University Men Enter the Service and Welfare Updates
Two Montana class of 1921 men join wartime service. Gust Dahlberg and Norton Worth enter naval and radio training efforts in Bremerton and Puget Sound yards. Welfare notes outline how inquiries travel via post offices and Red Cross. breach of rules brings prosecution risk. Bombardment insurance details reveal New York utility coverage of 50 million. Report includes stray odds about manpower, water, and local sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Montana
Gus
Air
William Worth
Iowa Avenue
Dahlberg
Ars
Pracer Treet
United States
Aus Red Cross
Marines Drill Lifeline of U S Training Camp
Private Arthur W. Filton describes brutal U S Marine training at a camp. Recounting 6:20 wakeups and 6:10 drills, long marches to the beach for swimming, and 14 weeks of intense work before Quantico, the letter highlights the demanding schedule and high expectations placed on recruits.
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United States Marine Corps
Arthur W. Filton
Atter Superior Company
Parts Island
Quantico
Rue de la Montana Named Busy Village Thoroughfare
A dispatch from France via Sergi E. F. Rue describes Rue de la Montana as the busiest street in a Montana village where the 163d infantry and the old Second Montana national guard regiment are quartered. Rue, a gas mask instructor, notes the courage of Montana troops at the front after training at Fort Harrison and Camp Greene before shipping to France last December.
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Camp Greene
France
Montana
In Flanders Fields Poem Sent By British Canadian Mission
Sergt Maj J J Falconer Haw received copies of Lieut Col John McCrae's famed war poem In Flanders Fields with a reply by Senator H E Negley. The poem, written at the front in spring 1915, reflects the trench front in Flanders with red poppies and crosses. The excerpt recalls the lark above the firing and the dead who once lived and loved.
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J. J. Falconer
Butte Haw
John McCrea
Flanders Fields
H. E. Negley
Indianapolis
Flanders’ Fields
Vimet
Nineteenth Battalion
Flanders
In Flanders Fields and Army Notes Amid War Call
Wartime verse echoes the Flanders Fields tribute with lines on courage and sacrifice. Army and Navy notes report recruits and movements at Camp Lewis, Camp Fremont, and Vancouver, including Ford Erford and Harvey Fluent, with details of local service entries and a church talk by Rev G W Thomas.
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Marine Corps
Hutte
Ford
John Erford
Iowa Avenue
Erford
Harvey A. Fluent
Ich
Vancouver
Wash
Tuswell
France
Lewis
G. W. Thomas
Cantonment
Mr. Thomas
Y.mc
Camp Fremont
Palo Alto
Cal
C. L. Bradbury
The
Marine
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Frince
Lord
Divisionp de Ane RI Obe
Dinfante
Yate Howell M. MacKay
Gus Dahlberg
Norton Worth
Butte
Bremerton, Wash
Gas and Electric Light
New York
W. E. Harper
Mr. W
Harper
West Park Avenue
Anaconda
3624 Infantry
Placer Street
Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Camp
Joseph P. Ray
Badten Tray
Regu
Portland
Camp Lewis
Paris Island
Amerion
HE. Negley
Britain
America
Elds
Army and Navy Notes
Pep
Leo Fine Corps
Chars Torte
Amalie
le Thomas
Anaconda Friends
Seut
Joseph Deatel
Hennesay
Centerville
Pittsburg
Town Avenue
Frank Campeau
Rialto
Division of Films
Committee On Public Information
George Creel
Uncle Sam
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