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■APAGE TWOH'rLocation of a Few CentraliaiivSoldier Boys on Nov. 1191918“Where were you twelve yearsago today?Twelve years ago today found Centralla’a soldier and sailor boys who were engaged in fighting the great World War far from theirhomes and firesides.While most of them were withoutfits stationed on the battlefields of France or training in military camps in America. . there. —With the detached service in theofficers* training camp at Laun-*. gress, France.jk S. G. Elliston, 405 MelroseiNearJarves. France, with the 26th Co., 1st Div. Corps, or the original 39th Div.Frank Kalber’tamp, 115 South Beech—I was on guard duty at Le Mans, France, having gone over w’ith Co. I., 84th Div., but upon ar-iwere a few w'ho were serving in , rival there it was broken up.far off areas where their services were needed.Today twelve years after the Armistice was signed and a day set a^ide for the obsei vance of that great event finds practically all of these boys returned to theirM. L. Trout. 216 East Noleman I was at Camp Eustis, Va., with Bat. D, 34th Coast Artillery Corps.Edw'ard A. Miller. 101 South Lincoln-I w’a.s sick in a hospital at Louisville, Ky., then with A Company, 326 Machine GunnersiInative city where they continue Battalion.the work being useful citizens. j George Raines, 728 East. Broad-Some cf them have engaged in way—We were moving constantly business for themselves. others ! and on the 11th were between have found employment and a few Metz and Hindenburg. 1 was with have moved elsewhere to live. To- j the 42nd Div.day, the day set aside to revere I Robert Remade, 814 North Pine these boys was quietly observed I—On the morning of Nov. 11, I was here. 1 at LaForges in the Argonne woodsBusiness places closed and this and that afternoon moved to Bric-Iafternoon the boys and their w'ives accepted an Invitation to be the guests of the Centralia Township High School at the football game. They marched with the High School Band to ‘he field where they were admitted free.“Where were you twelve years ago today?The answer is found as given by a number of Centralia’s boys but far from all of them in the following:to the de- 1any. We wrere sent up tachment.Whittle Ross, 424 South Sycamore—At La Four de Pares on ' : the edge of the Argonne forest with the 38th Div. going to join | the 77th. jWendell Wpbster, 508 South Elm ' |—I was sick with influenza at' JCamp Bradley, Peoria, then with Company A, Section B.E. A. Niemeier, 716 South Maple —At Romorantis, France, with thefciiHarry Alcorn, 503 South Syoa- 3rd Regt., of Air Service Mechan-more- On a hike in the Argonne In France. / member of Co I, 154 Inf. 27th New York Div.» C. C. Birr, 1026 East Broad-Iftta(vccht!way I was with Co. I, 19th Inf. inSan Antonio, Tex.Harley Queen, .417 South Elm — I was in the Navy on the Battleship “Kansas” chasing submarineson the Pacific Coast.RuJph Alcorn, 610 East Kerr — I was with Co. C„ 132nd Machine Gun. Bat., 36th Div., in France getting ready to go back to the front Norman Baker, 338 North Poplar- I was at Camp Grant in the 12th Replacement unit. Previously I had been in the Navy.Wallace Hart, 131 North Ixreust— I was in the 101st ObservationPles connected with the Second Div., g assembling airplanes and test fly- a Ing. j tlWilliam Pick, 431 College-With ! b A Company, 29th Div., Machine J or Gunners, a short distance back of Verdun, FranceC. I. Wheeler, 535 West Second-In Camp Green, North Carolina, with the quartermaster corps division of the base hospital.Ralph Pixley, 631 West Broadway—At Camp Meucon, France, with the 139th Field Artillery band.Earl Waggoner, 311 North Sycamore—I was on a furlough at Paris France, arriving there at 3 p. m.. and didn’t know that the Armistice had been signed. I was with Bat. F,Aeici 11 ai in laSi!»«Plt;J(be*c
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Centralia Evening Sentinel
Centralia, Illinois, US
Tue, Nov 11, 1930
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