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EThe;edek,es?reofnelotTHE PLAINSi • UTHEY STORMED AND TOOK SEEMINGLY IMPREGNABLE STRONGHOLDS OF THE GERMANS IN FRANCE :al.Ofic-iThe Distinguished Service Crow for Extra Ordinary Heroism sn Ac- tIon » the Highest Honors Paid Any Members of theA. E. F. and Indicates Bravery of Our Boys./a-plc?or,soThe following article and . letter'any personal vanity but to show you et- ■ will he interesting to Lubbock peo-pnd ,my_ other friends’at home thati'll.... pie in as much as it is about Plains ;thjs Amarillo company which I was ses : people and ;t is the company in which^commanding that day was ::i thei . . ! ■ I *» 1 1 «v» I ■ n n n r 4 I. _ T . . I. I. 1. f c I' 1 A I ■ - f . . A . I r.tv. [a number of the I.ubbock boys took ik-' parti It reads:its f Captain Thomas D. Barton of Amain- ril'o. since promoted to major, butthick of one of the fastest litt'i lights that has been pulled off'on thi \?M--ei'n front in somt time. 'Can Give No Detail*.:he then commanding a company com-j. The‘ censor regulations do not ■ er-i posed of Amarillo and Lubbock men. \V* Retails as to casualties either j-;nas been decorated with the D«-!^mlier or by name, but this rom jiineuished Service Cross for “extra7jmUnicatipn being official you mav ST .ordinary heroism in action when he irest'assured that Company Q • stormed anlt;l took a seemingly inipreg: ,eal service, md nable stronghold of the Germans in L n°t know that any of lay |the St. Etienne region, capturing a personal friends, were killed or ~it- ‘score of machine guns and many pris- verely wounded, for a great many of io- j oners and later, although all his of- -n' original company that you knew : ficers bad been lost advanced through jhad been commissioned, transferred ril-Ja terrific advance to the furtherest |arul scattered throughout the divisionsawyourse~ew : point cf the day's battle.This is the highest honor which ius . has yet been paid any member of the n’V; American Expeditionary Forces in ily;France and is indicative, not only of L’d.-the heroism of Capt. Barton, but of ed |l:is Amarillo and Lubbock boys whoI followed him forward.he| Two accounts of the affair were j received here yesterday; one was a !modest one from Capt. Barton, hun-, * FI ^ and the second anES account sent by Major W. H. Brownjell to George F. Lindsav.which was lucky; or you may have had a good many friends in this list.Captain Simpson was in command of the company from Clarendon which was the other assaulting company for our regiment. The stories of both companies are very much alike.For a long range scientific fightfer. the German is hard to beat, but.when you walk into them and make it apersonal difficulty, as has character-a different story. You know I al» . . w od; A telegram has also been receiv.ryjcd here by George F. Robertson, 9Q-1he; Monroe street, that his Sjon, Geo. F.edjJr., formerly a Santa Fe shops eigh , ploye and well known here, who hada. been previously reported missing fnjhction. had died the’ death of a heroized the American fighters, it makesI I 1 « mm •'j last August upon the field of battle/S:%# • . .4 • •fenlelt;J: Medal,ways claimed that individually the German was a coward and I am still of the. sapip opinion.'•■I- Ar«»,Wo are now in a. training ^rea inFrance, speculating on’wheji we; will be sent back to God’s coun-this .you'-know, as muc.K aboul^ 'do: .It ‘seems.likely.ItKat V.,wei:ave? been chosen aK nr»P Kf fv.n
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Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 02, 1919
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