From The Badin Bulletin, Albemarle, N.C.,
June 1919 issue.
Returned Soldiers
The picture above shows three of our returned soldiers who
saw considerable fighting on the French battlefields. All three of these men
came to Badin about the same time, in May of 1916, from Maryville. They left
Badin about the same time for the army, and now have gotten back again almost
together.
Corporal A.L. Culverhouse was with the 318th
Field Signal Battalion. He sailed for France on July 13, 1918, and saw active
service in the Somme offensive, from September 21 to October 21. “Culvey’s”
work did not take him into the front line trenches, but he did get up close
enough to get a good dose of Hun gas.
Cook Frank C. Hambey was with Battalion C, 114th
Field Artillery. Frank sailed for France on June 13, 1918, got into action
August 26 at St. Mihiel, and was shifted to the Argonne on September 15. He
went into action there on September 26, and was relieved on October 8, and went
to the Woevre front, where he was in action at the time the armistice was
signed, arriving in the United States on March 23, 1919.
Private G.C. Brown was in Company D, 125th
Infantry, Thirtieth Division. He sailed May 12, 1918, and saw action at Ypres,
July 21 to September 2, and in the Somme offensive, September 21 to October 21,
arriving in the United States on April 11.
We are glad to have all of these boys back with us, and are
proud that they thought enough of Badin to head this way as soon as they were
able.
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