he could add anything to the differentiation between the three groups of known pneumococci at that time. He didn’t think that radical and impressive changes would happen in the experiment. -
First Lieutenant
On February 20,1918, Roy went to N.Y. Academy of Medicine to take an examination for a commision as a first lieutenant and passed the examination. -
Hobbies
April 20, 1918, Roy would spend his time by reading, studying French and looking over notes. He would also follow some orders. -
During the War
April 30,1918, the sky was red with glare from the guns. There was constant and violent explosions. The Germans were firing shells into the other valley. Soldiers would come wounded. They had no sleep because of the terrible noise. Heavy dropped bombs kept all day. -
World War I Ends
On July 15, 1918, the Second Battle of Marne was the last large German offensive. Germany collapsed against the Allied troops. The war ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. All nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. Later the U.S would commemorate this day as an Armistice Day, and then change it to Veteran’s Day. -
Roy’s Job at the Front
On July 1, 1918, Roy was at the front because his job was to tell the physicians when they might sew up the wounds of their patients because sewing up the wound without knowing what was in it would be risky and the work would have to be broken down again. The he and McNeil went to no man’s land and the enemy started shooting at them. They started to crawl faster and faster to get away. -
No Man’s Land
On July 1,1918, Roy was at the Baccara laboratory, an Army laboratory up at the front, they sent him helper, Captain McNeil from Waco, Texas. They finished the work and went to no man’s land because it was 3 to 4 miles away from the laboratory. These area was not serve by any other unit between the enemy lines and their hospital, but the ambulance men would go into the trenches and got the boys to the hospital. -
Armistice Day
Armistice was signed on November 11,1918 at 11a.m. People were excited, bells rung,the town was decked of flags and crowds. The next day, November 12, 1918, Roy had a very bad headache. Then on November 16 through the 19th,1918, he was admitted to a hospital as a patient with influenza. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28,1919. The Treaty was written by the Allies and almost no participation by the Germans to prevent another war. Germany was blamed for the war and had to pay for reparations and was forced to take full responsibility for starting the war.
