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By ANDE YAKSTISTelegraph staff writer________________________________________________ALTON — Allen Bevenue of Alton was an unsung hero in World War I.He fought the Germans in trench warfare across France, but his exploits never made the official Army records. He was a foot soldier in an all-black infantry company in 1917.“Allen and his black comrades were forgotten soldiers,” said Army veteran Sylvester Woodfork of Alton. “They never got the credit that white soldiers did.”Woodfork is president of Allen Bevenue American Legion Post No. 354, a black post named in honor of the late World War I veteran.Bevenue, Quincy Adams and brothers Lyman and Abe Hickman were fresh off the battlefields of France when they came home to Alton in 1919 and□ See LEGION, Page A-2The Telegraph/JOHN BADMANSylvester Woodfork, left, is president of Allen Bevenue American Legion Post No. 354, and Floyd Arbuckle Is a past president.
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Alton Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Mon, May 25, 1992
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