Billeting Troops 1915

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This is a Receipt for Billeting troops paid on Sept. 3rd 1915 in the sum of $50 Francs to a Madame Girouard.
Unfortunately this gives no indication of where she was so we cannot take a good guess at what troops
where there at the time. But we always hear of troops being billeted and never how it's paid for.

 

[Gspragge]

Aside from my forgetting my numbered grenade sequence my translating is also poor !
This is a receipt for Madame turning in 50 Gold Franks in exchange for 50 paper francs ~
This was done because the French government had to pay in Gold for munitions
made in the U.S. and they had to get it where ever they could and one way was
for citizens to exchange what ever gold money they had for paper .
So indirectly it is Ordnance related as it help pay for all those export U.S. made
munitions we all collect.