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(Continued from Page One) 10 a letter was received from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wishart, High St., of which the following is an extract: “T am in a hospital just now and am getting on pretty well, I had a shock and it bungled my nerves up pretty well, but in a week or two, after I get rested up, I will be all right again. Did you notice in the papers how we ‘trimmed old Fritzie up’ last week I was in the first wave to go over, and wouldn’t have missed it for anything. But a lot of our fellows suffered for it ‘too, and I was lucky enough to come through without a scratch. Then we had to stay there and IT had an accident. ‘Now everybody, please don’t worry about me, as I am O. K. and in good hands and will be O. K. again before you know it. “It’s just my nerves, that’s all. I suppose it must have worried you all when you heard. I’m taking it for granted that they sent word from Ottawa, but don't worry. T see old U. is in it now. Good luck to them.” Déonald Wishart was born in Glas gow, June 21, 1895. ‘He received his education at Dunbarton Academy, Clyde Banks Hligh School and at tended Glasgow Technical College. He then went into the employment of the great Clyde shipbuilding firm of William Beadmore Co., where he learned to be a draughtsman. He came to America and was employed in the Fore River shipyard at Quincy, Mass., and later came to the draughting rooms at the Bath Iron Works. After the outbreak of the war, he went to Montreal to work on government work in the Vicker’s yard, and from there he enlisted in the 148th Battalion, C. E. F., at tached to Magill University. After nine months’ training in Canada and three months more in England, he went to France just before last Christmas as a volunteer to help fill the depleted ranks of the 24th Battalion, C.I.F., and on April 24th the telegram came from Ottawa say ing that he had been removed to No. 4 Stationary Hospital on April 13, suffering from shell-shock. His people are members of Central Church and while he was at home he was actively interested in the work of the church and the Sabbath school. He is also a member of the American Marine Draughtmen’s So ciety. Bath may well be proud of the noble service of one of its adopted sons, the first of its young men to suffer for the glorious cause.
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Sat, May 19, 1917
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