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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Burial of Lt. Allan W. Douglass, 1918




BURIAL OF LIEUT. ALLAN W. DOUGLASS

Lieut. Allan W. Douglass, of Battery E, was killed near Limey on the morning of September 12, 1918. He was buried not far from where he fell. Colonel Cox and his orderly were the only members of the regiment present. The German prisoners in the picture dug the grave. A passing Y. M. C. A. man conducted the funeral service.
From Documenting the American South, online at https://docsouth.unc.edu/wwi/fletcher/ill37.html
This photo was used in a book called History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division by Arthur Lloyd Fletcher.


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