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BOYS COMING HOMEa « • *•»-,* • • 4 •* ; *■ !-■■■--■ « • .Several Members of Old Co. F j Return With Famous Red Arrow Division This .Week.THE 121slffl.fi. CO. ARRIVESLarge Number of Door County Boys Reach Boston With Outfit. Others Come Home.i, * i » , ■Several Door county soldiers, members of the'Red Arrow Division, the famous Thirty-second, arrived home withiil the week.The boys returned home with other members of the division that landed in New York on May Btli., The first one to report was LloydWalker, Co. G, 12Sth Inf., who arrived• • * * —In the city Friday evening, having been muBtered out of the scrvico at CompGrant on Thursday, May 15th.Lloyd was one of -the members ofCo. F, Fifth Wis. Vol., and accompan-. . •led the company to Camp MacArthur and from there to Franc*.After his arrival in France lie was in the hospital. f6r four months and on bis discharge was sent to a special. •,, i * .training camp for casualtf'at St. Agnes.He was then sent to Hospital 51 wherei *.,*• • * * *lie was engaged iu the operating room until the end of the war. Hero ho saw many grewsome eights and can attest to the-nerve and checrfuluess of the American soldiers. The first par„t of December lie1 went into the undetached servlco with the French.• J i * , • . , ■talcing cure of American prisoners of *War. He went into Germany with a hunch of others to got prisoners ofwar who had fallen into the hands ofthe Huns and who wore unable to rldo 1ft the railroad cars. These were taken Ip ambulances. This particular priHon that he visited was nt Itastalt, which was located alongside of an ammunition factory. This was done to prevent the factory from being blownup,by Allied airmen as to do so wouldfuiye. killed the prisoners. Ho says that ’ during the period of time that the GennanvS thought they would win, tlie prisoners wero treated most shamefully, but'when it begun to look as though they would Iobc, they improved conditions wondorfully.Another Door*county boy to arrive was Jolm Gudmundson of Washington Island, who reached the city on Wednesday morning On his way to his home in the northern part of the county. John was a member of Co. G, 128th Inf., also and Joined Co. F when it was formed in this city in the early Hummor of 1017. Ho went across withthe 128t.h in February and wua in theservice in France for over a year.Ho’' was gt thq Alsace front with the division and saw his first battle at Chateau Thierry. After thLs fight he was selected to fill the position of company clerk and saw* no activo fighting, although ho was constantly in the danger zone. He accompanied the company thru oil Its campaigns on the Solssona, Verdun, Meuse and Ar-gonne fronts. He says that the division was engaged for twenty consocu-tivo days oh the latter front at oneBtretch. . . ..If© cam© homo wjth the division arriving in New York on May Stli. Others who came across at the samo time were Andrew Bathkc and Ed Tosten-Bon of this city, Victor. Corblsler of Brussels, George Fellows of® Clay Banka, and John and George Culli-gan and John and Augu$ Wassorbach of Algoma. all of whom were members of old Co. F. He says that this Is; about all there Is left in the 128th! Inf.. of the Co. F boys and that at one time he wan the only one in the company, all the others having been sent to tho hospital, but were later sent back to the unit Francis Propsom and Hubert Bourgeois, numbered among flic overseas rets that Teturned to their, homes In this city during the week. The hoys arrived homo Monday evening. They cav over a year’s service in Franco with the famous 32d division, being members of one of the Kenosha companies, .enlisting in the guard company in that city while employed there, shortly after the IT. S. entered thewar, ■ * ■• ■ •Th© .121nt Machine Gun company of the Thirty-second division arrived 1n Boston on Thursday last, May 15th.There are between thirty and forty Door county boyn In this outfit Among ■ those who have been heard from are; Bernard LaMcre, William Zfvney, Ola Christianson, Eiger DeGodt, H. J. DesJardins and others, all of whom weremembers of Co. F, the pride .of Doorcounty. . \ — ~Continued cm Page Eight
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Sturgeon Bay Door County News
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, US
Thu, May 22, 1919
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