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ORDERS TO GOWHEN KILLEDCompany ft[ Commander In Letter to Parents of Cecil Conley Tells How Young Hai^was Instantly KilledBy Piece of Bursting BbelLCecil Conley met his death on March 9 while waiting with his com-: panions in the trenches for orders to go over the top.” A piece of shrapnel hit the young soldier in the neck and death was InBtantaneouBr ^This Isthe word which came this morning toMr. and Mrs. O. O. Conley, parents of Cecil, from Capt. Ross of Company M.In ■ his letter written March 17,| Capt. Ross says;“We were under severe shell fire*tl waiting for the signal ‘to go over the] c top/ when he was struck in the neck;i by a small piece of shell and d^d al-] most iRRtBPUy- I can understand*s Low you feel and how distressed his'i, mother must be, hut the fortunes o?[ ( war are in other handB than ours and |ectlBatltlsifinit seemed tjie Divine will that hej, . Ccahould go. Cecil was a splendid boy,j always willing to do his task cheer-; fully. His conduct was always of the; best and I know that for him ‘all 18j l well/ Ho gave his iife for tlie cause | j of right and justice, that our own ]land might be free and our homes safe: gfrom this menace of Germanism. His' \body rerata in a little graveyard near a French village just back of the linos.”
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Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Thu, Apr 25, 1918
Page 5
Full Page
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