Lt. Farmer Of Wilson Home From War, May 6, 1919

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., May 6, 1919

Made Glorious Record

Lieut. I.H. Farmer, son of the late J.B. Farmer of this city, who has just returned from the front, made a fine record in the late war and saw much fighting. He was fortunate enough not to have received a scratch through the hard work of his command, being continuously on the Meuse-Argonne front with the 80^th from September 25^th to October 12^th, and the exposure incident thereto placed him in a hospital where he remained from October 25^th to December 4^th.

At the time he was taken sick, he was in line of promotion and so recommended by his Colonel, Charles Keller, in the following words: “This officer has shown a special aptitude for the command of troops in combat. He is deserving of promotion and would have been recommended had it not been for his evacuation for sickness on October 25^th.

Lieut. Farmer was with the 80^th and was sandwiched with the New Zealanders and the British and Colonial troops in Belgium. Afterwards they were assigned to the work at St. Mihiel. Finding there would be no work at that point the command was sent into the Meuse-Argone fight, where the enemy was turned in its march on Paris and the work was very hot.  He was in command of Company 1, 317^th Infantry, and his troops attained all their objectives and then some.