Thursday, August 23, 2018

Five N.C. Soldiers Reported Killed in Action This Week, 1918

“Weekly Casualties Review,” from the Hickory Daily Record, Aug. 22, 1918

Killed, Wounded, Prisoners and Missing as officially announced during the past week for North Carolina and Richmond County.

The war news the past week has each day shown an improvement. Our troops and our Allies are giving the German armies no rest, but are attacking at many points.

Before the Allied offensive began on July 18th, the total length of the battle line, from Switzerland to the North Sea, was 250 miles. NOW by steady gains the line has been shortened to 200 miles!

The Germans have at last been driven back to the lines they occupied when they began their offensive March 21st. Lassignay was captured Wednesday, and Noyon is threatened, and will likely be in ur hands within a few days.

Gen. March, our Chief of Staff, Saturday told Congress that by sending 4,000,000 troops to France by next summer, we can end the war in the Fall of 1919! This is the first intimation given out by officials as to when we may expect the war to end. It is significant.

The total American losses in killed, wounded and injured to date number 22,567.

NORTH CAROLINA      
    
Killed in Action

Joe S. Whitsen, Rosemary
Council Soles, Taber
James Alley, Sparta
Corporal Hubert Lee Moore, Canton
Corporal Alvin R. Canady, Bug Hill

Wounded Severely/Missing

Corporal Dewey R. Roark, Ashland
John Brown, Hayes, missing
Morris Watkins, McLeansville, missing
Sergeant Wm. H. Springs, Mars Hill
Perry W. English, Faust
Sergeant Hannable Davis, Marshall, missing
Sergeant Clarence R. Suddreth, Lenoir
Corporal Clyde Evins Lupton, Newbern
Sergeant W. Goodman, Salisbury
Jestie William Stallings, Gilky
Jesse Avery, Duke

Lieut. Elliott B. Clark of Weldon who three weeks ago had been reported as killed in action is not dead. Instead he is rapidly recovering from a wound in the right shoulder received July 19th.

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