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HERE IS FIRST COMPLETE ROSTERIiBilOF DEFIANCE BOYS WHO SAILEDWFOR FRANCE WITH COMPANY GI PiI IInIHad the armistice not been signed when it was it is, cc *1 likely that very few of Company G would have returned; i to Defiance because orders had been issued for G Com-npany to go over the top the following morning, in eventJ the armistice was not signed, and capture 89 German IITmachine gun nests.(IIIDuring the war the old Defiance company had eleven11different officers. The company went into the terrible | Argonne battle with three officers and came out withtiilt;none.pHerewith follows a complete synopsis of the fifty j(ti| Defiance county boys who belonged to G Company whenC ' the organization sailed for^Franee last summer This I synopsis gives the present location of the boys.This;a j information was secured from Company G members atslsi Toledo: :o|('apt. A. B. DeKay. Transferred. ! Sergeant Ray Cubberlv. With Glr• nNow in France.company. Well.Lieut. Douty. Transferred. Now inCorporal Garrett A. Fitzwater.1]lidFrance.i Lieut. Herbert Anderson. RoseWounded in Argonne. Sept. 28. last.VsIn hosnital in France.i*from rank of private to lirst lieuten-dC\nt and had command of Company GSergeant Arthur F. Foelker. Within! when the organization went in battle,P i of Argonne forest. Was eommission-G company. Well.Corporal Raymond Slough. With Gnscompany. Well.r. iod captainthis time but wasCorporal Dewev G. Karnes. Wound-C -! mortally wounded Sept. 28. last, be-I11 sfore receiving: commission. Woundeded mArgonne, Sept. 28, last. Now j ]■miiviCi Corporal Melvin Schlosser. With G i ip_|in two places in right leg with ma-bullets. Refused to allow j c omIan •Cook James Campbell.ifr- h;me gutWell.;! 1ao stretcher bearers to carry him toIn hospitalwounded comrade lirst. Whena« , rear, directing them to care for an-id' stretcher bearers returned for him he3dead, thought 'do have expired!with pneumonia.Cook Harry B. Curt land. With GIcompany. Wella*ithI wa sfrom loss of blood and exposure-. Buried in little orchard Ih-u weenMechanic ('arl 11. Bristol. With Gcompany. Meehan ilt;Well.iAlvin P. Karr. With Gi‘.] lviory and Cierges, France.■a-Sergeant Albert ('. Hedricks. Well and still with G company.company.MechanicWeittClrovov Wisda. Wounded J (Iin Argonne. With G company. Re-1 jSergeant Otis D. Little. Well andcovered.still in France, being with an autoCorporal Byron Bennett. With Gunit.company. Well.IYSergeantAnhuiRothenbergc-7.Fred Brubaek. G company. Well.Transferred to F Company. Well.Corporal John M. Conrov. G comSergeant Henry A. Flentje. With Gpany. Well.ng company. Well.Jesse O. Essex. G company. Well.fi-lt;ISergeant Jesse D. Bates. With GVirgil H. Finney. G company. Well.he’company. Wounded. Well.John H. Funk. G company. Well.Sergeant John IL Small. Wounded.John Figley. Transferred to H comIn hospital at Camp Sherman.pa n y.led! Sergeant John W. Simendinger.Virile H. Hubbard. Wounded in:e-|With G company. Well.Argonne. In States.es,el:Sergeant Fred MoFeters. Killed inJohn Hale. Practically well fromi Argonne. Sept. 28. last.gas. G conVpany.;j Sergeant Harry R. King. In hos: Corporal Ezra J. Hanimon. G com-ijpital at Hoboken. Sicknan vWell.ireCorporal Wm. H. Dixon. Wounded. ; Clarence J. Hammersmith. Trans-ndtheIn Base Hospital 78. France.Corporal Charles * Sehellenbarger.ferred to Supply company.Corporal R. ('. Parcher.G oo info iT ransf erred.pany. Well.Sergeant Robert E. Anderson.Dewey Reynolds, G company. We'i.Denzil C. Smith. Wounded in Ar-17. With G company. Well.litsj Sergeant Orville Rangier. Killed- in i gonnp. Whereabouts unknown.\alu j Argonne. Sept. 28, last. Location of: Clayton French. G company. Well.nk j grave unknown.Anxious to get hack to Defiance andtn.totghCorporal Ralph Willis. Wounded in ! organize a base ball team to takeArgonne. In hospital.Bun’s Veterans across.Corporal Walter G. Wirick. Trans- j Christy Smith. G company. Welltouldferred to H company.Corporal Glenn H. Camp. Trans-aiul anxious for a cold bottle of Centennial Export.ferred to Supply company.Hollie J. Smith. Killed in Argonne.in
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Defiance Democrat
Defiance, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 17, 1919
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