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LIEUT. PAT O’BRIEN ENLISTS AS PRIVATERefuses British Commission as Captain Because he Would Have toAct as Instructor.'i _- -ENTERS THE FOREIGN LEGIONLieutenant Pat O’Brien of Mo-menee, Illinois, a flyer, who escaped from a German prison camp, and delivered Chautauqua lectures in Indiana last summer, lias refused a commission as captain in the British royal flyers, because be would not have the opportunity to engage in active battle and has enlisted as a private in the foreign legion so that he can get some real fighting. News of his leaving for the bqttJe,£ront is contained In a clipping from the Momencc (111.) Press-Reporter, received Mr. and Mrs. Pan! Alien, both of whom are acquainted with Lieutenant OrBrien. . Lieutenant O'Brien was here fo^a short time as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Allei during the chautauqua last August, en route from Connersville', where he lectured at the chautauqua.According. to the Press-Reporter, Lieutenant O’Brien'is en'ronte to thewestern front to enter a /branch of. * #the service, .which would assure him that he would be assigned where things were happening. He refused a commission »as a captain, \ offered him by the British government, because he would not have the opportunity to fight but would \pct in the capacity as an instrnrtor* in ^flying, j The foreign legion^in which he enlist-j ed as A privat^is the mo'st eosmo- [private,*politan and mosWamousmilitary 01^; ganization invthe*world.\ s';--r *#£;lt;-
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Rushville Daily Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Mon, Oct 28, 1918
Page 3
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