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LUBBOCK, LUBBOCK COUNTY,STERLING M. PEEKKILLED IN FRANCE■ Las*, week, Claude C. Peek receiv-j • ed word of the death of his brother, j \ Sterling M. Peck, in France. The : i I date of his death was given by theirIBGovernment as July 25th. Mr. Peeki?;ckn/red*»in10?was a member of Ambulance corps and it was while on duty in that department that he paid the supreme sacrifice, of giving his life foY the defense of his country. i iMr. Peek was born December 18, ja 189-3. He worked in Lubbock for a number of months ar.d was an employee of the Avalanche for a ti-me. He went from Lubbock to Austin and entered the State University, end* it was while attending the University that he enlisted in tlm government’s service. His date of enlistment being some time ir. July 1917, and in April he was transferred to France !*ufVc!,r,iand had been serving in the Ambu- aiil-1C-fu!£0ndckn-•e-lanee corps since that time.The following letter written to his brother just ten days before the date of his death, wiil be interesting to our readers:France, July 5 —Dear Bud:—Can i p you imagine we pushing a pen in No i Man’s Land on your birthday? NofbFi £-1 am not exactly in No Man’s Land. -'but just about as near to it as Frits'lidusicthe' Ed-n-heofP-Tg0filikes for an ambulance to go Sometimes we put one over on him and j £ go closer, but if he finds us up there 1 j he addresses his compliments to us I ^ in the form of a sp.ell and drops it j p into one of those mail boxes which i p has powder in them. In this man-) ner we are politely informed that our i presence is not wanted in the ex- ^ act locality in which we are standing ' p, If we don’t take the hint pretty quick,; „ he makes use of the same mail sys-j g ^ tom to urge us to move and, in fact, jp | usually become? so insistent that ^ j sometimes we really have to move v [or he collects his- rent. Of course arguments like these are necessarily one sided, since ambulances. being non-combatants aren't provided with the particular kind of mail boxes mentioned above. Otherwise he might not be able to be so independent with his demands. Don’t you think he shows poor business policy to take advantage of anyone that wa If he keeps on such outrages he i* apt ;;'|to loose lots of friends and go bank-1. rupt, don’t you think? As a certain Colonel I know says, “I never did iike the-------anyway.” CI1 Well, Claud, I can’t tell you just!®*1r I where I am, but I don’t think the'^1 I 1y Censor would object to me saying _as'thai the Germans hold Chnteau-[(i j Thierry, just above here. The main, jthmii you want to know is that I am j ^still well and unharmed. j ^ 'So long, | Tlt;| Pvt. STERLING M. P’£EK, A mb ; Blt;t, I Co. No 5., Amor. Ex. Forces. j! Pi:ilTOatrv•neilstDtUhidiclmo\czpiTiClititId
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Lubbock Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Sep 12, 1918
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